New third printing
Leatherette Edition
The complete Bible in a leatherette cover, with significant revisions throughout. 2,216 pages in a comfortable 10.5 point type size.
OrderFirst format update since 1873
Reading the Bible
is hard.
We fixed the page.
The Readable Bible is an accurate translation from the Hebrew and Greek that stops forcing every kind of writing into the same block of text. Genealogies become family trees. Census records become tables. Law becomes an outline. Same Scripture — finally shaped so you can follow it.
- 20+
- Modern formats
- 2,216
- Pages, 10.5pt type
- 13 yrs
- In translation
New third printing — leatherette cover, revised throughout.
You are not a bad reader.
It is a formatting problem.
Most people who want to read the Bible more often stall in the same places — the long lists of names, the legal sections, the tribal numbers, the building instructions. Not because the content is unimportant, but because it is presented as unbroken prose when it was never prose to begin with.
A census is data. A genealogy is a tree. A legal code is structured clauses. Every other kind of book learned to typeset these things differently. Bibles have not changed since indented paragraphs arrived in 1873.
The Readable Bible sets each passage in the form that fits it. Nothing is added and nothing is removed — it is simply arranged the way you already read.
Accurate
Translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek texts by credentialed scholars.
Approachable
Over twenty contemporary formats, chosen to match the kind of writing on the page.
Understandable
Clear modern English, without flattening the meaning of the original.
Groundbreaking
The first cover-to-cover formatting update in more than a hundred years.
Instead of plain text
This is the whole idea.
Every passage below is real text from The Readable Bible. The only thing that changed is the shape it was given on the page.
Descendants of Adam · Genesis 5:1–32
- Adam3
- Seth
A son in his own — i.e., Adam’s — likeness and image.
- Enosh6
- Kenan9
- Mahalalel12
- Jared15
- Enoch18
24 Enoch walked with God and vanished, because God took him.
- Methuselah21
- Lamech25
29 Lamech named him Noah, saying, “He will give us rest from our work, the toil of our hands working the ground that the LORD cursed.”
- Noah28–29
- Shem32HamJapheth
After Noah was 500 years old, he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Each name marked with an asterisk in the printed edition had other sons and daughters.
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Every edition carries the same translation and the same formats. Pick the binding that fits how you plan to read.
Complete Bible
Paperback Edition
The same complete cover-to-cover translation in over twenty modern formats, in an affordable paperback binding.
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Set or individual volumes
27-Book Set
Slim single volumes for devotional reading, small groups, carrying to church, or handing to a friend. Buy the set or one book at a time.
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Made to give away
Gospel of John, Gift Edition
No verse numbers interrupting the account. Five copies for a $25 donation to the Gospel Challenge Foundation, or larger quantities for a church or group.
Get copiesWhat readers and pastors say
I believe that this translation and its helpful notes will be a significant contribution to the translations available to contemporary readers of the Bible. It is easy to read and accessible.
Dennis Horton
Director of Ministry Guidance
Baylor University, Department of Religion
I use The Readable Bible Psalms for my sermon preparation. The format makes the flow of thought much easier to discern.
Pastor Steve Schoof
Marco Island Presbyterian Church
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The Anointed One
Everything written about Jesus by the people who knew him, woven into one continuous, chronological account and drawn from The Readable Bible Gospels.
It follows the thirty-three years he lived as a human being, from Bethlehem through his teaching and beyond — assembled so the story reads as a story. A good book to hand to someone who has strong opinions about Jesus but has never actually read about him.