1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; 2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding: 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity; 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path. 10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; 13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; 17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: 18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 2:1

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:2

Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:3

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

Proverbs 2:4

Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:5

For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding:

Proverbs 2:6

He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity;

Proverbs 2:7

That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:8

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path.

Proverbs 2:9

For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Proverbs 2:10

Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

Proverbs 2:11

To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

Proverbs 2:12

Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 2:13

Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Proverbs 2:14

Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

Proverbs 2:15

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 2:16

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

Proverbs 2:17

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

Proverbs 2:18

None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

Proverbs 2:19

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:20

For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

Proverbs 2:21

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 2:22

 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; 2 So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures: 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. 6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth `cometh' knowledge and understanding: 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; `He is' a shield to them that walk in integrity; 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and justice, And equity, `yea', every good path. 10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; 13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths: 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; 17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: 18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life: 20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it. 22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

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The American Standard Version (ASV) is rooted in the work that was done with the Revised Version (RV) (a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version of 1611). In 1870, an invitation was extended to American religious leaders for scholars to work on the RV project. A year later, Protestant theologian Philip Schaff chose 30 scholars representing the denominations of Baptist, Congregationalist, Dutch Reformed, Friends, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, and Unitarian. These scholars began work in 1872.

The RV New Testament was released In 1881; the Old Testament was published in 1885. The ASV was published in 1901 by Thomas Nelson & Sons. In 1928, the International Council of Religious Education (the body that later merged with the Federal Council of Churches to form the National Council of Churches) acquired the copyright from Nelson and renewed it the following year.

The divine name of the Almighty (the Tetragrammaton) is consistently rendered Jehovah in the ASV Old Testament, rather than LORD as it appears in the King James Bible.

The ASV was the basis of four revisions. They were the Revised Standard Version, 1971, the Amplified Bible, 1965, the New American Standard Bible, 1995, and the Recovery Version, 1999. A fifth revision, known as the World English Bible, was published in 2000 and was placed in the public domain. The ASV was also the basis for Kenneth N. Taylor's Bible paraphrase, The Living Bible, 1971.

This Bible is in the public domain in the United States. We are making it available in the same format in which we acquired it as a public service.

NT: Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857, (Reproduced in a single, continuous, form in Palmer 1881). 
OT: Masoretic Text with some Septuagint influence).

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