Jehovah's Witnesses..Where can I purchase one of your KJV and the other Bible that?

Question

you claim to have printed? I would love to have one..where can I purchase them at?

Silenced Lamb..I agree with you..My mom has publications from them since the very early 60's..and never has a Bible been purchased from them other than the NWT..Exactly when I wonder were these other Bibles printed ..and where are they now...and I would love to see one ..to see if they changed anything in them..would be interesting to look for myself.

Answer 1

Jehovah's Witnesses do not "sell" literature, and have not published a Witness-specific edition of KJV for decades.

Of course, the ubiquity of "Authorized Version of 1611" means that each true Christian should be able to address the peculiarities of this so-called "King James Version" in connection with his personal ministry. As the foremost preachers the globe has ever seen, it seems likely that Jehovah's Witnesses will continue to distribute KJV indefinitely, as they have since their modern beginnings.

...About a century ago, Jehovah's Witnesses published and distributed an edition of KJV with their own 500-page appendix.
...A few decades later, JWs published and distributed a KJV with marginal cross references.
...In 1944, Jehovah's Witnesses began printing and distributing the American Standard Version, which used the name "Jehovah" throughout and so was much preferred by most Witnesses.
...By the latter half of the 20th century, Jehovah's Witnesses ceased to publish or print a Witness-specific edition of KJV, but simply buy and distribute whatever edition is convenient and available from various independent printeries around the globe.


Incidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses have never pretended that one particular translation is inspired or infallible in a way that others are not. They do not require their adherents or students to use any particular translation, and their teachings can be readily learned using any quality translation of the Scriptures.

Until the 1990's, the New World Translation was only available in a handful of languages. For the vast majority of languages, Jehovah's Witnesses simply worked to procure a distribution agreement for the best translation available in that language. The overwhelming majority of these agreements did not involve any special edition for use by Jehovah's Witnesses, and nearly every one that did merely allowed appendices or other supplemental articles outside the body of the bible itself (such as to discuss the Divine Name, or Sheol/Hades/hell).

Thus, many dozens of different non-English translations were (and still are) distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses. In addition to NWT and KJV, Jehovah's Witnesses in 2007 also distribute English editions of The Living Bible, The Emphatic Diaglott, and the Kingdom Interlinear.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20021115/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19971215/article_01.htm

Answer 2

Yom Kippur was the only day of the year when it was permissible to speak the Name of God. Yes God does have a name, but it's not Jehovah or Yahweh. These names were created out of the four letters that Hebrew scribes used to represent God's name in the Old Testament. Wherever the word LORD appears all in caps, you'll find the Hebrew letters JHVH, (or YHWH) in the Hebrew text. Theologians call these four letters the tetragrammaton, which is Greek for "four letters". So, in effect these four letters are God's initials, standing for His real name which some say contains 72 syllables. Since Hebrew has no vowels, early English language translators added an E, an O, and an A, (vowels they took from from Elohim, a form of the Hebrew word meaning God and Adonai, Hebrew for Lord) to JHVH and created the name Jehovah. We used to think that was God's name. And in Hebrew the four letters are pronounced yod, he, wah, he, which probably gave rise to the "Yahweh" we use today. Neither one is really His name. As I've said, it was forbidden to speak God's actual name except for once a year on Yom Kippur when it was spoken 10 times. After the Temple was destroyed, the Yom Kippur ceremony gradually changed until the name of God ceased to be used and was subsequently lost. So no one alive today knows God's name, and it probably hasn't been spoken on Earth for about 1700 years. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Philippians 2:9 says that Jesus, or if you prefer the Hebrew, Yeshua is now the name above all names. This is now the name by which God chooses to be known.

Answer 3

Good "silenced lamb" that you mention John 1:1 in the Diaglot so everbody can see the way the apostle John Wrote the Famous verse and people will notice "God" and "god" written different an also the famous "a" that yes is added but the bible in greek in the book of Acts 28:6 is not the article "a" but in your bible added "a" but not do the same in john 1:1, why the translator added "a" in Act 28:6 and didn´t do the same in John 1:1?

