Modern Speech Versions of the Bible: The Moffatt Bible

This is a popular modern-language Bible, published by Harper and Row with 1368 pages at $14.95. It may not be the best modern-language Bible, but it is far from being the worst, many rating it among the best. Moffatt, strangely, begins his Bible not with Genesis 1:1, but with 2:4a, This is the story of how the universe was formed. But as with many books in the Old Testament, this, the first, got its title from its opening words, which show that it began as most translations, including our...