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Of the unencumbered versions, Young's Literal is popular, although stilted. He used the Textus Receptus and Masoretic Text. Its age means it hasn't kept up with
by memling 4y ago
Of the unencumbered versions, Young's Literal is popular, although stilted. He used the Textus Receptus and Masoretic Text. Its age means it hasn't kept up with modern discoveries, however. If you have some facility with the original languages, you can find critical editions that highlight significant variants.
Translation is a hard problem, even in modern language. Rendering a figure of speech literally often means finding a comparable phrase in the target language, for example. Word-for-word is not the same as literal!