>>>and (hold onto your hat <g>) the Bible.
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>>What version? I think the NIV version is easier to understand.
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>But King James is poetry. (not to mention the MVP)
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>Understanding may not always be a virtue - if you read Leviticus in NIV it is hard not to giggle.

Don't press me for details but there was a fairly recent article in The New Yorker about the translations of the Bible. This one said, in more or less words, that much of what we think we understand today is incorrect. Not incorrect necessarily in terms of faith, just incorrect translations. Some of the most famous passages were tarted up, so to speak, from the original Hebrew.

The bottom line, IMO, is this is not the word of God. It is the word of man.