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A paraphrase is the restatement of an author's thoughts,using different words. The purpose of this version is for it to say asexactly as possible what the writers of the Scriptures meant, and to sayit simply, expanding where necessary for clear understanding by the modernreader. There is a danger in paraphrasing that the translator, though honest,may give the English reader something that the original writer did notmean to say. When the Greek or the Hebrew is not clear, the theology ofthe translator and his sense of logic are his guides. The theological guidein this version has been a rigid evangelical position.

This version has undergone several manuscript revisions.It has also been under the scrutiny of a team of Greek and Hebrew expertsto check the content and of English critics to check for style. Thus, thisedition is tentative.

It is a compilation of previous paraphrases by Tyndale: Living Letters(1962), Living Prophecies (1965), Living Gospels (1966), Living Psalms andProverbs (1967), Living Lessons of Life and Love (1968), LivingBooks of Moses (1969), and Living History of Israel (1970).

Tyndale House (1971)

[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]

Genesis1: 1, 2

When God began creating the heavens and the earth, theearth was at first a shapeless, chaotic mass, with the Spirit of God broodingover the dark vapors.

 
 

John1: 1 - 3

Before anything else existed, there was Christ, withGod. He has always been alive and is himself God. He created everythingthere is -- nothing exists that he didn't make.

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