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by ksaj 91 days ago
Exactly. I would expect a lot of modern words do not appear in the KJV. Unless you're chumming around with William Shakespeare, a lot of what you say won't be there. It would make more sense to use NIV or one of the other modernized translations.

BTW: Cats are not mentioned in the Bible. They certainly existed at the time, especially since they were so important to the Egyptians.
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hjorthjort 91 days ago
In fact cats are mentioned in the bible, in the deuterocanonical book of Baruch 6:21 (6:22 in some versions). This was part of the bible up until the reformation and is still part of the bible for catholics and orthodox, but protestants consider it apocryphal.

https://bible.b-useful.com/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycomb...

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pmdulaney 91 days ago
As a Protestant you have not, of course, convinced me that "cat" is in the Bible, but that is a great comeback!

I think the award for the most theologically significant word not in the KJV (or any other English translation, for that matter) is "trinity".

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ksaj 89 days ago
Yes, I guess it's obvious I'm not Catholic, because I didn't know of this book.

Having said that, the verse says cats fly like birds. I have a strong feeling that, like unicorns, they mean a different animal that they happened to call "cat" or (mis)translated the original word as such.

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hjorthjort 91 days ago
Problem is NIV is not open source, technically I would need a license. There's lots of more modern translations, like the World English Bible.

I think using KJV is good for enhancing the joke though.

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