aug 2, 1950 - New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures

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The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released in English in 1950.

8-day International Convention at Yankee Stadium
July 30 - Aug 6 1950
120,000 people
10,000 delegates from 67 lands
13,000 in the trailer camp (40 miles away)
3,000 baptized
40 convention releases

"When releasing the first volume on August 2, 1950, Brother N. H. Knorr told a convention audience: “More and more the need has been felt for a translation in modern speech, in harmony with revealed truth, and yet furnishing us the basis for gaining further truth by faithfully presenting the sense of the original writings; a translation just as understandable to modern readers as the original writings of Christ’s disciples were understandable to the simple, plain, common, lowly readers of their day.” He expressed the hope that this translation would spread its spiritual help to millions of people."

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