Read the Yiddish Brit Chadasha Free on YouVersion

In 2008, a pastor and entrepreneur named Bobby Gruenewald launched a small Bible app called YouVersion out of Edmond, Oklahoma. The timing was providential: that same year, Apple opened its brand-new App Store, and YouVersion became one of the very first 200 apps ever made available to the public.

What began as a modest project pivoted directly into the rise of the smartphone, recognizing early the potential of mobile technology to put Scripture into people's pockets everywhere. That early bet on mobile turned out to be a Gutenberg-sized printing delivery revolution — not on a printing press, but on a touchscreen. YouVersion launched at exactly the right moment to ride the smartphone wave, reaching hundreds of millions of people globally through a medium that would soon become ubiquitous in nearly every pocket on earth.

Today, the OYBC — the Orthodox Yiddish Brit Chadasha translated and updated by Dr. Phil Goble of AFII — is part of that same global library, freely accessible to Yiddish readers anywhere in the world through this same revolution in Bible distribution.

With either Testament, YouVersion's Parallel Mode lets you display the Yiddish text, an English transliteration, and a full English translation all aligned together — verse by verse, side by side. This makes the OYBC accessible not only to fluent Yiddish readers, but also to those learning Yiddish, or who simply want to follow along in English while hearing the sound and rhythm of the original Yiddish text.