Someone point me towards the best Modern English translation

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>>2056743
bump

I've long grown out of limiting myself to one translation and now I read multiple versions at once.

http://studybible.info/parallel-bible

>>2056743
Depends on what you want/need or by whay you mean by "best."

If you want beauty and prose...
>1611/1769 King James Version.

If you want great translation and excellent readability...
>English Standard Version.

If you want the best translated, best manuscripted, closest to the literal meaning of the original Hebrew & Greek, put together by the highest caliber scholars in modern times...
>New American Standard Bible

>>2056743

Pure Cambridge Edition of the King James Version of the Bible.

>>2056743
learn hebrew, aramaic and koine greek

>>2056743

All english translations fall short to perfection, though the ESV and the Lexham bible are probably the best version since they preserve and add the dead sea scroll texts into the bible

>>2056955
This
I prefer the English standard version myself.
>>2056984
This too

>>2056743
KJV objectively, other versions were written to be more easily understood by the proles