New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition), Appendix A5, “The Divine Name in the Christian Greek Scriptures”
“The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures does not follow this common practice. It uses the name Jehovah a total of 237 times in the Christian Greek Scriptures. In deciding to do this, the translators took into consideration two important factors: (1) The Greek manuscripts we possess today are not the originals. … (2) By that time, those copying the manuscripts either replaced the Tetragrammaton with Kyʹri·os, the Greek word for “Lord,” or they copied from manuscripts where this had already been done.”
The appendix sets out the organisation's reasons for putting 'Jehovah' into the New Testament: that Hebrew manuscripts of Jesus' day contained the Tetragrammaton, that some pre-Christian Greek Septuagint fragments contain it in Hebrew characters, that Jesus spoke of his Father's name, that the Tosefta refers to the divine name in Christian writings, and that The Anchor Bible Dictionary and George Howard allow that it may have stood in Old Testament quotations in the New Testament. It concludes: 'Without a doubt, there is a clear basis for restoring the divine name, Jehovah, in the Christian Greek Scriptures.'
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Nota de confianza. The appendix was fetched from JW.org and read in full on 19 September 2026; the quotation and the figure of 237 occurrences were confirmed from the page. [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] Fetched and read again; the quotation is verbatim and the closing sentence quoted in the context field — 'Without a doubt, there is a clear basis for restoring the divine name, Jehovah, in the Christian Greek Scriptures' — is on the page. The figure of 237 is independently corroborated from outside the organisation by Metzger's 1964 review, which reports 'the introduction of the name Jehovah 237 times into the main body of the text, as well as 72 times in the footnotes'.
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Notes. This is the organisation's fullest published answer to the criticism BeDuhn and others make. Note that it argues from what the manuscripts probably contained originally, not from any surviving Greek New Testament manuscript; BeDuhn describes the same reasoning as 'conjectural emendation'.
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