It is not yet clear which Swedish edition(s) Onesimos Nesib used when translating Bible texts into Oromo in the 1880s and 1890s. The most likely editions are the following ones:
Charles XII Bible:
Bibelen eller Den heliga skrift: innehållande Gamla och Nya Testamentets canoniska böcker. Stockholm: Rumstedt, 1873 (Printed at the expense of the British and Foreign Bible Society). [LogosMappen]
- Official Bible in the Church of Sweden; spelling adapted to 19th-century usage.
Normalupplagan (New Testament, 1883):
Bibelkommissionen, ed. Nya Testamentet: Normalupplagan enligt kongl. cirkuläret den 19 Oktober 1883. Stockholm: Norstedt & Söner, 1883. [Reprint 1888: Google Books]
Note
In addition to the Swedish Bible translation, Onesimos Nesib also used Amharic Bible texts. The most likely editions are:
(1) Revised by J. L. Krapf et al.:
Novum Testamentum in linguam Amharicam vertit Abu-Rumi Habessinus [New Testament translated into Amharic by Abu-Rumi, the Abyssinian]. Basle (Switzerland): F. Spittler, 1866.
- 2nd edition/ Reprint: St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1870. [Google Books]
The Books of the Old Testament, translated into the Amharic language by Abba Rukh, an Abyssinian Learned. For the first Time corrected and edited in England by the Rev. Thomas Platt, M.A. Now improved after the Hebrew Original by the Rev. Dr. Krapf in Germany. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1871–73:
- First Part containing
The five books of Moses. The book of Joshua. The book of Judges. The book of Ruth. St. Chrischona 1871. [View online] - The books of the Prophets in Amharic: The third part of the Old Testament. St. Chrischona 1873. [View online]
- From the first book of Samuel to the Song of Solomon in Amharic: The second part of the Old Testament. St. Chrischona 1873. [View online]
(2) Revised by J. M. Flad et al.
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments [in Amharic]. St. Chrischona: Mission Press, 1886 (according to the Amharic text: 1887; printed at the expenses of the BFBS)
- View online at Hamburg Univ. Library]