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In relation to the issue of gender neutral language, or gender-accuracy, the New English Bible was produced before a time when there was any awareness that this was going to become an issue.

So it rendered pronouns ( among other things ) using the traditional literary method followed by many previous translations in which the generic use of " he " is both typical and assumed.

However, using this literary method has become increasingly unpopular, and a revision of the New English Bible, aptly titled the Revised English Bible, was undertaken.

Among the goals for this revision were rendering the text of the New English Bible gender-accurate, as well as fixing errors of transposition and interpretation that many felt to be present in the text.