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T H E

H O L Y

B I B L E

CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS

TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH
THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND
REVISED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND

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The Text Conformable to That of The Edition of 1611
Commonly Known as
The Authorized or King James Version
THE NAMES AND ORDER OF THE
BOOKS OF THE HOLY BIBLE
WITH THE NUMBER OF THEIR CHAPTERS

THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

Page Chapters Page Chapters
Genesis ...................... 1........... 50 Ecclesiastes..............821 .............8
Exodus......................71........... 40 Song of Songs ..........831 ........... 12
Leviticus ................. 130........... 27 Isaiah......................836 ........... 66
Numbers ................. 174........... 36 Jeremiah..................904 ........... 52
Deuteronomy........... 236........... 34 Lamentations ...........980 .............5
Joshua .................... 287........... 24 Ezekiel ....................987 ........... 48
Judges..................... 322........... 21 Daniel...................1057 ........... 12
Ruth....................... 357............. 4 Hosea....................1078 ........... 14
1 Samuel................. 362........... 31 Joel.......................1088 .............3
2 Samuel................. 407........... 24 Amos ....................1092 .............9
1 Kings................... 444........... 22 Obadiah ................1100 .............1
2 Kings................... 488........... 25 Jonah....................1102 .............4
1 Chronicles............ 530........... 29 Micah ...................1105 .............7
2 Chronicles............ 571........... 36 Nahum..................1111 .............3
Ezra........................ 619........... 10 Habakkuk..............1114 .............3
Nehemiah................ 634........... 13 Zephaniah .............1117 .............3
Esther..................... 654........... 10 Haggai ..................1120 .............2
Job......................... 665........... 42 Zechariah ..............1123 ........... 14
Psalms .................... 701..........150 Malachi.................1135 .............4
Proverbs.................. 790........... 31

THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Page Chapters .............................Page ...Chapters
Matthew ............... 1140........... 28 1 Timothy .............1420 .............6
Mark .................... 1185........... 16 2 Timothy .............1425 .............4
Luke..................... 1214........... 24 Titus.....................1429 .............3
John ..................... 1262........... 21 Philemon...............1431 .............1
Acts...................... 1298........... 28 Hebrews ................1432 ........... 13
Romans................. 1344........... 16 James ....................1446 .............5
1 Corinthians ........ 1362........... 16 1 Peter ..................1451 .............5
2 Corinthians ........ 1380........... 13 2 Peter ..................1456 .............3
Galatians .............. 1392............. 6 1 John...................1460 .............5
Ephesians.............. 1398............. 6 2 John...................1465 .............1
Philippians............ 1404............. 4 3 John...................1466 .............1
Colossians............. 1409............. 4 Jude......................1467 .............1
1 Thessalonians...... 1413............. 5 Revelation .............1469 ........... 22
2 Thessalonians...... 1417............. 3
THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED
G E N E S I S

