Lexham English Bible(LEB)

The Lexham English Bible was produced by Lexham Press, the publishing arm of Logos Bible Software, with the New Testament released in 2010 and the Old Testament in 2011 under general editor Dr. W. Hall Harris III — a Dallas Theological Seminary professor who also directs the New English Translation (NET) project. The LEB grew directly out of interlinear-translation work inside Logos's own software, where every English word or phrase is tied back to a specific word in the underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek.

The LEB's own foreword states its goal plainly: "unparalleled transparency with the original language text." It's a formal-equivalence translation deliberately built to be read alongside the Hebrew and Greek as a study aid, not necessarily as a stand-alone reading Bible — closer in spirit to a highly readable interlinear than to a pulpit or devotional translation.

Two features carry that purpose into the English text itself: corner brackets mark English idioms that don't correspond word-for-word to the original phrasing, and italics mark words the translators added for readability with no direct equivalent in the source text — letting a reader see exactly where the English departs from a strict literal rendering.

On gender language, the LEB keeps the original text's own grammatical gender rather than substituting inclusive alternatives — "brothers," not "brothers and sisters," wherever the Greek says adelphoi.