New American Standard Bible

A major contemporary revision of the NASB 1995, the New American Standard Bible 2020 is intended to preserve formal accuracy while improving readability and modern English usage. It covers the complete Bible, translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and rests on updated critical original-language texts. Its translation philosophy is formal equivalence with increased readability, placing it in the lineage of literal English translations long favored for close study, teaching, and verse-by-verse comparison. Classified as a substantial revision, it takes the NASB 1995 as both its predecessor and base translation, continuing a line of revision work that has periodically brought the NASB into line with current scholarship and contemporary idiom. Among its distinctive features, it includes more gender-accurate renderings where context indicates mixed groups, and it makes numerous syntactic updates, adjusting sentence structure and word order to read more naturally in present-day English.