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Johan said:
Tom, I quote from the preface of the ESV:

The ESV is based on the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible as found in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (2nd ed 1983) and on the Greek text in the 1993 editions of the Greek New Testament published by the United Bible Societies and Novum Testamentum Graece (27th edition) edited by Nestle and Aland.

It is perhaps worth visiting www.esv.org for more detailed information.

Hope this helps

Johan

Just to clarify, I don't think the ESV is based on the Byzantine text, but the critical text which, to my understanding, usually means the Alexandrine text is mostly used.

I had some translation questions recently in this thread

To my knowledge (possibly incorrect), there are no recent translations based on the Byzantine text. I find this curious. On the other hand, I tend to agree with what Pilgrim wrote.

John