Source: cirosantilli/new-international-version
= New International Version
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Direct translation from oldest documents deemed reliable, originally in a mixture of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Interesting project.
This is notably opposed to the approach taken by many versions which were based on the <Septuagint>, which was a much earlier full-Greek translation.