Favorite Bible Version

My father was a Bible fanatic - we must have had close to ten different bible's in the house growing up, eventually we narrowed it down to one, the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible, which was held for a long time to be the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church (that changed after Vat. II) Interestingly enough, as I was reading over everyone's posts, the whole thing about when death was introduced called to mind the belief that the Tree of Life in the garden of paradise was the means by which Adam and Eve sustained life, that was how God intended them to live forever, but with the fall and the subsequent removal from paradise, obviously access to the Tree of Life was cut off and death was introduced to man. I suggest that those of you who are interested in interpretations of the bible, check out the Douay-Rheims version. I want to say that it was put together around the time of the C. of Trent (Middle Ages) and I find it simple to understand. Doctrinally, as compared to Protestant versions, there are quite a few semantic differences - which of course make a huge difference. For example, in one Protestant version of the bible the angel announcing the birth of Our Lord to the shepherds exclaims, "Peace and goodwill to all men." The Catholic version is, "Peace to all men of goodwill." That is a huge difference in the content of those two phrases. Thanks for the thread, it was interesting reading everyone's replies.