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Bible Reviews
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Global Contemporary English Version
Study
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Reading
Rating
Preliminary Review
This is a version of the
CEV
with Americanisms removed.
This version uses metric measurements and American
spelling.
(There is also a UK version of the
CEV which uses British spelling.)
You can look at my
CEV
page for some excellent
CEV
links.
The excellent links below, which apply specifically to
this version, can also assist your evaluation.
The good:
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Claims to be written at a fifth grade reading level
The bad:
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Tetragrammaton translated as
Lord
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No study edition
The rest:
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New translation; not a revision of an older
translation
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Replaces “biblical terminology”, with
more descriptive wording (e.g. “grace”
is translated as some form of “God treats us
much better than we deserve”)
—
JEP
I have discovered no articles about this version
available on the internet outside of the
GCEV home page.
The
CEV
is nearly identical, and there are several links to
articles on
that page.
Recommendation:
Unless you have some specific reason for excluding
deutero-canonical texts from your bible, I recommend
only the following editions: