Unauthorized copies of the RV then appeared in the US, having the American team suggestions in the main text.

In 1898, Oxford and Cambridge Universities published their editions of the RV with some American suggestions included.

[3][4] The American Standard Version entered the public domain on January 1, 1957 upon expiration of its copyright.

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.

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"[5] The ASV has been the basis of various revisions and new translations: