Old Testament, New Testament, and the older canons
Lectern
Geneva, the King James, the Douay-Rheims, the American Standard, and a modern public-domain English text. Deuterocanonical books stay on the Catholic shelf. 1 Enoch stays on the Ethiopian shelf. Every verse ends with a small speaker. Press it and a clear male voice starts at once, and keeps reading until you pause.
The 1769 Oxford text of the 1611 King James, long the common Bible of Anglican and Protestant churches.
A thread
One line, from the garden to Jude’s quotation of Enoch. Each stop is a real verse.
Protestant
66 books
The Old and New Testaments shared by the Reformed, Anglican, and most Protestant churches. Geneva, King James, the American Standard, and the World English Bible all follow this list.
Old Testament · Law
Old Testament · History
Old Testament · Wisdom
Old Testament · Prophets
New Testament · Gospels
New Testament · History
New Testament · Letters
New Testament · Apocalypse
Catholic
73 books
The Douay-Rheims canon, with the deuterocanon grouped so you can see what it adds. In this edition Esther and Daniel also carry the Greek additions.
Old Testament
Deuterocanon
New Testament
Jewish Tanakh
24 books, English order
The Hebrew canon in synagogue order: Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim. The wording is whichever English version you have open — not a separate rabbinic translation. Hebrew verse numbers sometimes differ by a line.
Torah
Nevi'im
Ketuvim
Ethiopian
1 Enoch
1 Enoch is scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It is not in the Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant canons. Jude 14–15 quotes it. The broader Orthodox churches keep a still longer Old Testament than the one on the Catholic shelf; those extra books are not on this desk.
1 Enoch · R. H. Charles
The speaker reads on from the verse you press, in clear modern English, in a normal male voice. It starts when you press it. Press pause to hold it, or the same speaker to go on. Turn clear voice off in the header to hear the words on the page. Verse numbers follow each edition and do not always match, especially in the Psalms.