Legacy Standard Bible

The Legacy Standard Bible is a direct update of the New American Standard Bible of 1995, presented by its publishers explicitly as such rather than as an unrelated new translation. Covering the complete Bible, it works from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with the original languages checked verse by verse as its base text, and it stands in the tradition of formal-equivalence English versions that seek to mirror the structure and wording of the sources. Its guiding principles are formal equivalence and lexical consistency, the latter expressed in an emphasis on consistent word choices, so that a given term in the original languages is rendered uniformly where possible. Its most widely noted feature is the rendering of the divine name as "Yahweh" in the Old Testament, in place of the more traditional use of capitalized "LORD." It is classified as a substantial revision, with the NASB 1995 as its predecessor and base translation.