# Looking for good Arabic translation of the Bible

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325 "2015-11-01T09:59:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/1 "2015-11-01T09:59:03Z")

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I’m looking for a good Arabic translation of the standard Protestant Bible (the usual 66 books), preferably as a PDF. Anyone have a link to such or even a PDF of the thing already? I tried searching using a number of engines; however, plenty of links turned out to be dead, and plenty of other links simply went back to one where each book of the Bible was a separate PDF.

Thanks for your help!

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**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/2 "2015-11-01T11:28:00Z")

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I tried googling and couldn’t find anything sorry

if anyone does find something, make sure you don’t post .pdf links to copyrighted translations

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/3 "2015-11-01T11:32:10Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> I tried googling and couldn’t find anything sorry

Yeah. It was getting so frustrating that I was starting to think some, well, unchristian thoughts about those who put the links up!

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> if anyone does find something, make sure you don’t post .pdf links to copyrighted translations

Unless, of course, the copyright holder has given permission to share the, er, word(s).

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/4 "2015-11-01T11:53:20Z")

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Why not just contact the publisher/copyright holder and work out a deal for a consolidated .pdf

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/5 "2015-11-01T16:10:05Z")

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I’m not sure if these are in the format you’re looking for but check them out.

> **[Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) - Version Information -...](https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Arabic-Bible-Easy-to-Read-Version-ERV-AR/#booklist)**

> **[Ketab El Hayat (NAV) - Version Information - BibleGateway.com](https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Ketab-El-Hayat-New-Arabic-Version-NAV-Bible/#booklist)**

> **[The Bible in Al-'Arabiyya](https://worldbibles.org/language_detail/eng/arb/Al-'Arabiyya)**
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> Bible resources for Al-'Arabiyya.

> **[التكوين 1 – Ketab El Hayat NAV | Biblica](https://www.biblica.com/bible/nav/)**
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> فِي الْبَدْءِ خَلَقَ ا&#16

> **[The Van Dyke Arabic in PDF Format - Arabic Bible Outreach Ministry](https://www.arabicbible.com/in-pdf/1648-the-van-dyke-arabic-in-pdf-format.html?tmpl=component&print=1&page=?tmpl=component&print=1&page=)**
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> The following fonts are needed for proper display of the Arabic text in PDF Format. Please copy these fonts under the fonts directory (the folder FONTS) of your windows installation which is

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**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-good-arabic-translation-of-the-bible/736325/6 "2015-11-01T22:59:31Z")

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Check with Wycliffe Bible Translators.