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La revisión de 2013 cambió varias expresiones de carga doctrinal: ‘Seol’ y ‘Hades’ pasaron a ser ‘la Tumba’; neʹfesch y psy·kjeʹ ya no se vierten uniformemente como ‘alma’, sino según el sentido; y ‘fijado en un madero’ (en inglés, ‘impaled’) pasó a ser ‘ejecutado en un madero’ o ‘clavado en el madero’.

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La revisión de 2013 cambió varias expresiones de carga doctrinal: ‘Seol’ y ‘Hades’ pasaron a ser ‘la Tumba’; neʹfesch y psy·kjeʹ ya no se vierten uniformemente como ‘alma’, sino según el sentido; y ‘fijado en un madero’ (en inglés, ‘impaled’) pasó a ser ‘ejecutado en un madero’ o ‘clavado en el madero’. Source: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), 2013Source: The Watchtower (study edition), 15 de diciembre de 2015Source: The Watchtower (study edition), 15 de diciembre de 2015

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: La organización dice que las expresiones anteriores se mantuvieron en las ediciones previas para que los lectores pudieran ver cómo usaban las palabras originales los escritores bíblicos, y que se cambiaron porque ese uso ‘no es común en inglés’ y porque en otros idiomas la palabra para ‘alma’ ‘podría dar la impresión de que el “alma” es una parte inmaterial del hombre’; sobre ‘fijar en un madero’ dice que la palabra anterior corría el riesgo de ‘dar una idea equivocada de cómo se ejecutó a Jesús’.

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), “Appendix A2: Features of This Revision”

2013 · Appendix A2 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“All adjustments in the Bible text were made prayerfully, carefully, and with deep respect for the fine work of the original New World Bible Translation Committee.”

The appendix lists the changes made in the 2013 revision: “long-suffering” to “patience”, “harlot” to “prostitute”, “fornication” to “sexual immorality”, “time indefinite” to “forever” and similar terms, “seed” to “offspring”, and “impale” to “executed on a stake” or “nailed to the stake” because Jesus “was not impaled with the torture stake”. It states that “Sheol” and “Hades” were “replaced with what was meant by the Bible writers, ‘the Grave’”, that neʹphesh and psy·kheʹ are no longer rendered uniformly as “soul”, and that the small-capital indicators for second-person plural were dropped, adding that “readers may consult earlier editions of this translation for this information”.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), Appendix A2: Features of This Revision

Nota de confianza. Full appendix fetched from JW.org and read on 19 September 2026; quotation and the listed changes confirmed from the page text.

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Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwto-nwtsty-a2-features

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The Watchtower (study edition), “The 2013 Revision of the New World Translation”

15 de diciembre de 2015 · pp.14-17 · pars. 2, 16, 17 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Over the years, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures has been revised a number of times, but the 2013 revision was by far the most extensive. For example, there are now about 10 percent fewer English words in the translation.”

The article explains the revision term by term: “impaled” to “executed on a stake”, “lose conduct” to “brazen conduct”, “long-suffering” to “patience”, “loving-kindness” to “loyal love”, “seed” to “offspring” at Genesis 3:15, “kidneys” to “innermost thoughts” at Revelation 2:23, and “sons of Israel” to “Israelites”. On the text it says: “The original New World Translation was based on the Hebrew Masoretic text and the respected Greek text by Westcott and Hort,” and that the committee added words at 2 Samuel 13:21 from the Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls, restored God’s name five times in First Samuel, and changed the order of ideas at Matthew 21:29-31, so that “some changes were based on the weight of manuscript evidence rather than on the strict adherence to a single master Greek text”.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower (study edition), The 2013 Revision of the New World Translation

Nota de confianza. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; wording and page markers confirmed from the document.

Corroborado por. src-nwto-nwtsty-a2-features

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwto-w-2015-1215-revision-2013

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The Watchtower (study edition), “A Living Translation of God’s Word”

15 de diciembre de 2015 · p.12 · pars. 10-12 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“So in September 2007, the Governing Body gave approval to revise the English text. Thousands of questions from Bible translators were reviewed during the revision process.”

The article explains that questions from translators working into other languages exposed problems in the English text: “approval was given” to render “Sheol” and “Hades” as “the Grave”, and “approval was given” to render neʹphesh and psy·kheʹ by sense rather than always as “soul”, because the older rendering “could give the impression that the ‘soul’ is an immaterial part of man”. It also states that the Governing Body “has given priority” to Bible translation because of the trend to omit the divine name.

Nota de procedencia y verificación for The Watchtower (study edition), A Living Translation of God’s Word

Nota de confianza. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; wording and page markers confirmed from the document.

Corroborado por. src-nwto-w-2015-1215-revision-2013, src-nwto-nwtsty-a2-features

Notes. Directly relevant to the anonymity question: the translation committee’s work is approved and prioritised by the Governing Body, which is named.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwto-w-2015-1215-living-approval

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