How this translation is governed

This is a King James Bible platform. The KJV governs every decision: where the KJV prints a word, the Twi renders that word. Where the KJV prints two different words, the Twi uses two different words — even when they mean nearly the same thing. We call this the KJV-word-governs rule, and it is why the Twi sometimes reads more precisely than a smoother translation would.

The Textus Receptus is the manuscript foundation for the New Testament, and the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text for the Old. We do not correct the KJV against other manuscript traditions, and we never substitute another translation.

The KJV prints explanatory notes in its margins — {Heb. …}, {or, …}. Those notes are never carried into the Twi text; they are reference material about the text, not the text itself. The one exception is the KJV's supplied words — printed in italics, like {and} — which are rendered, because the translators put them in the verse.

Key terms are locked so they read the same way everywhere in the Bible: Onyankopɔn (God), Awurade (Lord), AWURADE (LORD), amumuyɛ (iniquity), and 2,632 others. A locked term cannot be changed in one verse without being changed everywhere — which is checked automatically before any chapter is accepted.

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No translator, no reviewer, and no automated check can mark a verse as final. Only the Pastor ratifies, verse by verse, and until he does, the verse carries the under pastoral review mark you see beside it. That is why 660 of 31,105 verses are currently marked ratified — the number grows as the shepherd walks the text, and we will not inflate it.

No report and no suggestion ever edits a verse directly. When a correction is accepted, the change is applied as a logged database update with a written ledger entry recording what changed, why, and on whose ruling. The record is permanent.

Beside every Twi verse there is a Boa yɛn — Make Us Better link. Tap it, say what looks wrong, and send. You do not need an account. Two fields are required: what kind of issue it is, and what is wrong in your own words. Twi or English is fine.

1. You file a report.
2. Field reviewers read it and mark what they can confirm.
3. Endorsed items go to the Pastor's queue.
4. The Pastor rules. Only then does the text change — logged, with a ledger line.

If you read Asante Twi and you know your Bible, you are exactly who this needs. Reading one chapter carefully and reporting what you find is a real contribution.

Because a Bible nobody can read helps nobody. Publishing the draft openly — clearly labelled, verse by verse — lets the church read it now and correct it as it goes, instead of waiting years for a finished book that was never tested against real readers. The alternative is not a better translation; it is no translation in anyone's hands.