In 1627 the Codex Alexandrinus came to England as a gift to the king from the patriarch of Constantinople. It had been written in the 5th century. In 1830 a new attempt was made to limit the collected errors of the centuries, and active work began in 1872. The New Testament was finished in 1881 with the Old Testament following in 1885. This was the English Revised Version. In 1901 the American Standard Version was issued, based on the English version with about six hundred American preferred renderings.

The New International Version was produced in 1978. The New American Standard Bible was published in 1971 with an updated edition in 1995. The NASB was intended to revive interest in the fast-disappearing ASV of 1901. These later works are based on the later discovered Alexandrine texts rather than the earlier Byzantine.