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Large Print EditionFirst printing in August 1979Visit Tyndale online at tyndale.com.The Living Bible, copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.The Living Bible is a compilation of the Scripture paraphrases previously published by Tyndale House Publishersunder the following titles:Living Letters, 1962; Living Prophecies, 1965; Living Gospels, 1966; Living Psalms and Proverbs, 1967; LivingLessons of Life and Love, 1968; Living Books of Moses, 1969; Living History of Israel, 1970.The text of The Living Bible may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, or audio) up to and inclusiveof five hundred (500) verses without express written permission of the publisher, provided that the verses quoteddo not account for more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the work in which they are quoted, and provided thata complete book of the Bible is not quoted.When The Living Bible is quoted, one of the following credit lines must appear on the copyright page or titlepage of the work:Scripture quotations are taken from The Living Bible, copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation.Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from The Living Bible, copyright 1971 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream,Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.Scripture quotations marked TLB are taken from The Living Bible, copyright 1971 by TyndaleHouse Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. Allrights reserved.When quotations from The Living Bible text are used in nonsalable media, such as church bulletins, ordersof service, newsletters, transparencies, or similar media, a complete copyright notice is not required, but theinitials TLB must appear at the end of each quotation.Quotations in excess of five hundred (500) verses or twenty-five percent (25%) of the work, or other permissionrequests, must be approved in writing by Tyndale House Publishers. Send requests by e-mail to:permission@tyndale.com or call 630-668-8300, ext. 5023.Publication of any commentary or other Bible reference work produced for commercial sale that uses The LivingBible requires written permission for use of the TLB text.Color maps copyright 2018 by Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.TYNDALE, Tyndale’s quill logo, and LeatherLike are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Ministries. TuTone isa trademark of Tyndale House Ministries.ISBN 978-1-4143-7857-2ISBN 978-1-4964-0775-7ISBN 978-1-4143-7858-9ISBN 978-1-4964-3352-7ISBN 978-1-4964-3350-3ISBN 978-1-4964-3351-0Hardcover Green PaddedHardcover Green Padded IndexedLeatherLike Brown/TanLeatherLike Brown/Tan IndexedHardcover Green Padded Red Letter EditionHardcover Green Padded Red Letter Edition IndexedPrinted in China2627252624252324222321222021
CONTENTSAlphabetical Listing of Bible Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7Excerpt from William Tyndale’s Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A9Preface to The Living Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A11The Old TestamentGenesis. . . . . . . . .3Exodus . . . . . . . . 52Leviticus. . . . . . . 92Numbers . . . . . . 121Deuteronomy . . . 158Joshua. . . . . . . . 191Judges. . . . . . . . 213Ruth. . . . . . . . . 2361 Samuel. . . . . . 2392 Samuel. . . . . . 2691 Kings . . . . . . . 2942 Kings . . . . . . . 3231 Chronicles . . . . 3512 Chronicles . . . . 381Ezra. . . . . . . . . 413Nehemiah . . . . . 422Esther. . . . . . . . 436Job. . . . . . . . . . 443Psalms . . . . . . . 466Proverbs . . . . . . 527Ecclesiastes. . . . . 548Song of Solomon . 555Isaiah . . . . . . . . 560Jeremiah . . . . . . 607Lamentations. . . . 