It was only released in the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth Countries.
In 1997, an article by World Magazine accused the NIVi of being "a feminist seduction of the evangelical church".
A meeting led by Dobson released the Colorado Springs Guidelines, a set of guidelines on gender in Bible translation.
[citation needed] A modified edition was published in 1999.
Typical of the changes was Leviticus 15:2-15, where "man" was restored in the 1999 edition,[citation needed] as the passage clearly concerned males.