NBV - 1969
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This version of the New Testament (1945) has gained forDr. Gerrit Verkuyl a place among the first rank of translators of the Bibleinto modern English. This version of the Old Testament (1959) under hiseditorship, exhibits the same characteristics of faithful rendering ofthe original texts into lively modern English that mark his New Testament.

The aim of this version was to achieve plain, up-to-dateexpression which reflects as directly as possible the meaning of the Hebrew,Aramaic, and Greek. It is not a paraphrase.

After twenty-five years, the need for revision becameevident. This revision was very extensive, while not being a retranslation.Explanatory notes were revised as well as added. Topical headings wererephrased.

Zondervan Publishing House (1969)

[Tyndale House, Cambridge, UnitedKingdom]

Genesis1: 1, 2

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.The earth was formless and empty, and darkness lay upon the face of thedeep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

 
 

John1: 1 - 3

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was withGod, and the Word was God. This is the One who was in the beginning withGod. Through Him everything came into being and without Him nothing thatexists came into being.

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