Married to the Cloth

 I was truly blessed with a great selection of Bibles to review for Thomas Nelson. Before my brother went overseas as a chef in the Middle East, he told me about the NET translation. As a nonnative English speaker it was a version he could understand and easily translate into the numerous languages he speaks. It is a great resource for communicating eternal truths. In 1995 the NET Bible translation project began at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature as an English version for distribution over the internet. Thus the “NET” Bible’s name. It was begun back when there was no free online Bible sites, like “pre-google” for those young  people who don’t remember the dark ages before internet, or what a BBS is. Bible translations have copyrights and limit the number of verses you can publish without paying royalties. This was a revolutionary idea to get the Bible online free to anyone. Another goal they had was to keep it continually updated and to make corrections as need