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An English Bible drafted from the oldest wording we can recover.

Contemporary English, as a fluent reader would write it on 7 October 2026. The method is one click away. Footnotes stay on the verse. Books that are not translated yet say so. They do not carry sample English dressed up as scripture.

Read Genesis The method

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Genesis

Hebrew

In the Law, already in religious use well before 32 AD.

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Ruth

Hebrew

A Writing in the Hebrew Bible. In the Greek order it follows Judges.

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Tobit

Aramaic and Hebrew, then Greek

In religious use before 32 AD, and in both canons named for the first list. Where a Qumran Aramaic or Hebrew copy preserves the wording, that wording is preferred.

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74 other books are in the canon and still untranslated. The library lists every one of them, with an empty state instead of placeholder scripture.

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