“ And there is good reason for that. If you look at the popular, copyrighted translations, like the NJPS, the NRSV, the NIV, and the ESV, they were done by large committees of scholars. That is an enormous strength of those translations, but it comes at a cost - a literal, financial cost - which makes releasing those translations to the public domain impossible. ”

“ The Wikisource Bible translation is released to the public domain.
Why donate it to the public domain? A good answer to this question has been provided by WEB. Why yet another public domain translation There are some other modern translations of the Bible in the public domain, but Wikisource has some advantages that when taken together make it unique.
It is collaborative. It is able to draw on the efforts of a potentially large number of people. Other public domain translations tend to be the work of one individual. ”