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The NET Bible ® ( acronym for New English Translation) is a free, on-line English translation of the Bible, funded by the Biblical Studies Foundation.

The New English Translation, like the NIV, is a completely new translation of the Bible and not an update or revision of an old one, like the RSV. The translation is undertaken by twenty biblical scholars who worked directly from the best currently available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. It was conceived informally in November 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the US at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. Many of the conceivers of the project eventually became part of the translation team, which were claimed to be non-sectarian and evangelical.

The translation project originally started as an attempt to provide an electronic version of a modern translation over the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu and on CD-ROMThe CD-ROM (an abbreviation for " Compact Disc Read-Only Memory" ( ROM) ) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. A CD-ROM is a flat, plastic disc wit without cost.

The translation is most notable for its lengthy footnoteA footnote is a note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on (or cites a reference for) a part of the main text and is normally flagged by a superscript number within the main text thus: :1 for the first footnote on the pags, its open translation process, and its availability on the internet even before it was complete. The complete 2nd Beta version may be downloaded free of charge and is also available in printed editions.