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Holy Bible, New Living Translation, Copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust HOLY BIBLE New Living Translation® SECOND EDITION Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Carol Stream, Illinois Visit Tyndale’s exciting Web site at www.tyndale.com. Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. My First Holy Bible copyright © 2005 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. The text of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, may be quoted in any form (written, visual, electronic, or audio) up to and inclusive of five hundred (500) verses without express written permission of the publisher, provided that the verses quoted do not account for more than 25 percent of the work in which they are quoted, and provided that a complete book of the Bible is not quoted. 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Each sale of the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, benefits Wycliffe Bible Translators. Wycliffe is working with partners around the world to accomplish Vision 2025—an initiative to start a Bible translation program in every language group that needs it by the year 2025. CONTENTS Alphabetical Listing of Bible Books . A7 A Note to Readers. A9 Introduction to the New Living Translation . A11 Bible Translation Team . A19 THE OLD TESTAMENT GENESIS. 3 ECCLESIASTES . 778 EXODUS . 67 SONG OF SONGS. 788 LEVITICUS . 121 ISAIAH . 795 NUMBERS . 160 JEREMIAH. 877 DEUTERONOMY. 214 LAMENTATIONS . 955 JOSHUA . 259 EZEKIEL . 964 JUDGES . 289 DANIEL. 1026 RUTH. 319 HOSEA . 1045 1 SAMUEL. 324 JOEL. 1058 2 SAMUEL. 362 AMOS. 1063 1 KINGS . 396 OBADIAH . 1073 2 KINGS . 435 JONAH . 1075 1 CHRONICLES. 474 MICAH . 1078 2 CHRONICLES. 514 NAHUM . 1086 EZRA . 558 HABAKKUK. 1090 NEHEMIAH . 572 ZEPHANIAH. 1094 ESTHER . 591 HAGGAI . 1099 JOB . 601 ZECHARIAH. 1102 PSALMS . 641 MALACHI . 1114 PROVERBS . 742 THE NEW TESTAMENT MATTHEW . 1121 1 TIMOTHY . 1395 MARK . 1165 2 TIMOTHY . 1400 LUKE . 1193 TITUS. 1404 JOHN . 1239 PHILEMON . 1407 ACTS . 1272 HEBREWS . 1409 ROMANS. 1314 JAMES . 1424 1 CORINTHIANS. 1334 1 PETER . 1429 2 CORINTHIANS. 1352 2 PETER . 1435 GALATIANS . 1364 1 JOHN . 1439 EPHESIANS . 1371 2 JOHN . 1444 PHILIPPIANS . 1378 3 JOHN . 1445 COLOSSIANS . 1383 JUDE . 1446 1 THESSALONIANS . 1388 REVELATION . 1448 2 THESSALONIANS . 1392 Where Can I Find It? . 1471 Great Stories of the Bible. 1473 NLT Dictionary / Concordance . 1477 Alphabetical Listing of Bible Books ACTS . 1272 JUDGES . 289 AMOS. 1063 1 KINGS . 396 1 CHRONICLES. 474 2 KINGS . 435 2 CHRONICLES. 514 LAMENTATIONS . 955 COLOSSIANS . 1383 LEVITICUS . 121 1 CORINTHIANS. 1334 LUKE . 1193 2 CORINTHIANS. 1352 MALACHI . 1114 DANIEL. 1026 MARK . 1165 DEUTERONOMY. 214 MATTHEW . 1121 ECCLESIASTES . 778 MICAH . 1078 EPHESIANS . 1371 NAHUM . 1086 ESTHER . 591 NEHEMIAH . 572 EXODUS . 67 NUMBERS . 160 EZEKIEL . 964 OBADIAH . 1073 EZRA . 558 1 PETER . 1429 GALATIANS . 1364 2 PETER . 1435 GENESIS. 3 PHILEMON . 1407 HABAKKUK. 1090 PHILIPPIANS . 1378 HAGGAI . 1099 PROVERBS . 742 HEBREWS . 1409 PSALMS . 641 HOSEA . 1045 REVELATION . 1448 ISAIAH . 795 ROMANS. 1314 JAMES . 1424 RUTH. 319 JEREMIAH. 877 1 SAMUEL. 324 JOB . 601 2 SAMUEL. 362 JOEL. 1058 SONG OF SONGS. 788 JOHN . 1239 1 THESSALONIANS . 1388 1 JOHN . 1439 2 THESSALONIANS . 1392 2 JOHN . 1444 1 TIMOTHY . 1395 3 JOHN . 1445 2 TIMOTHY . 1400 JONAH . 1075 TITUS. 1404 JOSHUA . 259 ZECHARIAH. 1102 JUDE . 1446 ZEPHANIAH. 1094 OLD TESTAMENT Genesis The Account of Creation 1 produce the kinds of plants and trees In the beginning God created the from which they came.” And that is 1 heavens and the earth.* 2 The earth what happened. 12 The land produced was formless and empty, and darkness vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing covered the deep waters. And the Spirit plants, and trees with seed-bearing of God was hovering over the surface of fruit. Their seeds produced plants and the waters. trees of the same kind. And God saw 3 that it was good. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and 13 there was light. 4And God saw that the And evening passed and morning light was good. Then he separated the came, marking the third day. 5 light from the darkness. God called 14Then God said, “Let lights appear in the the light “day” and the darkness sky to separate the day from the night. “night.” Let them mark off the seasons, days, And evening passed and morning and years. 15Let these lights in the sky came, marking the first day. shine down on the earth.” And that is 16 6Then God said, “Let there be a space what happened. God made two great between the waters, to separate the lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the waters of the heavens from the waters 17 of the earth.” 7And that is what night. He also made the stars. God set happened. God made this space to these lights in the sky to light the earth, separate the waters of the earth from 18 the waters of the heavens. 8God called to govern the day and night, and to the space “sky.” separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And evening passed and morning 19 came, marking the second day. And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day. 9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath 20 the sky flow together into one place, Then God said, “Let the waters swarm so dry ground may appear.” And that with fish and other life. Let the skies is what happened. 10God called the dry be filled with birds of every kind.” ground “land” and the waters “seas.” 21So God created great sea creatures And God saw that it was good. 11Then and every living thing that scurries God said, “Let the land sprout with and swarms in the water, and every vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing sort of bird—each producing plant, and trees that grow seed- offspring of the same kind. And God bearing fruit. These seeds will then saw that it was good. 22 Then God 1:1 Or In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, . Or When God began to create the heavens and the earth, . GENESIS 2 4 blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and made, and he saw that it was very multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and good! let the birds multiply on the earth.” And evening passed and morning 23 And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day. 2 came, marking the fifth day. 24Then God said, “Let the earth produce So the creation of the heavens and 2 the earth and everything in them every sort of animal, each producing 2 offspring of the same kind—livestock, was completed. On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, small animals that scurry along the 3 ground, and wild animals.” And that so.
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