The following quote from the publisher’s note to the readers in the NLT Study Bible, and I think it hits the nail right on the head:

“The goal of any Bible translation is to convey the meaning and content of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts as accurately as possible to contemporary readers. The challenge for our translators was to create a text that would communicate as clearly and powerfully to today’s readers as the original texts did to readers and listeners in the ancient Biblical world.”