The Gideons ESV, an example

I do not own a Gideons ESV so that I may freely and easily check verses in it. However, I believe the “Daily Bible Reading” ESV on the Gideons web site is their own modified ESV. I do not know how you can easily search it, but you can look at the daily Bible reading. Thus, you can see, for example, some of its problems in the daily Bible reading for April 4, 2025 (Luke 9:37-62). Just notice three verses from their web site as an example:

Luke 9:54-56 in the NKJV, which the Gideons used before changing to the “Gideon ESV”

54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?” 55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.

Luke 9:54-56 in the ESV

54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them. 56 And they went on to another village.

Luke 9:54-56 in the ESV on the Gideons website

54 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 55 But he turned and rebuked them saying, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man came not to destroy people’s lives but to save them.” 56 And they went on to another village.

In verse 54, the Gideon ESV leaves out “just as Elijah did.” In verse 55 it keeps “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of” and moves “for the Son of Man came not to destroy people’s lives but to save them” into verse 55 as well – keeping verse 56 as it reads in the ESV. This is just one example; I am sure they can be multiplied over and over by one who has time to do so.

To me the Gideons ESV is just a weird hodge-podge creation. It haphazardly matches the ESV to the TR in places, and does not do so in other places.