Getting Kinda Old

[JohnDB]

Ok.
So looking through my library at several Bibles in the Bible section...(yes, I got a library with several bookshelves...not just a shelf with a few knicknacks)

And I got to thinking about the age of some of these. My first I owned was a lollipop KJV. (Age 6) Second one was a hard cover NIV (16). The cover is missing as it seen a lot of hard use.
Then I inherited a Jerusalem Bible and a parallel... picked up some interlinears.
But my favorite was one of the original NIV with study notes. The gold is off the edges. (Got it when 20) nicely leather bound. It's over 30 years old now. My name embossed on the front is losing it's metal. I paid dearly for it then. But it's been worth it.

The ones that I inherited are almost as old as me...

But then came along the family Bibles. When my ancestors came to America. They brought with them new Bibles (huge) with birth records and notes about my ancestors. (Even from the civil war...war of northern aggression according to the Bible)

I mostly use electronic Bibles these days. Kinda lazy I guess...but I still use my old faithful NIV with notes every Sunday.

How old are your Bibles?

 

[reba]

Hitch ,once a member here, my brother has a 1909 Scofield... that was our grandfathers ... i was given Dads old one.
A 1948 that was Grandmas

 

[Willie T]

My oldest is a KJV given to me when I was 33. I think it was about five years old then. That makes it almost 44.......... I think. (I'm so old, math confuses me anymore.)

 

[JohnDB]

The Old family Bibles...
They are RSV...not KJV.

 

[GodsGrace]

My oldest bible is an NASB which is about 40 years old.
But the oldest bible I own is from 1819.
And someone wrote something in it in that beautiful handwriting from back then, when it was almost an art and people weren't in a hurry to write because they had to use ink and a quil pen.
I wish I knew how to take good care of it.
I'm afraid it's going to just deteriorate...

 

[jasonc]

Chumash,post isreal 1948.

I have a bible app I use.

 

[for_his_glory]

The oldest is a James Moffet KJV copy-write 1922-1926, but I rarely use it. I have my very first KJV from Dec 4, 1966 when I was 12 and confirmed into the Church I was attending at that time. Wow, that was 51 years ago 2. The two I use the most are the Jerusalem Bible and the second the Open Bible, KJV, as my first Open Bible fell apart from years of use.