The American Standard Version is an offshoot of the Revised Version (RV). In 1872, a group of 30 scholars, representing numerous denominations, began work with their English counterparts on an update to the 1611 edition of the King James bible. in 1872. The American representatives of the project were selected by theologian Philip Schaff a prominent professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. The effort was primarily led by British clergy. As a result, an agreement was reached whereby the American contributions and suggestions would not be published for another 14 years. In 1901, the 14 year agreement between the American and British teams expired, and the Revised Version, Standard American Edition, as the ASV Bible was officially called, was first published.

The Douay–Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church. The New Testament portion was published in Reims, France, in 1582, in one volume with extensive commentary and notes. The Old Testament portion was published in two volumes by the University of Douai. The first volume, covering Genesis through Job, was published in 1609; the second, covering Psalms to 2 Machabees plus the apocrypha of the Clementine Vulgate was published in 1610.

The King James Version (KJV) is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker, this was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities. The first was the Great Bible commissioned in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second was the Bishops' Bible of 1568. In January 1604, King James I convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.