CHAPTER 1 grass, and herb yielding seed after
1 In the beginning God created the his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
heaven and the earth. whose seed was in itself, after his
2 And the earth was without form, kind: and God saw that it was good.
and void; and darkness was upon the 13 And the evening and the morn-
face of the deep. And the Spirit of ing were the third day.
God moved upon the face of the wa- 14 ¶ And God said, Let there be
ters. lights in the firmament of the
3 And God said, Let there be light: heaven to divide the day from the
and there was light. night; and let them be for signs, and
4 And God saw the light, that it for seasons, and for days, and years:
was good: and God divided the light 15 And let them be for lights in the
from the darkness. firmament of the heaven to give
5 And God called the light Day, light upon the earth: and it was so.
and the darkness he called Night. 16 And God made two great lights;
And the evening and the morning the greater light to rule the day, and
were the first day. the lesser light to rule the night: he
6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a made the stars also.
firmament in the midst of the wa- 17 And God set them in the fir-
ters, and let it divide the waters mament of the heaven to give light
from the waters. upon the earth,
7 And God made the firmament, 18 And to rule over the day and
and divided the waters which were over the night, and to divide the
under the firmament from the waters light from the darkness: and God
which were above the firmament: and saw that it was good.
it was so. 19 And the evening and the morn-
8 And God called the firmament ing were the fourth day.
Heaven. And the evening and the 20 And God said, Let the waters
morning were the second day. bring forth abundantly the moving
9 ¶ And God said, Let the waters creature that hath life, and fowl that
under the heaven be gathered to- may fly above the earth in the open
gether unto one place, and let the firmament of heaven.
dry land appear: and it was so. 21 And God created great whales,
10 And God called the dry land and every living creature that
Earth; and the gathering together of moveth, which the waters brought
the waters called he Seas: and God forth abundantly, after their kind,
saw that it was good. and every winged fowl after his kind:
11 And God said, Let the earth and God saw that it was good.
bring forth grass, the herb yielding 22 And God blessed them, saying,
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the
after his kind, whose seed is in itself, waters in the seas, and let fowl mul-
upon the earth: and it was so. tiply in the earth.
12 And the earth brought forth 23 And the evening and the morn-
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ing were the fifth day. CHAPTER 2
24 ¶ And God said, Let the earth 1 Thus the heavens and the earth
bring forth the living creature after were finished, and all the host of
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, them.
and beast of the earth after his kind: 2 And on the seventh day God
and it was so. ended his work which he had made;
25 And God made the beast of the and he rested on the seventh day
earth after his kind, and cattle after from all his work which he had
their kind, and every thing that made.
creepeth upon the earth after his 3 And God blessed the seventh day,
kind: and God saw that it was good. and sanctified it: because that in it
26 ¶ And God said, Let us make he had rested from all his work
man in our image, after our likeness: which God created and made.
and let them have dominion over the 4 ¶ These are the generations of the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of heavens and of the earth when they
the air, and over the cattle, and over were created, in the day that the
all the earth, and over every creeping LORD God made the earth and the
thing that creepeth upon the earth. heavens,
27 So God created man in his own 5 And every plant of the field be-
image, in the image of God created fore it was in the earth, and every
he him; male and female created he herb of the field before it grew: for
them. the LORD God had not caused it to
28 And God blessed them, and God rain upon the earth, and there was
said unto them, Be fruitful, and not a man to till the ground.
multiply, and replenish the earth, 6 But there went up a mist from
and subdue it: and have dominion the earth, and watered the whole
over the fish of the sea, and over the face of the ground.
fowl of the air, and over every living 7 And the LORD God formed man
thing that moveth upon the earth. of the dust of the ground, and
29 ¶ And God said, Behold, I have breathed into his nostrils the breath
given you every herb bearing seed, of life; and man became a living
which is upon the face of all the soul.
earth, and every tree, in the which is 8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a
the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to garden eastward in Eden; and there
you it shall be for meat. he put the man whom he had
30 And to every beast of the earth, formed.
and to every fowl of the air, and to 9 And out of the ground made the
every thing that creepeth upon the LORD God to grow every tree that
earth, wherein there is life, I have is pleasant to the sight, and good for
given every green herb for meat: and food; the tree of life also in the
it was so. midst of the garden, and the tree of
31 And God saw every thing that knowledge of good and evil.
he had made, and, behold, it was 10 And a river went out of Eden to
very good. And the evening and the water the garden; and from thence it
morning were the sixth day. was parted, and became into four
heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison:

