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Inside the massive effort to translate the Bible into American Sign Language

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https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/inside-the-massive-effort-to-translate-the-bible-into-american-sign-language

 

PHOENIX — It is a book that has been translated into thousands of languages. Yet one of the biggest challenges churches all over the country have faced is translating the book into a language the deaf community can understand.

 

Within the last year, the Bible was finally available in American Sign Language. It took Deaf Missions Ministry and their partners 39 years to complete the translation, and it took the Jehovah's Witnesses 15 years to put together the New World Translation of the Bible.

 

Robert Hendricks, a spokesman for the Jehovah's Witnesses, described the project as a massive labor of love.

 

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