Modern Standard VersionThe worlds first affirming and inclusive 2 column Old and New Testament Red Letter Edition. The Modern Standard Version is a complete translation of the Holy Bible in modern English. The Modern Standard Version is primarily that of the equivalence of a word for word translation. The Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac Peshitta, Aramaic Targum, Old Latin, Vulgate manuscripts, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (5th edition.)