A range of Scriptures in non-English languages is always stocked at Bible House in Belfast. These consist of Bibles and New Testaments in print format in approximately 50 languages, including some Children’s editions. Availability can sometimes vary. The Society can order Scriptures for you from around 100 languages from our Europe-Middle East store which is situated in Copenhagen.
This service is provided in recognition of the growing migrant communities in Northern Ireland and our desire to resource both churches and individuals who have opportunities to provide Scriptures for people they encounter, in the language with which they were brought up.
While we aim to provide multiple copies of particular editions for distribution projects, we are also happy to order single copies for individuals as part of our regular ordering process. We usually place an order each month. In order to keep costs to a minimum, delivery is by sea freight and may take 2 – 3 weeks.
This service does not extend to audio/visual products or to single books (Gospels) but it does provide access to editions for Bible students, especially in Ancient Greek, Hebrew and Latin, and also some diglot editions e.g. English with Chinese, Polish, Hungarian or Arabic.
You can discuss your specific requirements with our staff at Bible House (telephone 90326577) who will advise on current availability and cost. Please feel free to call into Bible House and see our available stock – we are less than 100m from City Hall in Belfast.
Bibles and New Testaments in the languages listed below are normally held in stock. Prices vary but start at £3.50 for a New Testament and £9.99 for a Bible.
Any surplus that is generated from our trading sales helps towards our translation and distribution programme.
Languages Available:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic – van Dyck and Good News
Ancient Greek
Bahasa, Indonesia
Chinese Bible– Classical and Simplified Script
Chinese-English NT – Today’s Chinese Version (Classical/Good News English
Croatian
Czech
Farsi
French – TOB, Parole de Vie (modern)
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati, India
Hungarian
Irish (including CD Rom edition)
Italian
Japanese
Kannada, India
Kiswahili
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Nepali
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Polish/English NIV
Portuguese
Punjabi, India
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Shona
Singhalese
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Syriac
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Many other languages may be available in our Copenhagen warehouse. Please feel free to enquire about what is stocked and also how Scripture in non-English languages can be delivered to a church / school using the services of one of our sister Bible Societies.
For bulk orders, please allow up to 3 weeks for delivery to Northern Ireland.
Note: Bi-lingual New Testaments can be obtained in:
English / Arabic, English / Chinese, English / Hungarian and English / Polish.
