Old Testament
46 booksTorah · History · Wisdom · Prophets
From the first light of Genesis to the silence before the Messiah — law, poetry, prophecy, and the long memory of a people chosen and tested.
Read the Old TestamentBiblical Study
The Word,
in depth.
Three tools for reading Scripture the way it deserves to be read — carefully, contextually, and with everything we know about how it fits together. Open a chapter. Trace an era. Watch the Testaments speak to each other.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.”
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Three ways in
Each tool is useful on its own. Together they form a map of Scripture you can actually walk through.
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Scripture
The whole canon, read carefully
Read both the 66-book Protestant and 73-book Catholic canons side by side. Verse-level notes, cross-references, and reading progress that follows you chapter to chapter.
All 73 books31,102 verses
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Timeline
Creation to Revelation, in one view
Twelve eras and a hundred events — covenants, kingdoms, exile, miracles, and the early church — each anchored to the Scripture that records it and the sources that situate it.
100+ eventsTwelve eras
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Quote Map
How the Testaments speak to each other
Pick any book and see who it cites and who cites it, ranked by cross-reference count, with sample verse pairs you can open side by side for yourself.
93,000+ citationsEvery book mapped
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Quizzes
Test what you’ve read
A growing library of book-level and chapter-level quizzes. Read a chapter, then check what held — your best score follows you, book by book.
Overview + chapterFor every book we’ve quizzed
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Memorize
Hide the Word in your heart
Save a verse from any chapter and review it on a schedule that lengthens as it sticks. Four buttons — Again, Hard, Good, Easy — and the verses you struggle with come back sooner.
Spaced repetitionDaily review queue
EnterThe scope of Scripture
73
Books in the canon
1,189
Chapters
31,102
Verses
93K+
Cross-references
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Two testaments, one story
The canon is not a single book but a library written across centuries. It holds together because the later books cannot stop quoting the earlier ones.
New Testament
27 booksGospels · Acts · Epistles · Revelation
The life of Christ, the birth of the Church, and letters to the first communities wrestling with what it meant to follow him — closed by a vision of the end made new.
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Where to begin
Six chapters worth opening today. Each stands alone. Each opens onto the whole.
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Genesis 1
In the beginning
The first page — creation, order, and light.
Open chapter02
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd
Six verses that carried a civilization.
Open chapter03
Ecclesiastes 3
A time for every matter
The oldest meditation on time we still read.
Open chapter04
John 1
In the beginning was the Word
The Gospel opens where Genesis did.
Open chapter05
Romans 8
No condemnation
Paul at his most soaring — the heart of the letter.
Open chapter06
Revelation 21
A new heaven and a new earth
The last page — a city, a river, a tree.
Open chapter“Take up and read. Take up and read.”The voice Augustine heard in the garden at MilanConfessions, VIII.12
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Three ways to read
You do not have to read cover to cover. You have to start. Here are three rhythms, each one a real door in.
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For the first reader
Start with the Gospels
Begin with Mark — the shortest and most urgent — then John. Walk the life of Christ before anything else. The rest of Scripture opens from here.
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For the returning reader
Trace the story
Follow the arc from promise to fulfillment — creation, covenant, exile, and the new covenant in Christ. Use the Timeline to keep the shape in view.
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For the student
Read in conversation
Open the Quote Map and watch the New Testament quote the Old. See which verses the apostles could not stop returning to, and why they could not.
Open the book.
There is no way to study Scripture except by reading it. Pick a chapter. Start there.