ISBN 9780310460534. NASB 2020. Thinline Bible, Premium Goatskin Leather, Brown, Premier Collection, Black Letter, Gauffered Edges, 2020 Text, Comfort Print. God. Zondervan Publishers. 1216 pages. [Source: Bought]

First sentence: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Start date: May 30, 2023. End date: July 13, 2023.

From GoodReads description (provided by publisher):
Features:

The full text of the New American Standard Bible, 2020 Text
Hand-bound in a supple goatskin leather cover
Smyth-sewn and edge-lined construction for flexibility and durability
Gauffered page edges (printed gilded edges), with gilt line and perimeter stitching
Three double-sided satin ribbon markers, each 3/8-inch wide
Premium European Bible paper, 36 gsm
Generous yapp
Raised hubs on spine
Two-color page design throughout
Line-matched Bible text minimizes see-through
Black-letter edition
Less than one inch thick
Double-column, verse-by-verse format
Full-color presentation page
Exclusive Zondervan NASB Comfort Print typeface
9-point print size

My thoughts: I love this one. I do. I love it so much. I love just about everything about it.

This isn't the first time I've read the NASB 2020 text. But it is the first time I read it and began to love it. I'm not saying it will replace the NASB 95 or the NASB 77. I still wish the psalms "sang" to me more in the NASB 2020. I'm not saying the translation is less accurate or inaccurate. Just that it doesn't "sing" to me like the wonderful, majestic older translations--particularly the 77 which retained the thees and thous. Still, even if I don't love, love, love the psalms as much as I'd hoped, the rest of the books definitely make up for it.

Psalm 23:1-6

The Lord is my shepherd,
I will not be in need.
He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.
He restores my soul;
He guides me in the paths of righteousness
For the sake of His name.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You have anointed my head with oil;
My cup overflows.
Certainly goodness and faithfulness will follow me all the days of my life,
And my dwelling will be in the house of the Lord forever.

I think one of my favorite things about this edition in particular were the three ribbon bookmarks. Would I have loved it even more with four? Probably. But it's so nice to have more than one or two! I loved reading from three different books. I think that helped me keep a good, strong pace through this one.

I also loved that it was black letter. ( )