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Best version/translation?

I'd automatically go KJV, but I have a few problems with it, one of them being that it's outdated (no Dead Sea scrolls, for example). Apocrypha in the version is very welcome.

>> No.1492492

people fap to the bible

>> No.1492499

One of the KJV revisions bro.
Anything else is like a disco remix of your favorite classical rock piece

>> No.1492508

Hebrewthers is the only version.

>> No.1492518

>>1492499
NKJV is the only one I know, but it doesn't use the Dead Sea Scrolls and other finds too, just modernises the KJV.

What about Jehova's Witness Bibles or the evangelical ESV?

>> No.1492526

Douay-Rheims or King James if you can't read the ancient tongues.

Otherwise, go straight to the source.

>> No.1492665

>>1492526
Are you sure pre-Dead Scrolls Bibles are still reliable translations?

>> No.1492669

I was raised with the Catholic bible

72 books instead of 66 in KJV

>> No.1492670

>>1492518

New World Translation by Jehovah's Witnesses is actually a very good rendition. I believe it is online too.

>> No.1492676

New Oxford Annotated Bible is the best; it's most faithful to the original, plus it has footnotes (very useful when reading a text so full of metaphor).

NEVER go for KJV, as it is the most heavily censored version.

>> No.1492687

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=44536

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>>1492669
let protestans alone, deteronimical books are mah books

>> No.1492690

>>1492484
i think you might enjoy wycliffe's bibles

>> No.1492713

These are the best translations:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis&version=AMP
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis&version=YLT

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1492732

Howabout.... none of the above!

>> No.1492733

>>1492713
I'm not sure I like them much for normal reading. These two translations will be very useful to look at the precise meaning of a certain passage or chapter, though.

>>1492690
>In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe
He.

>>1492687
What point are you trying to make?

>>1492676
I'll look into it more.

>>1492670
Probably my favourite so far, the notes seem useful. What do they talk about in the notes? Meaning of words? Historical context? Their interpretations?

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>>1492732
Richard Dawkins read the Bible himself, you know!

>> No.1492770

>>1492733
>He.
he what?

>> No.1492777

>>1492739
doubtless with the same mindset i'd bring to twilight or white power propaganda