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Originally Posted by danimal
I'm not fond of KJV and think we should supplement from other versions. However, KJV is essential to us because it is the version joseph smith was familiar with when he translated the book of mormon and many BOM-bible connections are made through the KJV that would not make sense without it.
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I get where you're coming from. I would mention, though, that non-English speakers in the Church have had to deal with the non-KJV component from the beginning, and there are now more non-English folks in the Church than English ones. I could see using KJV footnotes or putting the KJV-sensitive passages in an appendix. Language changes over time and scriptural texts have changed with it. Even the Catholic Church had to accede to Latin's obsolescence, and that after centuries of teaching that it was holy.
As a practical matter, I'm doing the supplementing you speak of. It's quite refreshing.