Comment.
I actually investigated the Bible in several other languages, and KJV always turned out to be the most consistent one, when comparing the translation with the original language. I always attributed it to the fact that the translators of KJV had no agenda: King James said to translate the Bible accurately, and they did it. I figured it was not that hard to translate it accurately (if you knew what you were doing), but the translators of today always have an agenda: either simplify (I am sure that's not uncommon), make it sound good (the Message), translate it to allow more things that are really allowed (saying "spouse of one person at the present time" instead of "husband of one wife (altogether)" for the requirements of a deacon), &c.
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