658Ezekiel . . . . . . . 663Daniel. . . . . . . .Hosea. . . . . . . .Joel . . . . . . . . .Amos . . . . . . . .Obadiah . . . . . .Jonah . . . . . . . .Micah. . . . . . . .Nahum . . . . . . .Habakkuk . . . . .Zephaniah. . . . .Haggai . . . . . . .Zechariah. . . . . .Malachi. . . . . . .708723731734740741743747749751754755764The New TestamentMatthew. . . . . . . 775Mark . . . . . . . . . 809Luke. . . . . . . . . 831John. . . . . . . . . 870Acts. . . . . . . . . 897Romans. . . . . . . 9321 Corinthians . . . . 9502 Corinthians . . . . 968Galatians . . . . . . 979Ephesians. . . . . . 985Philippians. . . . . 991Colossians . . . . . . 9951 Thessalonians. . . 9992 Thessalonians. . 10021 Timothy . . . . . 10042 Timothy . . . . . 1008Titus. . . . . . . . 1012Philemon. . . . . 1014Hebrews . . . . . .James . . . . . . .1 Peter . . . . . . .2 Peter . . . . . . .1 John. . . . . . .2 John. . . . . . .3 John. . . . . . .Jude. . . . . . . .Revelation . . . . .101510271032103610391043104410451046Bible Reading Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065Topical Concordance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075
Alphabetical Listing of Bible BooksActs. . . . . . . . . 897Amos . . . . . . . . 7341 Chronicles . . . . 3512 Chronicles . . . . 381Colossians. . . . . . 9951 Corinthians . . . . 9502 Corinthians . . . . 968Daniel. . . . . . . . 708Deuteronomy . . . . 158Ecclesiastes. . . . . 548Ephesians. . . . . . 985Esther. . . . . . . . 436Exodus . . . . . . . . 52Ezekiel . . . . . . . . 663Ezra. . . . . . . . . 413Galatians . . . . . . 979Genesis. . . . . . . . .3Habakkuk . . . . . . 749Haggai . . . . . . . . 754Hebrews . . . . . . 1015Hosea. . . . . . . . 723Isaiah . . . . . . . . 560James . . . . . . . 1027Jeremiah . . . . . . . 607Job. . . . . . . . . . 443Joel . . . . . . . . . . 731John. . . . . . . . . 8701 John. . . . . . . 10392 John. . . . . . . 10433 John. . . . . . . 1044Jonah . . . . . . . . 741Joshua. . . . . . . . 191Jude. . . . . . . . 1045Judges. . . . . . . . 2131 Kings . . . . . . . 2942 Kings . . . . . . . 323Lamentations. . . . 658Leviticus . . . . . . . 92Luke. . . . . . . . . 831Malachi. . . . . . . 764Mark . . . . . . . . . 809Matthew . . . . . . . 775Micah. . . . . . . . 743Nahum . . . . . . . 747Nehemiah . . . . . . 422Numbers . . . . . . 121Obadiah . . . . . . . 7401 Peter . . . . . . . 10322 Peter . . . . . . . 1036Philemon. . . . . 1014Philippians. . . . . 991Proverbs . . . . . . . 527Psalms . . . . . . . . 466Revelation . . . . . 1046Romans. . . . . . . 932Ruth. . . . . . . . . 2361 Samuel. . . . . . . 2392 Samuel. . . . . . . 269Song of Solomon. . 5551 Thessalonians. . . 9992 Thessalonians. . 10021 Timothy . . . . . 10042 Timothy . . . . . 1008Titus. . . . . . . . 1012Zechariah. . . . . . 755Zephaniah. . . . . . 751
Excerpt from William Tyndale’s Prologueto the first printed English New Testament,published in 1525:I have here translated, brethren and sisters most dear andtenderly beloved in Christ, the New Testament for yourspiritual edifying, consolation and solace, exhorting instantlyand beseeching those that are more knowledgeable in thetongues than I, and that have higher gifts of grace to interpretthe sense of Scripture, and meaning of the Spirit, than I,to consider and ponder my labor, and that with the spiritof meekness. And if they perceive in any places that I havenot attained the very sense of the tongue, or meaning of theScripture, or have not given the right English word, thatthey put to their hands to amend it, remembering that so istheir duty to do. For we have not received the gifts of God forourselves only, or for to hide them; but for to bestow themunto the honoring of God and Christ and edifying of thecongregation, which is the body of Christ.
