Old Testament readings use the Septuagint , the Scripture the apostles quoted. Masoretic numbering shown for reference.Learn why

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Read Scripture in multiple translations with verse-by-verse Webster's 1828 dictionary definitions. Every word is tappable for its original English meaning.

Available Translations

LXXEnglish translation of the Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, published 1851.
LXX2012Modern American English edition of Brenton's Septuagint by Michael Paul Johnson (2012).
KJVAuthorized King James Version, 1769 Oxford edition.
WEBModern English translation in the public domain, based on the ASV.
GNVThe Bible of the Reformation and the Pilgrims, 1599 edition, in its original spelling. Pre-dates the King James Version, whose commissioning it prompted.
GNV1560The Apocrypha of the 1560 first edition, transcribed from images of the printed page. Original spelling throughout. A pre-King-James Reformation English Bible that still carried these books. Work in progress: see Sources for coverage and method.

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Beyond the Canon

Ancient writings the Apostles quoted inside the New Testament, read by the early Church for centuries but never received into the Western canon. Kept on a separate page so they are not confused with the received canon.

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