How is the NIrV different from the NIV?
The NIrV is based on the NIV. The NIV Committee on Bible Translation (CBT) didn’t produce the NIrV. But several members of CBT worked hard to make the NIrV possible. The words of the NIV were used when possible. When the NIV words were long, shorter words were used. The NIV sentences were also made much shorter to make the NIrV really easy to read and understand. What other Helps does the NIrV have? The NIrV gives you a lot of other help too. For example, sometimes a verse is quoted from another place in the Bible. When it is, the translators put the Bible book’s name, chapter and verse right after the verse that quotes another place. They separated each chapter into shorter sections. They gave a title to almost every chapter. Sometimes they even gave a title to a section. They did it to help you understand what the chapter or section is all about. Sometimes the writers of the Bible used more than one name for the same person or place. For example, in the New Testament the Sea of Galil
