The Bible

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Translated by Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton

1,118 chapters · about 57 h

The Old Testament as the Greek Septuagint gives it, the Bible of the early Church and of Orthodox Christians, in Sir Lancelot Brenton's English translation (1844–1851), with the Apocrypha.

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Genesis 1

1 In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth. 2 But the earth was unsightly and unfurnished, and darkness was over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the water. 3 And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God divided between the light and the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night, and there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it be a division between water and water, and it was so. 7 And God made the firmament, and God divided between the water which was under the firmament and the water which was above the firmament. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven, and God saw that it was good, and there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

9 And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit-tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth the herb of grass bearing seed according to its kind and according to its likeness, and the fruit tree bearing fruit whose seed is in it, according to its kind on the earth, and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

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Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton's English translation, copied word for word.
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  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
  • A preface, foreword or afterword, in 3 places
  • "Table shewing the order of several chapters and verses in Jeremiah": a reference table (40 blocks)
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
  • Cross references to other books of the Bible, each listed with its verse in the record (150 blocks)