There used to be a Douai-rheims bible that could be read online

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There’s also the Haydock DR bible if you’d like footnotes a little more extensive than those at drbo. (I think both are the Challoner translation of the Bible text.)
haydock1859.tripod.com/

Or were you looking for the much older edition? I’ve not seen that one online; I’ve only seen the book at an adoration chapel I go to. The English is very difficult to understand and I only read in it very briefly because of that.
 
Nita said:
Was it the real old version, difficult to understand?
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The one with the "u"s instead of the "v"s was what I remember. There were other things that made it difficult to read. It was definitely older English.
 
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The one with the "u"s instead of the "v"s was what I remember. There were other things that made it difficult to read. It was definitely older English.
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That sounds like the one I saw and put back because of the difficulty. It must be one of the earlier translations from the late 1500’s or early 1600’s. I tried finding the text online but came up empty.
 
The Douay-Rheims is also available as a free add-on to E-Sword, a very handy little bit of Bible software which is also free. Get both, and you’ll have it on your desktop. 🙂
 
There’s also a REALLY great app (if you have a smart phone or tablet) called Laudate with MANY resources- prayers, the Catechism, bibles, readings, etc, that I believe has that bible.
🤷 I think so!
 
Pax Christi!

Great thread. Following!

Yes: Laudete is wonderful. Try it; you’ll love it!

God bless.
 
Nita said:
That sounds like the one I saw and put back because of the difficulty. It must be one of the earlier translations from the late 1500’s or early 1600’s. I tried finding the text online but came up empty.
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Indeed, I thought it was a good discovery. I wanted to save it as a reference (to show how the English language changes), but it’s too late. I’ll keep looking, even if it’s for one or two pages of Genesis.
 
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