Living Bibles International (LBI) (1968-1992) was an American religious publisher dedicated to producing modern language translations of the New Testament in around 100 languages worldwide.

The foundation was started by Kenneth N. Taylor as an extension of his work on Tyndale House

Tyndale House

Tyndale House is a publisher founded in 1962 by Kenneth N. Taylor, in order to publish his paraphrase of the Epistles, which he had composed while commuting to work at Moody Press in Chicago. The book appeared under the title Living Letters, and received a television endorsement from Billy Graham...

 (1962) and The Living Bible

The Living Bible

The Living Bible is an English version of the Bible created by Kenneth N. Taylor. It was first published in 1971. Unlike most English Bibles, The Living Bible is a paraphrase. Mr...

 in English (1971). In 1986 LBI moved to Naperville, Illinois

Naperville, Illinois

Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will Counties in Illinois in the United States, voted the second best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine in 2006. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 141,853. It is the fifth largest city in the state, behind Chicago,...

. LBI merged in 1992 with the International Bible Society

International Bible Society

Biblica, formerly named named IBS-STL Biblica, formerly named named IBS-STL Biblica, formerly named named IBS-STL (from a merger of International Bible Society (IBS) and Send the Light (STL), has its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is a nonprofit Christian organization that...

 (IBS, founded 1809).

Wikipedia content in relation to specific LBI translations

• Bible translations (Amharic)
  Bible translations (Amharic)
  Although Christianity became the state religion of Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the Bible was first translated into Ge'ez at about that time, only in the last two centuries have there appeared Translations of the Bible into Amharic.- Abu Rumi translation :...
  
  , NT 1985
• Bible translations (Arabic)
  Bible translations (Arabic)
  Translations of the Bible into Arabic are known from the early Christian churches in Syria, Egypt, Malta and Spain. Some of these translations are from Syriac , Coptic or Latin. The earliest fragment of the Old Testament in Arabic is a text of Psalm 77, found in the Umayyad Mosque, dating from the...
  
  , NT 1971
• Bible translations (Chinese), NT 1983