Which translation to use?

[Jerome]

...Jonathan Edwards' Bible probably was the Geneva Bible, and not the KJV,
...not so fine to attempt to push 'revisionist history'!

Who's revising history?
When Edwards was born in 1703, the Geneva Bible had been out of print for nearly sixty years.

 

[thomas15]

My advice, "collect 'em all"!

 

[EdSutton]

Who's revising history?
When Edwards was born in 1703, the Geneva Bible had been out of print for nearly sixty years.

You are correct. My brain, for some unknown reason, put Jonathan Edwards back a century, even after citing his birthday, just previously. He'd have been a really old preacher by the time he was preaching and heading Princeton, not to mention, he'd have had to have been born before there was even an English colony anywhere on North America. I never have any intent to revise history, but as I've said before, I probably should not publish posts when I am tired. And as I don't sleep well, as a rule, that is fairly often, and more than I'm even aware of, lots of times. I don't catch my mistakes, sometimes, when composing posts.

The Early Puritans did mostly use the Geneva Bible, in the early years from what I've been able to find out, and that is probably would have been carried at Ocracoke and Jamestown, as well. It would not have been very likely, IMO, that the giant Great Bible and/or Bishop's Bible was packed around very much, unlike the much smaller Geneva and later the KJV.

Outta' curiosity, what version/translation are you suggesting the OP use?

Ed