Dear reader,

The Bible is the revelation of God given to the sages of Israel — men who knew God, understood him, and experienced him for themselves. The prophets were, quite simply, God's spokesmen: they repeated to the people of their day what God had said to them, wrote it down, and handed it on. The Bible is a collection of the word of God.

That God should reveal anything to us is grace upon grace. Without a message from him, life is like a blind man groping in the dark, searching for its own meaning and worth.

What moves us is a sentence that recurs throughout the Bible, one the faithful of old often applied to themselves: the word of Yahweh (YHWH) came to so-and-so (Genesis 15:1, 1 Samuel 15:1, Jeremiah 1:2, and elsewhere); and in another way: so-and-so did according to the word of Yahweh (YHWH) (Joshua 8:27, 2 Chronicles 35:6, Jeremiah 13:2, and elsewhere). The word of God surely is the spark of life.

Two things worthy of notice:

1. If a person takes God's word seriously, that word can become the turning point of a life. Personal experience and the history of the church both bear testimony to this. God's word brings the breath of life; it brings revival. If his word comes to you, can you remain unmoved?
2. God's word gives our lives direction, and is to be obeyed. The Bible is not a subject for historical, academic, or leisure reading. It is God telling people directly how to live and what to do — as parents instruct a child, hoping the child will take it to heart and grow up healthy and glad.

That is why we created this site for you: to read and study the Word of God.

3 Features

We modified the Berean Study Bible, which is in the public domain, and with it, provide three important features which we hope can enhance your own study:

1. Restoring the Divine name of God: Yahweh
2. Refining the use of the word "Lord" in the New Testament
3. Providing the Strong's numbers

1. The Name of God:
The English Bible has one serious issue: it has removed the name of God. The name is יהוה (YHWH) in Hebrew text. The King James Bible adopted the Jewish (LXX) tradition of translating the name as "the LORD"¹, and most English Bibles afterward followed suit. The name of God, YHWH, is omitted from most Bibles. Few Christians ever realize that God has a personal name.

However, the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) uses God's name יהוה (YHWH) openly and frequently. The ancient Israelites did not refrain from using this name in their prayers and in their writings.

We are providing a BSB(Yahweh) edition, which restores "Yahweh" in all 6828 occurrences where YHWH appears in the Old Testament (Strong's numbers H3068, H3069), together with the 49² occurrences of the shortened form Yah (Strong's number H3050).

2. The use of the word "Lord & lord" in the New Testament:
After their return from the exile, the Jews of the New Testament period avoided saying God's name aloud and used "the Lord" (κύριος, Strong's number G2962) in its place. But the Greek word has a wide range: besides the Lord Yahweh, it can mean the Lord Jesus, and it can equally mean the master of a slave or any person of rank. Readers are therefore left unable to tell the Lord (Jesus) from God (Yahweh), and the two being confused with one another.

This BSB(Yahweh) edition therefore marks them up as follows:

• (A) Where "LordG2962" refers to Yahweh, it is presented as "Lord^ G2962" (for example, Matthew 1:22).
• (B) Where "LordG2962" addresses Jesus — other than the plain "Lord Jesus" (for example, Mark 16:19) — it is presented as "Lord* G2962" (for example, Matthew 7:21).
• (C) Where "LordG2962" refers to the Christ, it is "Lord# G2962" (for example, Matthew 22:43, 44, 45).
• (D) Where the subject is ambiguous, and the word could mean either the Lord Yahweh or the Lord Jesus, no markup is added (for example, Matthew 21:3).
• (E) Where "Lord" has no support in the Greek text, it is marked "LordG0" (i.e., assigned with Strong's number 0; for example, Matthew 2:12, 22).
• (F) Where it refers to a person, a master, or a man of wealth, no markup is added (for example, Matthew 6:24, 10:24).

In the text-only edition, which shows no Strong's numbers, the same indications appear as "Lord^, Lord*, Lord#", each with a footnote explanation.

3. Strong's numbers:
The numbering comes from James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, published in 1890. Strong listed the original-language words and assigned each a number: Hebrew H1–H8674, Greek G1–G5624.

The number system provides a shortcut for readers who know little Hebrew/Greek. By using the number system, they can use a lexicon of the original languages and work through a concordance of its vocabulary. Many tool books are available with Strong's numbers.

We are also providing an ASV (Yahweh) edition, with the same features. This dated version is for comparison purposes, as ASV is closely related to the Chinese CUV.

Finally, we have released our 2017 revision as two sets of eBooks (PDF):

1. Text-only edition: Old and New Testaments, Chinese and English side by side — the Chinese Union Version (Yahweh Edition) against the Lexham English Bible (LEB). The LEB is, likewise, a Yahweh edition; its own translational notes appear as {Note: ...}, and words added to make the sense read smoothly appear in [ ].
2. Bilingual New Testament, Chinese and Greek: the Chinese Union Version (Yahweh Edition) with the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, with Strong's numbers for comparison.

May the word of Yahweh become the spring of your life and the light on your path.
28 September 2026

1. ASV (1911) made a courageous step to use "Jehovah"; however, we now know that Jehovah is a made-up word using the consonants of YHWH with the vowels of Adonai.

2. The copy of LC that we are using has 50 occurrences; some ancient manuscripts show 49 times, leaving out the one reference of Song of Solomon 8:6.