The result was a word-for-word translation that is both accurate and readable. The team carefully adhered to the principles of literal translation and made no attempt to interpret Scripture through translation. More than twenty translators (conservative Bible scholars representing a variety of denominational backgrounds) spent nearly three years completing the project.
The Lockman Foundation completed an update of the NASB in 1995. Suited for personal reading, public worship, in-depth study, and Scripture memorization, the ESV is available in hundreds of print editions on and free digitally via mobile apps or online through ESV.org. While this translation followed the principles used in the ASV, the NASB should be viewed as a new translation rather than merely an update of the ASV. Created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors, the ESV Bible emphasizes 'word-for-word' accuracy, literary excellence, and depth of meaning. The NASB represents a conservative, literal approach to translation.
By the middle of the twentieth century, The Lockman Foundation, a nonprofit Christian corporation in La Habra, California, felt an urgency to preserve these and other lasting values of the ASV by incorporating recent discoveries of Hebrew and Greek textual sources and by rendering them into more current English, calling their translation the New American Standard Bible (NASB). A product of both British and American scholarship, the ASV has been highly regarded for its scholarship and accuracy. The American counterpart was published in 1901 as the American Standard Version. In the 1880s the King James Version became the basis for the English Revised Version. Stanley Life Principles Bible, 2nd Edition