The NASB Bible translation is a literal or word-for-word translation of the Bible’s original written languages Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Since it’s publication in 1971 it has gained a reputation for it’s accuracy to the original texts. This may not seem like a significant thing to the modern reader, but the Bible has a long history of erroneous translations.

For centuries the Catholic church’s Latin Vulgate was the only other translation available which the church used for it’s liturgy and doctrinal rule. Other than the fact that only learned scholars and clergy could read the Latin Vulgate, it also had very inaccurate translations of the original Biblical texts.

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