i have three... one that i failed to return to my catholic school when i graduated, which has sentimental value more than anything else, and a 'new american bible for catholics' which i got when i was a mentor in the RCIA program.  that is the one i tend to read the most.

the third is the bible that i had when i was just a kid, its called 'the childrens picture bible - catholic edition'.  its pretty chewed up, but i treat it like gold.

I'll try to remember them all:

King James Version - given to me as a teenager, with my name in gold on the front.

New English Bible (New Testament only) - I bought when it first came out on the recommendation of the minister who led Bible study.  A good readable translation for the time.

Good News Bible - we used it in Sunday School where I taught.  I think the copy I have now belonged to one of my kids.

New Jerusalem Bible - a widow invited me to 'help yourself' to any of her husband's books.  I choose this and often used it for Bible study  (Its a Catholic Bible).

Readers' Digest Condensed Bible - from the same collection.

New Revised Standard Version - paper back - given to me by my church when I graduated from my Christian Studies and Lay Ministry courses.

NRS - large print - because I liked the paper back so much but it was hard to see.  This one I can read from without holding it up to my face when I'm leading a service.  I love it.

The Five Gospels containing the Scholars Version of the Bible - tries to be a close in style to the original Greek as possible  (for instance Mark frequently changes his tense - Jesus climbs into a boat, where he would teach the people.   Also has the Gospel of Thomas which I use for reference and commentary by the members of the Jesus Seminar on words attributed to Jesus.

and

The Family Story Bible edited by Ralph Milton that is the best book of Bible stories for children that I have ever found.  I used to read it to my Granddaughter particularly during Advent.  Now I'm introducing it to my Grandson.

I probably have a few other Bibles around the house but I can't think of them right now.  

Trishcuit,

Hi,

Ummmmm, let's see. . .

KJV

NKJV

NIV

NIV Study Bible

NIV Student Bible

NRSV

NLT

Good News

The Message

Genevan Bible

Tanak

GNT3

Looks like 12.

Grace and peace to you.

John

Umm...2 'Extreme Faith" bibles, one newer and with a different cover than the other.   I think they are NKJV....

One day I'll have a million copies of every religious text!  Muahahahahaha!!

Assalaam Alaiykum

-Omni

KJV

New KJV (my favourite)

NIV Study Bible

NIV for teenagers

Day by Day Kids' Bible

Beginners' Bible (also for kids, a baptism present)

The Message

NRSV

Good News

The Five Gospels

There are a couple of Gideons' New Testaments hanging around somewhere, too.

When you guys say the five gospels, do you guys mean like, the pentateuch?  i.e Torah?

Thanks

Assalaam Alaiykum

-Omni

Hi Omni, 

The Five Gospels is also known as the Scholars Version.  It contains Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Thomas.  It is colour coded according to consensus of opinion re: the authenticity of the words attributed to Jesus.  It came out in 1993, and the authors are Robert Funk, Roy Hoover and the Jesus Seminar.

NRSV

NIV student bible

NIV pocket bible

RSV with the Apocrypha

KJV - used to be my grandma's

"Ignite" - God's Word Translation (kinda like "The Message")

"The Message Remix"

Namaste, 

You reminded me.  I should have said 2 KJV's.  One was my greatgrandfather's, and one was given to me on my 7th birthday.

ah, thank you paradox3.

Assalaam Alaiykum

-Omni

And P3, you just reminded me. I also have another bible (don't remember what version). It's a Precious Moments children's bible and has lots of pictures in it. I got it when I started Sunday School (about 6 yrs. old). It's mauve and has my name on the cover in gold letters.

 so many lovely keepsakes.  I saw a Jewish bible in the Christian book store a while back. NOT the Torah.  It intrigued me.

Jewish as in Hebrew?  Or  a Jewish interpretation of the Bible?

Assalaam Alaiykum

-Omni

3 King James Versions

3 different King James Study Bibles

Holman Christian Standard Bible

English Standard Version

NIV

2 different NKJV study Bibles

TNIV

NASB

NLT

14 Bibles

I have three:

my first is a precious moments KJV i got before i went to church camp when i was six or seven.

my second is the good news bible i got from sunday school, they are given to all those members of sunday school who are moving from grade 4 to 5.

my third it my NRSV that i got when i was confirmed. its the one i use the most.

Wow. it seems like everyone here has at least two copies of the bible! I have one. Just a regular old french New Testament one that I got from the grade school I was in. They handed one out to each graduating student. But whats the difference between the interpretations? I thought there was only The Bible( New and old testament), and the Tora that differed. How ignorant of me really! lol

yeah the bible has been translated and retranslated so many times (and chain translated, like...:aramaic to hebrew to greek to latin to olde english to modern english, ever heard of "lost in translation"?) that is hard to pin down the 'actual' meaning.  Which is why it's good to have multipul bibles to compare.

It also helps to be a Biblical scholar fluent in latin, ancient greek, aramaic, and hebrew (oh, and english lol).

Assalaam Alaiykum

-Omni

Aiii.

Ummm...

a Hebrew/English intralinear (Hebrew scriptures only)

a Greek/English intralinear (Gospels and Epistles only)

a Greek translation of the Gospels and Epistles

a Greek/English intralinear of the apocrypha

the Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society's version of the Hebrew scriptures)

a couple of Authorized Versions (aka King James Version)

a Revised Standard Version

a couple of New Revised Standard Version (one Anglicised version)

Scholars' Version (both The Five Gospels and the Complete Gospels)

The Message

The New Living 'Translation' (really a paraphrase)

A 'five translation' bible - the columns go across the page so you can see tranlation differences... I can't remember what the tranlations are.

