Coming after the beta
Sometimes you want the text in your hands, away from a screen — to read straight through, or to mark up. The print editions are typeset and ready, but they are not at the printer yet: a book cannot be corrected after it ships, so they go to press only once the online text has been read hard enough to have settled.
Read the beta How it gets to print
Every correction readers send makes the printed edition better. That is the whole reason it is waiting.
Cover mock-up. No edition has gone to press yet.
The text you read online and the text that goes in the book come from the same source, so every fix made now lands in the printed edition.
The complete text is online and free, marked beta because the spellings are still being refined. Nothing is held back — you are reading the same text the book will carry.
Every word panel in the reader has a Report an issue link. Tell us when a form looks wrong, a gloss misleads, or a spelling reads badly, and it feeds back into the text.
Once the reports slow to a trickle and the spellings stop moving, the editions go to press — single column, Charis SIL, with the SBLGNT's own paragraphing.