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There are so many Bible translations are available today. Are Bible translations coming faster and faster, a look at if Bible translations publishing rate is increasing. I grew up in the sixties and seventies with the King James Bible. A few other translations were available but I didn’t know much about them. During my college years I saw more of these newer translations. Today it seems like there are just so many translations. It seems they are arriving at a faster pace all the time and a person can hardly keep up with them, let alone chose the best one for themselves. So how bad is it, really?
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Bible Versification: Those Bible Verses Are Not Miss Numbered.
Sometimes there are variations in the way different Bible translations or versions label verses. All Bible verse identifications are man-made and not considered "God inspired." If you are reading a book that references a verse where the author uses one translation and you look the verse up in a different translation, there is a possibility you will discover the verse is not the one you expected or even seems to be missing. Maybe it is not that the book gave you the wrong verse. A person should suspect versification differences when they find a verse saying something totally different than it should have. First make sure you are in the correct place. Then investigate the surrounding verses to find the verse of interest. It may be identified differently but should basically say what you expect and it will usually be in the same order among other verses.
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Some Bible verses are disappearing because textual criticism revealed they are not in the early manuscripts or most reliable manuscripts and shouldn't be there. I recall years ago while reading my Bible, I stumbled across a note, “The earliest manuscripts and many other ancient witnesses do no have John 7:53-8:11.” I Thought, “What does that mean?” They had the verses right there. The verses were translated. “How could they say that?” I was very leery of this comment and I quietly looked past it as though it wasn’t here. I had never heard of such a thing.
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What is a bible translation and what should you expect from your bible? This article discusses the various translation philosophies and what to look for and the pitfalls to avoid in choosing a bible translation.