P R E FAC EIn this wonderful day of many new translations and revisions, we cangreet another new one with either dread or joy! Dread that “peoplewill become confused” or joy that some will understand moreperfectly what the Bible is talking about. We choose the way of joy!For each new presentation of God’s Word will find its circle, large orsmall, of those to whom it will minister strength and blessing.This book, though arriving late on the current translationscene, has been under way for many years. It has undergone severalmajor manuscript revisions and has been under the careful scrutinyof a team of Greek and Hebrew experts to check content, and ofEnglish critics for style. Their many suggestions have been largelyfollowed, though none of those consulted feels entirely satisfiedwith the present result. This is therefore a tentative edition. Furthersuggestions as to both renderings and style will be gladly consideredas future printings are called for.A word should be said here about paraphrases. What are they? Toparaphrase is to restate something in different words than the authorused, normally with the goal of clarifying the meaning of what wasoriginally communicated. This book is a paraphrase of the Old andNew Testaments. Its purpose is to say as exactly as possible whatthe writers of the Scriptures meant, and to say it simply, expandingwhere necessary to promote a clear understanding for the modernreader.The Bible writers often used idioms and patterns of thought thatare hard for us to follow today. Frequently the thought sequence isfast-moving, leaving gaps for the reader to understand and fill in, orthe thought jumps ahead or backs up to something said before (asone would do in conversation) without clearly stating the antecedentreference. Sometimes the result for us, with our present-day stresson careful sentence construction and sequential logic, is that we areleft far behind.Then, too, the writers often have compressed enormous thoughtsinto single technical words that are full of meaning, but needexpansion and amplification if we are to be sure of understanding
what the author meant to include in such words as “justification,”“righteousness,” “redemption,” “baptism for the dead,” “elect,” and“saints.” Such amplification is permitted in a paraphrase but exceedsthe responsibilities of a strict translation.There are dangers in paraphrases, as well as value. For wheneverthe author’s exact words are not translated from the originallanguages, there is a possibility that the translator, however honest,may be giving the English reader something that the original writerdid not mean to say. This is because a paraphrase is guided not onlyby the translator’s skill in simplifying, but also by the clarity of hisunderstanding of what the author meant and by his theology. Forwhen the Greek or Hebrew is not clear, then the theology of thetranslator is his guide, along with his sense of logic, unless perchancethe translation is allowed to stand without any clear meaning at all.The theological lodestar in this book has been a rigid evangelicalposition.If this paraphrase helps to simplify the deep and often complexthoughts of the Word of God, and if it makes the Bible easier tounderstand and follow, deepening the Christian lives of its readersand making it easier for them to follow their Lord, then the bookhas achieved its goal.K E N N E T H N . TAY L O RAdapted from the preface to thefirst edition of Living Letters
OLDTESTAMENT
GENESIS01When God began creating* theheavens and the earth, 2the earthwas* a shapeless, chaotic mass,* with theSpirit of God brooding over the darkvapors.*3Then God said, “Let there be light.”And light appeared. 4-5And God waspleased with it and divided the lightfrom the darkness. He called the light“daytime,” and the darkness “nighttime.”Together they formed the first day.*6And God said, “Let the vapors separate* to form the sky above and theoceans below.” 7-8So God made the sky,dividing the vapor above from the waterbelow. This all happened on the secondday.*9-10Then God said, “Let the water beneath the sky be gathered into oceans sothat the dry land will emerge.” And soit was. Then God named the dry land“earth,” and the water “seas.” And Godwas pleased. 11-12And he said, “Let theearth burst forth with every sort of grassand seed-bearing plant, and fruit treeswith seeds inside the fruit, so that theseseeds will produce the kinds of plantsand fruits they came from.” And so itwas, and God was pleased. 13This all occurred on the third day.*14-15Then God said, “Let bright lightsappear in the sky to give light to the earthand to identify the day and the night;they shall bring about the seasons on theearth, and mark the days and years.” Andso it was. 16For God had made two hugelights, the sun and moon, to shine downupon the earth—the larger one, the sun,to preside over the day and the smallerone, the moon, to preside through thenight; he had also made the stars. 17AndGod set them in the sky to light theearth, 18and to preside over the day andnight, and to divide the light from thedarkness. And God was pleased. 19Thisall happened on the fourth day.*20Then God said, “Let the waters teemwith fish and other life, and let the skiesbe filled with birds of every kind.” 21-22SoGod created great sea animals, and everysort of fish and every kind of bird. AndGod looked at them with pleasure, andblessed them all. “Multiply and stock theoceans,” he told them, and to the birdshe said, “Let your numbers increase. Fillthe earth!” 23That ended the fifth day.*24And God said, “Let the earth bringforth every kind of animal—cattle andreptiles and wildlife of every kind.” Andso it was. 25God made all sorts of wild animals and cattle and reptiles. And God waspleased with what he had done.26Then God said, “Let us make a man*—someone like ourselves,* to be the masterof all life upon the earth and in the skiesand in the seas.”27So God made man like his Maker.Like God did God make man;Man and maid did he make them.28AndGod blessed them and toldthem, “Multiply and fill the earth andsubdue it; you are masters of the fishand birds and all the animals. 29Andlook! I have given you the seed-bearingplants throughout the earth and all thefruit trees for your food. 30And I’ve givenall the grass and plants to the animals1:1 When God began creating, or “In the beginning God created.” 1:2 the earth was, or “the earth became.” a shapeless,chaotic mass, or “shapeless and void.” over the dark vapors, or “over the cloud of darkness,” or “over the darkness and waters,”or “over the dark gaseous mass.” There is not one correct way to translate these words. 1:4-5 Together they formed the first day,literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, one day (or ‘period of time’).” 1:6 Let the vapors separate, literally,“Let there be a dome to divide the waters.” 1:7-8 This all happened on the second day, literally, “There was evening and therewas morning, a second day (or ‘period of time’).” 1:13 This all occurred on the third day, literally, “And there was evening andthere was morning, a third day (or ‘period of time’).” 1:19 This all happened on the fourth day, literally, “And there was eveningand there was morning, a fourth day (or ‘period of time’).” 1:23 That ended the fifth day, literally, “And there was evening andthere was morning, a fifth day (or ‘period of time’).” 1:26 a man, literally, “men.” someone like ourselves, literally, “Let us makeman in our image, in our likeness.”
