MEV Bible Personal Size Large Print Cherry Brown: Modern English Version Imitation Leather – Large Print, October 28, 2024

Beautiful Bible. The cover is soft leather and feels like very high quality. The print is larger than in most Bibles and thus is easier to read.

I own the original 2014 edition of the MEV, and while I thought it was good (sort of like if the KJV was worded more like the NIV), it had a few typographical errors that the publishers didn't catch before it went to print. It took ten years, but I'm glad they caught those errors with the 2024 update and also improved on some things that I felt were weak in this translation. It's not perfect -- no English translation of the Bible is ever really perfect -- but it's good enough to be used to grow somebody's faith on. Now we just need to get this update in more editions. Bravo, Passio! Praise God for your efforts!

This is my first MEV (2024 edition) and I love it. I usually read NLT, but I also read my NKJV bible. The MEV (2024) is a happy medium. They kept the beauty of the NKJV while enhancing readability. I discovered this version on my YouVersion Bible app. This bible have 12 pt font size. The color of the red letters are nice as well. The pages have a nice redish/brown guilding on them.It would be a perfect bible if the paper was a better quality and thicker. It would also be great if they added two thicker ribbons instead of one thin ribbon.

I enjoy my Study Bibles and use them often, but sometimes I want a mostly text-only Bible that I can use purely for devotional reading. This MEV large print cherry brown personal Bible meets that need. It gives me a warm and friendly feeling because I can easily hold it and because I find it very attractive with its soft imitation leather cover, its pages that are not ultra thin, and its large print (which truly is large, dark, and very readable). This is a Bible that anyone could comfortably read in bed.The Bible has an occasional footnote and a useful 132-page double-column concordance. Its short, one-paragraph introductions to the various books, its smyth-sewn binding, its rose gold gilding on the pages and its satin ribbon add to its warm and friendly feeling and to the assurance that it will last a long time. Additionally, unlike many Bibles today, it is fairly inexpensive.I am not a Bible expert or scholar by any means but have read that this MEV Bible has some words or phrases that an update might improve. For example, in Isaiah 58:8, "reward" should really be "rear guard." In Psalm 10:5, the phrase "they scoff at him" would be better translated as "he scoffs at them." Any first edition of a Bible will have some places that an update would improve. Think of all the updates that have been made to the ESV translation. I am not taking off any stars because these places are not numerous and because it is a first edition. A page at the beginning even says, "Like all translations of the Bible, this translation of the Scriptures is subject to human limitations. . . . Should a mistake be found, please feel free to contact the publisher."If an update is in the works, it would be nice to have words that have been added to the text italicized, as is done in the KJV. In addition, I found all the references to "The Adversary" in the book of Job rather jarring. They also broke the rhythm of the lines. Why not just stick with Satan and perhaps include a note that his name means the Adversary? Finally, I don't understand why a footnote in John 8:7 indicates that 7:53-8:11 (the story of the woman caught in adultery) does not appear in the earliest GK manuscripts but there is no similar footnote for the longer ending of Mark (16:9-20), which most scholars seem to feel was not in the style of Mark and was added later.However, these suggestions do not take away from my enthusiasm about this Bible and my feeling that buying it right now was an excellent investment. The committee that put it together has succeeded very well in reaching a target audience of people who would like a modernized KJV Bible that happily and mostly keeps to the cadence and style of the original KJV, is very easy on the eyes, and is perfect for devotional reading.I would never give up reading the original KJV because it is difficult any more than I would give up reading Shakespeare because he is difficult. It is interesting to see the choices made by the translators as they worked to turn seventeenth-century language into modern speech. What is gained, and what is lost? A case can be made for both, the original and the modern, one alongside the other. I plan to read a book in the MEV first, a devotional reading, then read the same book in the original King James. As an English major, I will find doing so fascinating.

This translation is something I've always wanted to have on hand. The Bible is absolutely beautiful. The text size though is the best part. I think so many Bibles have such small print they are not even readable. Not so with this Bible, the text is completely readable. Would recommend!

I love the quality of this Bible and the easy translation. They letters were a little to small for me but Id recommend it to others with better eye site.

I like the KJV, but the amount of archaic words made it a real stop, look up a word, and go and was very disruptive to my reading experience. I have all the translations and but this will be my primary study Bible due to it's closeness of the KJV and my daily reader.

All in All a good bible. A majority of the pages take a little effort to turn the first time because of the gold leaf. A little blow at the top or bottom edge usually takes care of the sticking. I am happy with the price and quality.