New American

The Jerusalem Bible

The New Jerusalem Bible

Good News

Family Story Bible

New International Version

la bible (en francais)

a version of the Pentatuch that I can't remember the name of at the moment

ummm... I think I have two other translations on my office shelf.

Ah. That's wayyyyy too many!

Christ's peace - r

 I believe it was the Jewish Study Bible. I am quite interested in the roots of Christianity as it were.

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Jewish-Study-Bible-featuring-Jewish-...

Greetings!

I have . . .

KJV

NIV

Good News

NRSV

Hope, peace, joy, love . . .

None...burned them all.....make good kindling.

Hello everyone ........God bless you......

It is so wonderful to read that we all have bibles.......I have seven or eight myself...and a commentary..........another thread mentioned a time coming in the future where we would have to keep them secret ......I liked blackbelts response when he said his bible was in his heart.....I agree bb....my is also and no one can take that from us....

God bless each and everyone of you......

IJL:bg

i cant seem to get past 2 study bibles, i keep giving them out to new believers :)

I have three:

- 1896 American Standard Version (Nelson & Sons)

- 1954 New Standard KJV 'Red Letter Edition' (Hertel Co.)

- 1984 New World Translation

New World Translation is the Jehovahs Witness bible. It has been rewritten numerous times and is not really classified as a translation rather than a rewriiten one of the KJV. They keep correcting their rewritings because they are exposed as error.

During the 1950's, Watchtower leaders went beyond interpretation by producing their own version of the Bible, with hundreds of verses changed to fit Watchtower doctrine. And, their New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures continues to be rewritten every few years, with additional changes made to bring God's Word into closer agreement with what the organization teaches.

So BrettA, I'm starting to understand where you are coming from!!!

Be Blessed, (Honestly)

IB

There you go, IB... assuming that I've looked at the Watchtower Bible ("where [I] am coming from"), which I was given a year or two ago...  No, the only one I actually use of the three (for 50+ years and counting now) is the huge 1954 version, with its many indices, charts, guides and more, red typeface for Jesus' supposed words and normal-sized very readable typeface.  Hmmm... You seem wrong more often than most people I've read on this site.  Are you a fundy, perchance?

A wondie fundy LOL!!!!

Ah...  I'm starting to understand where he's coming from...

I'll probably never purchase a Bible for the simple fact that I can find more Bibles than I'll ever require here: www.biblegateway.com

I'm a wondie fundy too, I doubt you know where I'm coming from.

Bolt

Have no doubt, Bolt!  I certainly do not know, much because I don't recall reading anything you've written.  As fundy-ness doesn't affect people precisely the same, I'd never hazard where you're coming from.  But as I've (sadly) read a fair amount from IB and I've experienced a fair number of fundies in the past ~3 years, I am indeed starting to understand where he is coming from.  But we best not wander any more from the topic or we'll incur the wrath of Graeme or Serena.

The question isn't so much how many Bibles you have, but how many do you actually READ and STUDY.

I own a German Luther Bible (in German), and the English King James and NRSV versions. I read and compare all three, and have noticed significant differences between them, particularly between the German Luther version and the English versions.

Southpaw - how many Bibles do I read and study?  It depends.  Mostly in recent years my large print New Revised Standard Version is the one I read the most. 

For study of a gospel reading I often refer to The Five Gospels.  Sometimes I check out several translations:  The Jerusalem Bible, The New English Bible.   Sometimes I even check what Ralph Milton's take is on a particular story and I go to the Family Story Bible.  Seldom to the King James unless it is for a particular reading like the 23rd Psalm that I memorized 60 years ago from that versiou. 

Often it is whatever Bible is handiest at the moment - even the Good News. 

However it is years since I looked at the Readers' Digest Condensed Bible.  I'm not sure if I still have it. 

Why are you rewriting the question?

Did you think the original one wasn't up to par?

Be Blessed,

IB

Well we have one of the purse size variety. It's my husband's. He wants to keep it for reference sake, and we do dip in to check things on rare occasions. I was given one as a child but squished butterflies in it... We have read about the dead sea scrolls, and other books that refer to the bible, but I personally have dipped very little into the bible. A Jehova's Witness once gave me a horrified and angry look when I answered to him that I don't have a bible. I had to forcibly send him on his way! Good thing they're not all that pushy!

We also got a scarey page from Revelations taped to our door once in Alberta. It scared us some! 'Til we found out that everyone on our street got the same treatment!

One.  I need it for doing crosswords.

Peace

I have several bibles but find I really use www.biblegateway.com  even more than the hard copies. There are dozens of translations which are easy to compare. I also like the NT gospel comparison http://www.utoronto.ca/religion/synopsis/meta-5g.htm

Deb

I carry ASV,ESV,KJV,NASB,NIV,NRSV and TNIV as well as NAS Exhaustive Concordance.  NIV is my preference.  All together they weigh less than 1/2 lb.  I can also listen to the bible off the same machine.

Also have about 50 NLT New Testaments in paperback for giving away.  If you hold up a cardboard sign that says "will work for food" and my wife sees you, she'll give you a bible and $20.

I have one NIV bible. That's all I need. I think I treasure it more than if I had several.