What's the best version of the Bible to read?

KJV for any relevant person.

easy on the carrots, bugs ;)

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According to Cayce the answer is whichever version speaks most to you. What matters is that you read something that spurns you to action, not that you understand the canon behind it.

This is a good answer.

>not reading the original Hebrew and Greek
Can anyone here do this? I'm interested in learning.

Septuagint for old testament.
NT: Patriarchal Text 1904

Nowadays I don't give a fuck about Christianity that phase of life went trough.

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Here uploaded for you 2 good pdf versions for Septuagint and patriarchal text in English.

based NRSV
I like the Augsburg Lutheran study bible personally

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Nobody ever says New American Bible but the correct answer is the New American Bible. It's Catholic so it's correct, and it's got all kinds of footnotes that explain translation choices and add historical context.

New World Translations

I can read a little bit of the NT is Koine after a couple months of studying. It's easier than you'd think.

Then again I think it depends on how you start learning. I highly recommend Peter Jones' Learn Ancient Greek it's fantastic. (He has one for Latin as well and I think Old English)

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In English? Either King James Version (with the Apocrypha) or Douray-Rheims, either with modernized spellings, are the best. Anything else is less aesthetic or corrupted by (((modernists))).

lol

have you actually tried reading it? it's the dumbest most awkward translation I've come across.

And don't get me started on the "Jehova" and "the grave" bs. Holy fuck, talk about bias

Witnesses can go drink some kool aid

The King James Version. The 400th Year Anniversary Edition.

1. Familiarize yourself with hermeneutics (the study of interpreting the Bible in context)
2. Read the Bible bearing in mind things like the massive gulf in language and culture separating you from the original audiences
>inb4 nah I'll just read it m8 I don't need any other shit.
Sorry, friend. If you want to properly comprehend the Biblical text you must have some grounding in hermeneutics. For example, when you read in Joshua of apparent genocidal massacres "the Israelites slew all the Amalekites" you have to know that "all" was a common idiom, an accepted form of hyperbole that essentially meant "a lot". Thus the Israelites were not genociding Canaanites, but waging war against them in the normal sense.

(You)

The Vulgate, you heretic.

bible 4 qt christian grills is a bible 4 me

We have this thread literally 5 times a day.

Depends what you're reading it for! See pic

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Jew here, can read it in Hebrew, and it's absolutely superb. Only recently I began to have a genuine interest in the Tanach (Old Testament) and Judaism in general (after the edgy atheist phase) and started reading the books I'm less familiar with and I feel really glad Hebrew is my native language. Biblical Hebrew is different than modern, obviously more archaic, obsolete words, some grammatical differences, and the very unique and occasionally obscure style of the scripture, so some verses are harder to understand and commentary and explanation are necessary, but the complexity just makes it more exciting. If you want to study the language I believe it will be advisable to start with modern, and once you're good and literary it'll be easier to tackle the Tanach.

Progress.

Should every chapter be read to really understand it?
I feel like psalms can be skipped

You should read it all eventually, but you don't need to read it sequentially cover to cover if that's what you mean. Psalms especially, just keep reading a psalm here and there, but it's good to go through them.

Why do we have to have this shitty thread inflicted on us again?

No. There's a lot of history books that have little to no theological impace or are relevant to the story whatsoever. Also somewhere in midst of reading through the third book of mosaic laws of which virtually none apply anymore you'll get frustrated and flunk out.
Ironically hasn't read it all otherwise he'd know what shit advice that is. Especially to someone who struggles with Psalms of all books.
It's of course again dependent on what you're going for.

>NJB
>NRSV
Absolutely disgusting.

>Ironically (You) hasn't read it all otherwise he'd know what shit advice that is.
Except I have, and I said to read it all *eventually*, you don't need to slog through everything when you're starting. Leviticus is difficult but to understand everything it is an important book to read, *eventually*, when you've got a grounding in the easier stuff and *if* you're interested in fully understanding. The cultic rituals and religious purity rules are central to ancient Israelite religious life and Second Temple Judaism, the latter of which is the context in which Jesus lived.

>not loving Leviticus
what the fuck is wrong with you?

You're of course right that Leviticus is important to understand Hebrews or something. But that isn't really the level someone who struggles with Psalms will or should exegete on.
For a good understanding of the overall bible not everything is necessary

>christlarping
I could ask you the same

call me a "christlarper" idgaf
just because I'm not a catholic or a sola scripuratard. go fuck yourself

but on the real:
Leviticus draws an amazing picture of Jewish life under Torah. Keeping in mind that it comes directly after Exodus's instructions on how to build the motherfucking ARK OF THE COVENANT! I hope I don't need to explain why that's interesting.

Anyway, you got sacrifices with some really cool ritualistic blood magic, and then further on you have some cool stuff on Aaron's bloodline and the priesthood. I haven't even started with how the whole thing could be interpreted to be the first theory of hygiene, predating germ theory and everything else.

I didn't even mention the Nazarines or the various punishments for not following the instructions.

You can go back to reading the Gospel of Luke now

ps: if I was gonna larp for this I would have been Jewish, schmuck

>I haven't even started with how the whole thing could be interpreted to be the first theory of hygiene, predating germ theory and everything else.
Oh so you're a Peterson pleb not a christlarper? Sorry then.
It's not a theory about germ theory people are instinctively revoked from feces and every culture ever except india defecated outside of the camp.

it's not just shit though
it's menstruation, weird skin conditions, touching a dead guy. lots of stuff

how to be clean: wash, wait, if all good then you are clean. if not, keep waiting. good luck

ps: I've been reading the bible since way before Peterson became a meme. Try again, insecuretard

I've literally googled upload file and packed it in a 7zip - I guess you can upload it to virustotal or give me a website to upload it to.

I doubt it is harboring viruses, as I don't have any viruses on my pc and I'm not tech illiterate, quite the opposite.

>ps: I've been reading the bible since way before Peterson became a meme. Try again, insecuretard
I haven't doubted that.

>lots of stuff
Lots of universal stuff because it's genetic. Go save your father from the belly of the whale you beta tryhard

>being this mad over a book some jewish priests wrote a few thousand years ago to improve their lives
I'm not gonna keep wasting my time here

Isaiah 6:9-10

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I liked the 1984 translation better.

Oh, and I've actually read most of it. But I've read many translations. I was raised as a JW so the translation still rings to me because I'm so familiar with it.

NRSV Catholic Edition

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why would you recommend a liberal bible translation as opposed to a more accurately/beautifully translated one?

Does ISV have apocrypha?

kek

NASB if accuracy is your main concern
KJV if you only want the literary merit
Catholic versions are usually too dynamic to be useful for serious studying.

Why aren't there one version everyone can agree on? Abrahamics still can't get their shit together.