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Top 5 Bible translations (in no particular order):
>KJV (can’t understand half of any biblical references/phrases in literature without a basic knowledge of it)
>ESV (Ironically a better modern KJV than the NKJV, since it carries the distinction of being an ecumenical bible with the same KJV lineage without being overly modernist/sensitive like the NRSV)
>Jerusalem Bible (for the Catholic cred, every other Catholic Bible is either a revision of a prot one or fluffy garbage)
>LSB (Basically just the NASB with Yahweh in the OT and slight improvements in the NT, good for approximating the literal reading of a text without needing outside resources)
>Lexham English Septuagint (for the Ortho cred, Brenton is good but uses KJV language out of then current convention, and the OSB is just the NKJV with some changes to conform to the LXX+Deuterocanon)
Runner ups:
>New English Bible (pretty good Non-KJV lineage bible in modern English, docked for being pretty unknown outside the UK, and even there the NRSV and NIV have mostly replaced it)
>Holy Bible: New Jerusalem Version (Not to be confused with the Jerusalem Bible. Messianic Jewish translation so it may be larpy to some, but it’s the best in that particular niche market and helps you understand the Jewish context of the NT, /pol/fags be damned)
>Antioch Bible Translation New Testament (picrel. Translation of the Syriac Peshitta, good if only because it BTFO’s all the aramaic primacy larpers who read in a bunch of non-Christian nonsense into the Bible under the guise of it being “non-Hellenistic”, while showing where the Syriac version actually does differ from the Greek)
>CSB: middle of the road in every way, only reason it hasn’t replaced the NIV in evangelical circles seems to be tradition)