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Thank you, I wondered how it would stack up.

It has been a long time ago that I was part of a team establishing reading level of books. The major criteria was the use and frequency of multi syllabic words, length and structure of sentences, structure of paragraphs and size of print. That last one may seem strange, but the smaller the print, the higher the readability.

Now, I suppose that it is all done electronically.

 

Using Readability-Score.com

I just copied and pasted this from Matthew (NASB):

But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.​

Came up with a reading level of 11.0

Then I revised the punctuation, only, so the sentences would be shorter:

But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him. Then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him. And, He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.​

Came up with a reading level of 5.6

Now, the typical reading level of an adult is about 5th to 6th grade in America.

I understand that some say the average reading level of college freshmen is about 7th grade, but most Americans barely made it out of high school!

It seems to me that publishers would use do diligence to address the issue of how they structure sentences. By shortening the length of sentences, the readability reaches far more of the common person's needs.

 

Why the commas?

I have reworded your sentence:
Then I revised the punctuation so the sentences would be shorter.

That's an incomplete sentence.

The 'and' is unnecessary. The comma is certainly unnecessary after the first word.

You seem to be comma-happy.​

You don't need a comma after the first word.

I will reword your sentence:
The average adult reading level of Americans is about the 5th to 6th grade level.

Publishers should use due diligence when it comes to sentence structuring.

But usually the term due diligence is concerned with contracts and things of a legal nature.

If sentences are shortened; they are more readable.

There, I pared your sixteen words down to eight.

 

The whole subject is just another KJVO attempt to justify their false doctrine. I'm no paragon of intelligence, but I've liked to read since early childhood, and had no trouble with the KJV even then, but i must admit I was thrown by some common words whose meaning has changed over 400 years. And for years, I wondered why the Bible wasn't published in OUR English.

Glad we now have such translations!

 

By that, do you mean British? If so, I think the Revised English Bible would rank at the top.

By that do you mean the way in which a translation uses the English language more artfully than other versions? Or do you mean the most accurate translation?

 

That is funny! Not sure if you meant it as a joke, but I found it humorous.

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And BOTH of them would require a higher reading level then presuppossed by either the Niv or the HCSB...

 

Stated simply: The KJV and NASU are at a higher reading level than the NIV and HCSB.

 

I wouldn't be concerned with 'grade level" ratings; 'tis much ado about nothing. One either understands a given Bible translation, or doesn't. And one can learn to understand one, as I did with Wycliffe's.