in the early years of the ministry, elder jacob o. meyer – the directing elder of the assemblies of yahweh - would preach using a king james version bible, simply replacing lord, jesus and god by the sacred names in the text (yahweh and yahshua). however, the kjv presented a problem in that, as pointed out by bible scholars, there are numerous errors in the text. during the late 19th century and on to the early 20th century, a number of notable bible translations came about which were more accurate than their predecessor, the kjv. these include the american standard version, the new international version and the new american standard bible. the year 1966 saw the significant progressive step of a bible produced by the roman catholic church, the jerusalem bible. in their effort to be literal with their translation they retained the sacred name yahweh in the old testament texts, but as a limited sacred name bible did not include it in the new testament texts. other limited sacred name bibles were produced such as the anchor bible, but none which seamlessly retained yahweh (or indeed yahshua) throughout the texts. this was one of the main reasons why the sacred scriptures bethel edition came in to being.