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The Contemporary English Version or '''CEV''' (also known as '''Bible for Today's Family''') is a new Translation of the Bible into English , published by the American Bible Society . An anglicised version of it in British English was produced by the British And Foreign Bible Society , which includes metric measurements for the Commonwealth market. HISTORY The CEV project began as a result of studies conducted by Barclay Newman in 1985 into speech patterns used in Books , Magazines , Newspapers , and Television . These studies focused on how English was read and heard. This led to a series of test volumes being published in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Among the volumes published were ''Luke Tells the Good News About Jesus'' ( 1987 ), ''The Good News Travels Fast - The Acts Of The Apostles'' ( 1988 ), ''A Few Who Dared to Trust God'' ( 1990 ), and ''A Book About Jesus'' ( 1991 ). In 1991, the 175th anniversary of the American Bible Society, the CEV New Testament was released. The CEV Old Testament was released in 1995 . The British Plain English Campaign awarded the BFBS anglicised CEV a Crystal Mark award in 1997 in appreciation of the clarity of the CEV's type of English. In or Webcast . {Link without Title} TRANSLATION PRINCIPLES AND FEATURES In translating the CEV, the translators followed three translation principles. They were: The CEV must be understood by people without stumbling in speech, The CEV must be understood by those with little or no comprehension of "Bible" language, and the CEV must be understood by all. The CEV uses gender-sensitive language for humanity and not for the Godhead. The translation also takes care to simplify "Bible" terms into more understandable words and phrases. An example can be found in Exodus 20:14 , where the word '' in the New Testament. Other modern language versions of the Bible include the New Living Translation and the New Century Version . REFERENCES
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