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The first full bilingual Hawaiian-English Bible will be released from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Sites and Archives in downtown Honolulu. Read more

The first full bilingual Hawaiian-English Bible will be released from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Sites and Archives in downtown Honolulu.

The Partners in Development Foundation (PIDF) is sponsoring the release of “Ka Baibala Hemolele, The Holy Bible,” with diacritical markings in the modern orthography.

“The Baibala is a major linguistic, cultural and spiritual resource for the Hawaiian community and Hawaiian language students throughout the world,” said Helen Kaupu Kaowili, Baibala Hemolele’s project director, in a news release.

The public is invited to Tuesday’s event, where there will be a special exhibit on display and Ka Baibala Hemolele will be available for purchase for $40. The historical mission buildings will be open for tours, and heavy pupu will be served. PIDF is having a presale for the books, available for purchase by calling 595-2752.

All 66 books of the Baibala Hemolele completed the processes of editing and standardization just last year, the release said. Co-sponsors are the Atherton Family Foundation and Kamehameha Schools.

The Hawaiian Bible Project initially started in 2002 as an effort to electronically preserve the 1839, 1868 and 1994 printings of the Hawaiian Bible and make it freely available to the public.