Editing American Standard Version (section)

==Features==
The divine name of the Almighty (the [[Tetragrammaton]]) is consistently rendered ''[[Jehovah]]'' in 6,823 places of the ASV Old Testament, rather than ''{{LORD}}'' as it appears mostly in the [[King James Bible]] and [[Revised Version]] of 1881–85. There are seven verses in the King James Bible where the divine name appears: Genesis 22:14, Exodus 6:3, Exodus 17:15, [[Judges 6]]:24, [[Psalm 83]]:18, [[Isaiah 12:2]] and [[Isaiah 26]]:4 plus its abbreviated form, Jah, in Psalms 68:4. The English Revised Version (1881–1885, published with the Apocrypha in 1894) renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah where it appears in the King James Version, and another eight times in Exodus 6:2,6–8, [[Psalm 68]]:20, [[Isaiah 49]]:14, [[Jeremiah 16]]:21 and [[Habakkuk 3]]:19 plus as its abbreviated form, Jah, twice in [[Psalm 68]]:4 and [[Psalm 89]]:8.  The reason for this change, as the Committee explained in the preface, was that "the American Revisers [...] were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament".<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bible/asv.ii.html | contribution = Preface | edition = American | title = ASV | publisher = Christian Classics Ethereal Library}}.</ref>