 A gender-neutral edition was first published in 1991, supplanting the original.Grudem and Poythress wrote, "The earliest complete translations of the Bible to adopt a gender-neutral translation policy were apparently the New Century Version (NCV) and the International Children’s Bible (ICB), both published by Worthy Publishing Company, which was sold to Word Publishing in 1988.The simplified ICB says nothing in its preface about its gender-neutral translation policy.