 Though it is not the first Bible to be published by the group, it is their first original translation of ancient Classical Hebrew, Koine Greek, and Old Aramaic biblical texts.As of September 2019, the Watch Tower Society has published more than 220 million copies of the "New World Translation" in whole or in part in 187 languages.Though commentators have noted the scholarly effort that went into the translation, critics have described it as biased.