Read the Bible
Sixty-six books in ten movements. Pick a group, pick a book, start reading.
- 66Books
- 1,189Chapters
- 10Movements
- 3TranslationsBSB · KJV · ASV
Old Testament
5 books · 187 chapters
Genesis through Deuteronomy: creation, the fall, the promise to Abraham, the exodus, and the covenant at Sinai. Everything the rest of the Bible assumes is established here: so a reader who knows the Torah reads the other sixty-one books with the lights on.
12 books · 249 chapters
Joshua through Esther: Israel enters the land, asks for a king, splits in two, and is carried off into exile: then a remnant comes home and rebuilds. God keeps His promise through people who keep breaking theirs.
5 books · 243 chapters
Job through Song of Solomon: the prayer book of the church, the proverb, the lament, and the love song. This is Scripture teaching you how to talk to God honestly and how to live wisely in front of Him.
5 books · 183 chapters
Isaiah through Daniel: five long witnesses spanning the fall of Jerusalem and the years in Babylon. Judgment announced, judgment carried out: and a Servant promised who would bear it in someone else's place.
12 books · 67 chapters
Hosea through Malachi: twelve short books written across roughly three hundred years. Short is not small: the day of the LORD, the coming shepherd, and Bethlehem named as the Messiah's town all sit in these pages.
New Testament
4 books · 89 chapters
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John: four accounts of one life, each written for a different reader. Read one straight through before you compare them: the differences are four angles on the same events, not four stories.
1 book · 28 chapters
Luke's second volume, and the bridge from the Gospels to the letters. The Spirit falls at Pentecost and in a single generation the church goes from one upper room to the capital of the empire.
14 books · 100 chapters
Romans through Philemon: thirteen letters to churches and to individuals, every one written into a real crisis. Doctrine worked out under pressure, with the pastoral answer attached to it.
7 books · 21 chapters
Hebrews through Jude: letters addressed to the church at large rather than to one city. Christ better than everything the old covenant offered, a faith that shows in what you do, and love with a spine in it.
1 book · 22 chapters
The unveiling of Jesus Christ, given to John on Patmos. The last book answers the first: the tree of life is back, the river runs again, and the curse laid down in Genesis 3 is finally undone.
Shelf engravings: Gustave Doré, Doré’s English Bible (1866) and the Doré Gospel plates — public domain. The sources registry →