The name of Jesus is above all name except of his father name (1 Corithians 15:26-28)

Answer 4

In addition to other translations of the Bible I have picked up from various sources over the years, I also have the following Bibles printed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society:

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (of course)
The American Standard Version (1901)
The King James Version
The Bible in Living English, translated by Steven T. Byington

As Well As:

The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
The Emphatic Diaglott

(Both of the last two are contain literal word-for-word English under Greek translation, with a more readable translation in a side column.)

Whether any of the above aside from The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures and The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures are still available I do not know. I haven't even asked in years.

Answer 5

Since I got the same bibles as Abdijah, I haven't had to request newer copies.

● Is it true that the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses are based on the New World Translation of the Bible?
The fact that the New World Translation bears out teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses does not prove that the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses are founded upon this Bible translation. Since 1879 The Watchtower has been published, setting forth the things that Jehovah’s witnesses believe and teach. The New World Translation, which the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society has accepted as a gift from the New World Bible Translation Committee, first began to be published in part in 1950, and volumes of it have been coming out from time to time since then. Consequently, the formulation of the Bible doctrine of Jehovah’s witnesses did not wait upon the New World Translation, beginning in 1950.

Up until 1950 the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses were based mainly upon the King James Version of the Bible, but in the course of years the publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in English alone have quoted from more than seventy different Bible translations produced in Christendom. This does not take into account the fact that our literature is published in more than 125 languages and that these foreign languages do not have the English New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. In all parts of the world Jehovah’s witnesses are proving their Bible-based beliefs to the people by the copy of the Bible that the householder may have or that he may recognize as authoritative. So the New World Translation comes along merely as a confirmation of the correctness of the teachings of Jehovah’s witnesses and does not constitute the foundation of their teachings.

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Answer 6

I have learned some about Jehovah Witnesses even though I am a member. As far as I know, they haven't printed any Bible but the have the Watchtower which is a magazine they print. You can buy the KJV anywhere books are sold.

Answer 7

"EVER NOTICED" that ITS CALLED " the Watchtower BIBLE and Tract Society" ?

The Reason that it's called the "BIBLE and tract Society" is Because over the MANY DECADES of the 1800's and 1900's Jehovah's CHRISTIAN Witnesses have purchased the RIGHTs 2 Publish MANY Bibles INcluding the KJV and the American Standard JUST 2 name a few !

So YOUr ATTEMPT to SOMEHOW Discredit the Watchtower Society because they don't PRESENTly POSESS and Distribute these Bibles is a "REAL STRETCH"

Answer 8

I am not a JW; possibility I will become one. I don't know what all your gripe is about "above every name" and "above every other name". What is the point you getting at??? How does it change the meaning of that scripture??? Above every name means (my opinion) "I don't care what the name is MY name JEHOVAH stands above ALL names." What part of that scripture is hard to understand? The key word in both scripture is "ABOVE". Do you want a scripture that makes a verse TOTALLY 100% changed in meaning? Here let me give one to you. All of you look at Revelations ch. 22 v.21: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you ALL. Amen. (KJB)
Same scripture 22:21: The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. (NIV)
So what's up with that? Two different Bibles and says "be with you all" and the other says "be with God's people".
Now that two verses changes the whole scripture doesn't it? Explain that one!

I don't know if I got it correct about Jehovah names or Jesus. But the last scripture (the final) scripture of the Bible would that closing not be important?

Answer 9

Well as you most likely know we don't sell ANY books. I do know that a dear friend of mine has, or had before she was hospitalised, a copy of an old Bible published by us that was NOT NWT. Who knows if you made her son an offer he might give it to you, though it has a sentimental value that is rather high.

Answer 10

I got mine from the Kingdon Hall, ABC. Both the King James and the NWT.

Hannah J Paul

ADDITIONAL:

Oh yes! Thanks Abdijah! Forgot about the American Standard Version (1901). I have that one in my library as well. Published by Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Sons. Copyright 1929 by International Council of Religious Education. It's a lovely Bible, really. :)

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