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On one side are more literal translations, such as the King James Version (KJV), Revised Standard Version (RSV), and the English Standard Version (ESV), that use the word "man" and the masculine singular pronoun in Psalm 1. The RSV/ESV, for example, read "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked...; but his delight is in ...
[77] Even before the KJV, the Wycliffe version (1380) and the Douay-Rheims version (1582) had renderings that resembled the original (Revised Version) text. The ambiguity of the original reading has motivated some modern interpretations to attempt to identify "they"—e.g., the Good News Bible, the New American Standard, the NIV, and the New ...
The 1885 Revised Version was the first post–King James Version modern English Bible to gain popular acceptance. [4] It was used and quoted favorably by ministers, authors, and theologians in the late 1800s and throughout the 1900s, such as Andrew Murray , T. Austin-Sparks , Watchman Nee , H.L. Ellison , F.F. Bruce , and Clarence Larkin , in ...
Good News Translation/Good News Bible/Today's English Version: 1976, 1992 TCW: The Clear Word (paraphrase, non-official Seventh-day Adventist) 1994 CEV: Contemporary English Version: 1995 GW: God's Word: 1995 NLT: New Living Translation: 1996, 2004, 2015 MSG: The Message: 2002 RNT: Restored New Testament: 2009 INT: Interpreted New Testament: 2020
Revised English Bible: REB Modern English 1989 Revision of the New English Bible. The Scriptures: Modern English & Hebrew (Divine Names) 1993, revised 1998 & revised 2009 Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica), Textus Receptus Greek text Sacred Name Bible translation by the Institute for Scripture Research Simple English Bible: Modern English. 1978 ...
The eight English translations of the entire N.T. included (on quarter portions of facing pages) are those of the Bibles in English known as Tyndale's, Great Bible, Geneva Bible, Bishops' Bible, Douay-Rheims (the original Rheims N.T. thereof being included), Great Bible, Authorized "King James", Revised Version, and Revised Standard Version.
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...
A revised version was published as the New Berkeley Version or Modern Language Bible in 1969. According to editor-in-chief Gerrit Verkuyl: "The conviction that God wants His truth conveyed to His offspring in the language in which they think and live led me to produce the Berkeley Version (BV) of the New Testament. For I grew increasingly aware ...