I agree. Comparing translations is very helpful and so is using linguistic and exegetical resources to gain a deeper understanding of a word, verse, or larger passage and how then translators may have arrived at a particular point. Every translator will make mistakes somewhere; the challenge is finding out where we have made ours and correcting them.
There are some well-grounded men who have come from Masters, but there have also been a few wackos.
I believe that kjv Is the first or one of the first English translation, Proverbs 3:5, (Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths). I don't believe I should try to gain understanding of God word by comparing different translated Bibles, or try to understand it by using my own wisdom as this can open doors to me misunderstanding or misinterpreting the Bible, I believe that I should hold to one Bibles preferably the KJV and go before the Lord daily and ask him for all understanding of which i seek, because one word or a text can mean many different things, but it's only what God is saying in the text thats matters, so when I lean unto the Lord for understanding, he will teach me his true understanding leaving no room for misinterpretation.
Better still, I suggest get familiar with some of the on-line (either BLB, with a connection, E-Sword, and many others) tools that allow not only 'instant-lookup' of things like the Hebrew original words, but will show "first use," which is very valuable, and list ALL of the usages of that word, or even phrase. When you see the variations, it can be quite illuminating. And it will also give you the context for those words.
So the Word hated here is not what we would look at in the same English context. The Hebrew Word Sane pronounced Saw Nay. The first time we see this word used is with Jacob and Leah. This means less favored. Again not the way we look at it in the American English context. Now, we put some logic behind it, a man is not going to have sexual relations and children with someone he hates. This is just common sense. Also, we see this Passage play out with Abraham. God Blessed Ishmael because he was Abraham’s son. God made sure Ishmael had an inheritance.
E-Sword is my go to. For my computer and my phone. It allows me to use it even when there is no internet connection available.
I strongly encourage you to get e-sword and use it as a way to look at the original words when you see a passage that bears deeper study. It is very revealing. KJC is not bad but it still includes errors. Many are well documented and many are not.
KJV is a great translation. It’s mostly reliable and definitely better than the NIV. If it’s all you read, you’ll be well. But, there is some updates scholarship and updated modern language that can be adjusted. There’s no harm in consulting other versions to help you flavor your Jimmy.
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E-sword is a great tool, but not everybody has it. BLB, OTOH, can be used from anyone's phone or laptop that you may need to talk to. Likewise, the KJV is not my favorite translation, nor, IMHO, the best. But, like that other tool, it is ubiquitous.
That is why the NIV and NLT are towards the bottom of my list.
Tyndale translation (indeed he did translate the Pentateuch)
And doesn’t seem to harmonize with the Pentateuch.
when I was younger, we played a game that we called pas it on, a group of persons sit side by side each other, then the first persons on the end whisper something in ear of the second person, then the second person whispers the same thing in the ear of the third person and so on, until the message reaches the last person, the last person speaks the message out loud, and 9 times out of 10 the message is not the same as the first person told it, the message changes as it pass from person to person, this is the reason I prefer to use the kjv over other transaction, as it is one of the first few English translation Bibles.
And that is the very reason we should do our research from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. One of the Bibles we have is a translation into Hiligaynon that was based on the KJV. It has the errors of the KJV plus more errors into the next language.
Many of the newer translations seem to be moving further down the dynamic equivalence road. It's getting worse and worse.
Yes it is called Chinese telephone or telegraph. If you REALLY want to have some fun, you should play pictionary telegraph!