[size=+1]Well , I could say whatever helps you read. But;Then I couldn't sleep at night.
So I would use a King James version , you know, the one comparable to the 1611. Why ? Because You can use a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with it, it's numbers are keys to the King James version ( Not the new king James )...
That will help you look up words in the Hebrew and Greek , etc. Those are the languages the old bible manuscripts are written in. And it will let you look up those meanings. Those languages didn't always carry well over into the English, so some meaning was mixed up here an there. The Strong's concordance is useful ...
If you want some help with following the subject of what your reading, and some very good outlines with detailed information. I would really recommend a Companion Bible by E W Bullinger , also. The Companion Bible is a King James versions Bible with scholarly notes ( it's Not ;a commentary Bible ).
It has scholarly notes on a separate side column. This might not mean much to you, but, The Companion Bible's notes were put together using The Massorah.
The Massorah, is the original footnotes to the Biblical manuscripts. It helps to lock in meanings of words used in God's Words. So it helped make sure that when the Bible was copied , that every letter was in place and every word meant what it meant.
Real Bible scholars ; if they have a doubt about anything in the manuscripts , they use the Massorah to help them.
For some reason, I hear the King James translators, did not know the Massorah existed . And I doubt any modern translation of the Bible today used the Massorah either . It will be a very good idea to buy a companion Bible; because they used the Massorah to help them with their scholarly notes.... There are PDF scans of it online .( I have a few PDF files )
The The Apocrypha are books that were not considered to be authoritative scripture . For whatever the reason.
The word Apocrypha is Greek and means "those hidden away".
Books that are in the Apocrypha like : 1st & 2nd Esdras I would consider good books . I think they aline with the Bible we have. Also the story of Susanna. I don't know about the other books in there ; i haven't read all of them.
Whatever you read let the Word of God we have lead you to whats good or not. If you do read it ; get The Apocrypha translated by Edgar J. Goodspeed...
The translation you have should be fine for the moment, but I would not stay with it very long.
Here is a King James version Online :
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kjv/browse.htm if you have a comfortable computer screen to read from.
Here is a Companion Bible you can read online ( it might take some getting used to , have to use the small blue arrows to change pages in the Bible, :
'The Book of Job:' by Bullinger, E. W. (Ethelbert William), 1837-1913 - Page %CURPAGENUM% of %LASTPAGENUM%
You can also find a Strong's Concordance; at the same site.
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