Nobody watered anything down.
Here.....
http://bible.cc/genesis/1-1.htm
You can compare all the versions verse by verse, including the Catholic Bible, which has its own translation errors. In addition, there are links to the original Hebrew and Greek for word studies.
When you add to that, the notion that the Holy Spirit reveals different interpretations, to each of us individually, the compounded error rate is astounding.
A notion only in the imagination of Catholics. The Holy Spirit does not reveal different interpretations. He cannot contradict Himself as God cannot lie and cannot change.
I run into people all the time that still think that biblical translations are “a game of telephone” where errors get propagated with each subsequent translation.
The prince of this world has successfully propagated this lie.
The truth is that every translation goes back to the original text in the Greek or Hebrew, and there are no significant errors in the translations.
However, there was a bit of a problem with the Catholic translation where the route to salvation was misinterpreted as “do penance” instead of “repent”.