GENESIS 2. . . Creation is completedand birds for their food.” 31Then Godlooked over all that he had made, and itwas excellent in every way. This endedthe sixth day.*02Now at last the heavens andearth were successfully completed, with all that they contained. 2Soon the seventh day, having finished histask, God ceased from this work he hadbeen doing, 3and God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because itwas the day when he ceased this workof creation.4Here is a summary of the events inthe creation of the heavens and earthwhen the Lord God made them.5There were no plants or grain sprouting up across the earth at first, for theLord God hadn’t sent any rain; nor wasthere anyone to farm the soil. 6(However,water welled up from the ground at certain places and flowed across the land.)7The time came when the Lord Godformed a man’s body from the dust ofthe ground* and breathed into it thebreath of life. And man became a livingperson.8Then the Lord God planted a gardenin Eden, to the east, and placed in thegarden the man he had formed. 9TheLord God planted all sorts of beautifultrees there in the garden, trees producing the choicest of fruit. At the center ofthe garden he placed the Tree of Life,and also the Tree of Conscience, givingknowledge of Good and Bad. 10A riverfrom the land of Eden flowed throughthe garden to water it; afterwards theriver divided into four branches. 11-12Oneof these was named the Pishon; it windsacross the entire length of the land ofHavilah,* where nuggets of pure goldare found, also beautiful bdellium andeven lapis lazuli. 13The second branchis called the Gihon, crossing the entirelength of the land of Cush. 14The thirdbranch is the Tigris, which flows to theeast of the city of Asher. And the fourthis the Euphrates.415TheLord God placed the man inthe Garden of Eden as its gardener, totend and care for it. 16-17But the LordGod gave the man this warning: “Youmay eat any fruit in the garden exceptfruit from the Tree of Conscience—forits fruit will open your eyes to make youaware of right and wrong, good and bad.If you eat its fruit, you will be doomedto die.”18And the Lord God said, “It isn’tgood for man to be alone; I will makea companion for him, a helper suited tohis needs.” 19-20So the Lord God formedfrom the soil every kind of animal andbird, and brought them to the man to seewhat he would call them; and whateverhe called them, that was their name. Butstill there was no proper helper for theman. 21Then the Lord God caused theman to fall into a deep sleep, and tookone of his ribs and closed up the placefrom which he had removed it, 22andmade the rib into a woman, and broughther to the man.23“This is it!” Adam exclaimed. “Sheis part of my own bone and flesh! Hername is ‘woman’ because she was takenout of a man.” 24This explains why aman leaves his father and mother andis joined to his wife in such a way thatthe two become one person.* 25Now although the man and his wife were bothnaked, neither of them was embarrassedor ashamed.03The serpent was the craftiestof all the creatures the LordGod had made. So the serpent came tothe woman. “Really?” he asked. “None ofthe fruit in the garden? God says youmustn’t eat any of it?”2-3“Of course we may eat it,” the womantold him. “It’s only the fruit from the treeat the center of the garden that we arenot to eat. God says we mustn’t eat it oreven touch it, or we will die.”4“That’s a lie!” the serpent hissed. “You’llnot die! 5God knows very well that the instant you eat it you will become like him,1:31 This ended the sixth day, literally, “And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day (or ‘period of time’).” 2:7 fromthe dust of the ground, or “from a lump of soil,” or “from clods in the soil,” or “from a clod of clay.” 2:11-12 the land of Havilah,located along the border of Babylonia. 2:24 become one person, literally, “become one flesh.”
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Proverbs 527 Psalms 466 Revelation 1046 Romans 932 Ruth 236 . of a team of Greek and Hebrew experts to check content, and of English critics for style Their many suggestions have been largely . and making
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