The Bible
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"But the picture is complicated. Some argue that another early Bible, the Codex Vaticanus, is in fact older. And there are other earlier texts of almost all the books in the bible, though none pulled together into a single volume."
The bottom line here is that there are no credible translations that have fundamental differences in content. One sees immediately upon reading the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John that they do not contain the exact same information, although there are no contradictions (for example, Matthew, John and Luke go into more detail about Jesus' experience on the cross than Mark).
Even today, we have many translations: no fewer than 30 commonly used, and that is only in English. The important matter here though is that they do not differ from one another in the meat of them, the bones of the content – even if one version says fruit and another says fig. Savvy?