OMG This is amazing and the answer to all my questions: What is
the difference between the Catholic bible and the King James
bible? To correct additionally: KJV was not the first English
Bible (the Coverdale Bible was). And the Coverdale translation
was HIGHLY influenced by Tyndale's NT. (Tyndale was killed
before completing the OT). The KJV was made years later 1611.
And has seen numerous changes since that time. You are correct
that the KJV authors were not the best translators (especially
Hebrew) but, given the time and the tools at their disposal, the
did an admirable job. The New King James Bible is a recent
translation based on the Majority Text (they take the majority
of Greek texts as the best possible reading, unless other
reasons would dictate. The KJV (not the NKJV) is based on the
Textus Receptus... and that is based on the limited number of
Greek and Hebrew manuscripts (as well as Catholic Latin ones)
that they had in the late early 1600's. While most of the below
answer is correct, I would like