IBT has released a new edition in the Bezhta language  containing the Old Testament books of Jonah and  Ruth. Previous publications in Bezhta include the Gospel of Luke (1999), an excerpt from the Gospel of John 1:1–17 (2000), the book of Proverbs (2005), and "Gospel Parables" (2018).

The Bezhta people belong to the Tsezic ethnic constellation, whose languages form part of the Avar-Andic-Tsezic branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian language family. According to the 2021  population census of Russia, there are 6,890 Bezhtas in Russia. Most of them live in the villages of Bezhta and Tlyadal in the Tsuntinsky District of Daghestan (Russia), as well as in the Kvareli District of Georgia.

The Bezhta language has no written tradition of its own. It is listed in the "Red Book of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia," which catalogues languages under threat of extinction. Drawing on the alphabet of the related Avar language, 19 additional graphemes were created to represent the distinctive features of Bezhta phonetics. This publication includes explanatory notes on the transcription symbols of the Bezhta alphabet and sets out the principles for denoting vowel length and nasality,  and other phonetic features of the language. To date, Scripture portions remain the only published written texts in Bezhta.

In preparing the publication, the translation team paid particular attention to adapting Biblical names to the phonetic features of Bezhta. The philological editor of the publication was linguist Madzhid Khalilov, Doctor of Philology, Professor, and Honored Scientist of the Republic of Daghestan, who has made a significant contribution to the study and development of the Bezhta language.

The publication includes illustrations drawing on elements of Caucasian folk culture. The print run is 200 copies.

A PDF version of the publication is available on the IBT website.