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 ABOUT THE ASV OF 1901

 The American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible is in the
 Public Domain. Please feel free to copy it, give it away,
 memorize it, publish it, sell it, or whatever God leads you to
 do with it.
 
 The American Standard Version of 1901 is an Americanization of
 the English Revised Bible, which is an update of the KJV to less
 archaic spelling and greater accuracy of translation. It has
 been called "The Rock of Biblical Honesty." It is the product of
 the work of over 50 Evangelical Christian scholars.
 
 While the ASV retains many archaic word forms, it is still more
 understandable to the modern reader than the KJV in many
 passages. The ASV also forms the basis for several modern
 English translations, including the World English Bible.

 The ASV uses "Jehovah" for God's proper name. While the current
 consensus is that this Holy Name was more likely pronounced
 "Yahweh," it is refreshing to see this rendition instead of the
 overloading of the word "Lord" that the KJV, NASB, and many
 others do.

 Pronouns referring to God are not capitalized in the ASV, as
 they are not in the NIV and some others, breaking the tradition
 of the KJV. Since Hebrew has no such thing as tense, and the
 oldest Greek manuscripts are all upper case, anyway, this
 tradition was based only on English usage around 1600, anyway.
 Not capitalizing these pronouns solves some translational
 problems, such as the coronation psalms, which refer equally
 well to an earthly king and to God.