No. The King James Bible is a Protestant translation, made for the Church of England in 1611. Catholics use translations the Church has approved: in the United States the New American Bible (NABRE) at Mass, and also the RSV and NRSV Catholic Editions, the Douay-Rheims and the Jerusalem Bible. Catholic Bibles have 73 books; most King James printings have 66. The Douay-Rheims, the older Catholic Bible in English, was translated from a different text, Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, and a handful…

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