The Holy Bible
The shelves.
You are welcome. Start with the King James if you are not sure. The other historic English Bibles are beside it. One God: the LORD.
Choose a Bible
- King James 1769The English Bible most people mean by “the King.”
- World English Public domainA modern English Bible, free to share.
- American Standard 1901A close, literal revision. Lines up cleanly with the King James.
- Geneva 1599The Reformation Bible, in its older spelling.
- Webster 1833Noah Webster’s revision. Some psalm titles sit inside verse 1.
- Darby 1890John Nelson Darby’s translation.
- Douay-Rheims 1899Traditional Catholic English. Psalms follow the Vulgate numbering.
- Young’s Literal 1898Word for word, for slow study.
The Law
Torah
Nevi’im
Prophets
Ketuvim
Writings
Before they were left out
The older books
- TobitDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.14
- JudithDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.16
- WisdomDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.19
- SirachDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.51
- BaruchDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.6
- 1 MaccabeesDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.16
- 2 MaccabeesDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.15
- Esther’s additionsDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.6
- Daniel’s additionsDouay-Rheims. These books stood in the older Bibles, including the 1611 King James, and many later printings left them out. For study.2
The witnesses
Gospels & Acts
The apostles
Letters
The apocalypse
Revelation
For study
Ethiopian canon
For study
Apostolic
What is not on these shelves
Modern copyrighted translations are not copied here. That includes the NIV, ESV, NASB, NKJV, NLT, and CSB. What you can read is the public-domain English: King James, Geneva, Webster, Darby, Young’s Literal, the American Standard, the Douay-Rheims, and the World English Bible.
The Nag Hammadi books, including the sayings Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip, are not copied here. The English people usually read is still under copyright. What is on the shelf are the books the older Bibles carried and many later ones left out: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, the Maccabees, and the additions to Esther and Daniel, in the Douay-Rheims.
The Gothic Bible of Wulfila survives in fragments, not as a full English canon. 1 Enoch and Jubilees are on the shelf in Charles’s 1917 English, for study. The Prayer of Manasseh and 1 and 2 Esdras were in some older Bibles; this copy did not include their English, so they are not pretended here. The scrolls room names the cave copies and opens the photographs. The stones room sets inscriptions beside the passages they touch. The Didache is on the shelf.
Nothing from another religion is on these shelves. Not the Quran, not the Book of Mormon, not the Vedas, not the Jain scriptures, not any other god. The God of this Bible is one: the LORD, Yahweh.