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I have moved this to our forum dedicated to books and resources. If you have not done so already, this would be a great product suggestion in our book requests forum.
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Seems liike a ridiculously small alteration to justify a new edition.
I prefer this to a stealth update, which is what we've gotten in the past, but the described updates aren't worth $10.
This is making me feel more confident in my drift over the last few years away from using the ESV as my default version. The text should stay fixed; minor stealth revisions cause confusion when people are trying to follow along with a previous edition.
The text should stay fixed; minor stealth revisions cause confusion when people are trying to follow along with a previous edition.
Is this really your experience? In small groups, I'm not used to expecting everyone has the same version and for a lectio divina start for meetings, I count of people using differing translations.
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@John Personally I prefer the fact that the 2011 and 2025 versions of those verses in Genesis are less interpretative and are simply a translation.
For this type of situation, I completely agree; a stealth edit would be disruptive. This, in my opinion, is a no-brainer and should be taken care of by the person preaching/leading the Bible study, even if there is a guest speaker. I know the Bible I read primarily from is the ESV 2011 text (but we don't have a projection screen or anything at my church). However, I think the point that @MJ. Smith is making is the rest of the congregation or members of the Bible study may not have the same translation of the Bible that the pastor/leader has.
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