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The English Standard Version (ESV) is a revision of the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version. The translators' stated purpose was to follow an "essentially literal" translation philosophywhile taking into account differences of grammar, syntax, and idiom between current literary English and the original languages.

The King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker, this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities.

The New American Standard Bible (NAS or NASB), also informally called the New American Standard Version (NASV) was first published in 1971. This edition of the NASB text was published in 1995. The NAS is widely regarded as the most literally translated of 20th-century English Bible translations.

The New American Standard Bible (NAS or NASB), also informally called the New American Standard Version (NASV) was first published in 1971. This most recent edition of the NASB text was published in 2020. The NAS is widely regarded as the most literally translated of 20th-century English Bible translations.

The New Living Translation (NLT) starting out as an effort to revise The Living Bible but evolved into a new English translation from the Hebrew and Greek texts. Some stylistic influences of The Living Bible remained in the first edition (1996), but these are less evident in the second edition (2004, 2007).

The New Revised Standard (NRS or NRSV) is a translation released in 1989 as an updated revision of the Revised Standard Version, which was itself an update of the American Standard Version. The NRSV was intended as a translation to serve devotional, liturgical and scholarly needs of the broadest possible range of religious adherents.

The World English Bible (also known as the WEB) is a free updated revision of the American Standard Version (1901). It is one of the few public domain, present-day English translations of the entire Bible, and it is freely distributed to the public using electronic formats. The Bible was created by volunteers using the ASV as the base text as part of the ebible.org project through Rainbow Missions, Inc., a Colorado nonprofit corporation.