Genesis to Revelation · 303 chapters
The whole Bible, told as one story.
In the order things happened, for readers eight and up, with every paragraph linked to the verses it retells. Beside it, the World English Bible exactly as published, the Catholic books included.
Or a day at a time: the reading plan, Genesis to Revelation in under ten months, at your own pace.
The Story, from beginning to end
Thirteen parts in the order things happened. The books that aren’t stories are woven in where they belong: the psalms with David, the prophets with their kings, Paul’s letters along his journeys.
Why we’re making it
The Bible isn’t arranged in the order things happened. Kings and Chronicles tell the same reigns twice, the psalms and the prophets sit apart from the lives they belong to, and four Gospels tell one life. That makes it hard to read straight through, for a child most of all.
So we’re retelling it as one story a child can follow from beginning to end, without ever leaving the Bible behind: every paragraph cites the verses it retells, and they open beside the story, exactly as published.
More about why we made it, how it’s made, and the choices behind it
Who it’s for
Anyone eight and up. A child can read it alone or hear it at bedtime, and an adult who has never made it through the Bible can read it without feeling it was written for children.
Every chapter can be read aloud to you. Where a chapter has something hard in it, a short note for parents says what, so you can decide how to read it together.
How it’s written
Faithful to the text
Nothing is added that the Bible doesn’t say, and nothing it tells is changed. Stories are told in full; long family lists and laws are summed up.
Hard parts included
The Bible tells of war, cruelty and grief, and so does the Story. Only the wording is ever softened, never what happened.
Meaning left to you
The Story tells what the text says, not what to make of it. Interpretation is for readers, their families and their churches.
Retold with AI, checked verse by verse
Each chapter is written with AI from the World English Bible. Code checks that every citation is real and no verse is skipped, a separate review compares each paragraph with its verses, and our editors read every chapter here, along with readers’ notes on it.
What’s here
- The StoryNovel chapters, or episodes with every verse reference and a short version of each. Listen to any chapter, and see its places on a map.
- Reading planGenesis to Revelation in under ten months, in the order things happened: a day at a time, at your own pace, with a mark for each day read.
- The BibleThe World English Bible as published, the Catholic books included. It’s in the public domain: free to read, copy and share.
- HymnsOld favorites with the words set large and the tune played on the piano, verse by verse, to sing along with.
- SearchFind a passage by its words or by what it’s about: “fisherman’s net” finds John 21.
- Who’s whoEvery person and place in the Story, how to say the name, and the chapters they appear in.
- MapOver 1,200 places, by part of the Story, each marked with how certain its location is.
- TimelineThe Story century by century, beside what else was happening in the world.
- AskQuestions about the Bible, answered by AI from the text, with every passage linked. For signed-in readers.
- Your notesHighlight, add notes and bookmark chapters. Signed in, you can also leave the editors a note on any passage of the Story.
Why “Fish the Right”
It comes from John 21. After Jesus rose from the dead, Peter and six of the other disciples fished all night and caught nothing. At daybreak a man on the beach called to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They did, and the net was too full of fish to haul in. Then one of them knew him: “It’s the Lord!”
About the dates
Every date is an estimate. From King David on, historians mostly agree to within a few decades. Earlier dates follow the Bible’s own numbers: 1 Kings 6:1, for example, puts the Exodus 480 years before Solomon began the temple, around 1450 BC, though many scholars place it later, around 1260 BC. Creation to the tower of Babel isn’t dated.