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that is it which compasseth the God had taken from man, made he a
whole land of Havilah, where there is woman, and brought her unto the
gold; man.
12 And the gold of that land is 23 And Adam said, This is now
good: there is bdellium and the onyx bone of my bones, and flesh of my
stone. flesh: she shall be called Woman, be-
13 And the name of the second cause she was taken out of Man.
river is Gihon: the same is it that 24 Therefore shall a man leave his
compasseth the whole land of Ethio- father and his mother, and shall
pia. cleave unto his wife: and they shall
14 And the name of the third river be one flesh.
is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth 25 And they were both naked, the
toward the east of Assyria. And the man and his wife, and were not
fourth river is Euphrates. ashamed.
15 And the LORD God took the
man, and put him into the garden of CHAPTER 3
Eden to dress it and to keep it. 1 Now the serpent was more subtil
16 And the LORD God com- than any beast of the field which the
manded the man, saying, Of every LORD God had made. And he said
tree of the garden thou mayest freely unto the woman, Yea, hath God said,
eat: Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
17 But of the tree of the knowledge garden?
of good and evil, thou shalt not eat 2 And the woman said unto the
of it: for in the day that thou eatest serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
thereof thou shalt surely die. the trees of the garden:
18 ¶ And the LORD God said, It is 3 But of the fruit of the tree which
not good that the man should be is in the midst of the garden, God
alone; I will make him an help meet hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, nei-
for him. ther shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
19 And out of the ground the 4 And the serpent said unto the
LORD God formed every beast of woman, Ye shall not surely die:
the field, and every fowl of the air; 5 For God doth know that in the
and brought them unto Adam to see day ye eat thereof, then your eyes
what he would call them: and what- shall be opened, and ye shall be as
soever Adam called every living crea- gods, knowing good and evil.
ture, that was the name thereof. 6 And when the woman saw that
20 And Adam gave names to all the tree was good for food, and that
cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree
to every beast of the field; but for to be desired to make one wise, she
Adam there was not found an help took of the fruit thereof, and did
meet for him. eat, and gave also unto her husband
21 And the LORD God caused a with her; and he did eat.
deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he 7 And the eyes of them both were
slept: and he took one of his ribs, opened, and they knew that they
and closed up the flesh instead were naked; and they sewed fig leaves
thereof; together, and made themselves
22 And the rib, which the LORD aprons.
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8 And they heard the voice of the sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the
LORD God walking in the garden in days of thy life;
the cool of the day: and Adam and 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it
his wife hid themselves from the bring forth to thee; and thou shalt
presence of the LORD God amongst eat the herb of the field;
the trees of the garden. 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt
9 And the LORD God called unto thou eat bread, till thou return unto
Adam, and said unto him, Where art the ground; for out of it wast thou
thou? taken: for dust thou art, and unto
10 And he said, I heard thy voice dust shalt thou return.
in the garden, and I was afraid, be- 20 And Adam called his wife's
cause I was naked; and I hid myself. name Eve; because she was the
11 And he said, Who told thee that mother of all living.
thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of 21 Unto Adam also and to his wife
the tree, whereof I commanded thee did the LORD God make coats of
that thou shouldest not eat? skins, and clothed them.
12 And the man said, The woman 22 ¶ And the LORD God said, Be-
whom thou gavest to be with me, she hold, the man is become as one of
gave me of the tree, and I did eat. us, to know good and evil: and now,
13 And the LORD God said unto lest he put forth his hand, and take
the woman, What is this that thou also of the tree of life, and eat, and
hast done? And the woman said, The live for ever:
serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 23 Therefore the LORD God sent
14 And the LORD God said unto him forth from the garden of Eden,
the serpent, Because thou hast done to till the ground from whence he
this, thou art cursed above all cattle, was taken.
and above every beast of the field; 24 So he drove out the man; and he
upon thy belly shalt thou go, and placed at the east of the garden of
dust shalt thou eat all the days of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming
thy life: sword which turned every way, to
15 And I will put enmity between keep the way of the tree of life.
thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise CHAPTER 4
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his 1 And Adam knew Eve his wife;
heel. and she conceived, and bare Cain,
16 Unto the woman he said, I will and said, I have gotten a man from
greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy the LORD.
conception; in sorrow thou shalt 2 And she again bare his brother
bring forth children; and thy desire Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
shall be to thy husband, and he shall sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
rule over thee. ground.
17 And unto Adam he said, Because 3 And in process of time it came to
thou hast hearkened unto the voice pass, that Cain brought of the fruit
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the of the ground an offering unto the
tree, of which I commanded thee, LORD.
saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: 4 And Abel, he also brought of the
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in firstlings of his flock and of the fat
thereof. And the LORD had respect
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unto Abel and to his offering: upon Cain, lest any finding him
5 But unto Cain and to his offering should kill him.
he had not respect. And Cain was 16 ¶ And Cain went out from the
very wroth, and his countenance fell. presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
6 And the LORD said unto Cain, the land of Nod, on the east of
Why art thou wroth? and why is thy Eden.
countenance fallen? 17 And Cain knew his wife; and
7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not she conceived, and bare Enoch: and
be accepted? and if thou doest not he builded a city, and called the
well, sin lieth at the door. And unto name of the city, after the name of
thee shall be his desire, and thou his son, Enoch.
shalt rule over him. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad:
8 And Cain talked with Abel his and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehu-
brother: and it came to pass, when jael begat Methusael: and Methusael
they were in the field, that Cain rose begat Lamech.
up against Abel his brother, and slew 19 ¶ And Lamech took unto him
him. two wives: the name of the one was
9 ¶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Adah, and the name of the other Zil-
Where is Abel thy brother? And he lah.
said, I know not: Am I my brother's 20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the
keeper? father of such as dwell in tents, and
10 And he said, What hast thou of such as have cattle.
done? the voice of thy brother's 21 And his brother's name was
blood crieth unto me from the Jubal: he was the father of all such as
ground. handle the harp and organ.
11 And now art thou cursed from 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-
the earth, which hath opened her cain, an instructer of every artificer
mouth to receive thy brother's blood in brass and iron: and the sister of
from thy hand; Tubal-cain was Naamah.
12 When thou tillest the ground, it 23 And Lamech said unto his
shall not henceforth yield unto thee wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
her strength; a fugitive and a vaga- voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken
bond shalt thou be in the earth. unto my speech: for I have slain a
13 And Cain said unto the LORD, man to my wounding, and a young
My punishment is greater than I can man to my hurt.
bear. 24 If Cain shall be avenged seven-
14 Behold, thou hast driven me out fold, truly Lamech seventy and sev-
this day from the face of the earth; enfold.
and from thy face shall I be hid; and 25 ¶ And Adam knew his wife
I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond again; and she bare a son, and called
in the earth; and it shall come to his name Seth: For God, said she,
pass, that every one that findeth me hath appointed me another seed in-
shall slay me. stead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
15 And the LORD said unto him, 26 And to Seth, to him also there
Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, was born a son; and he called his
vengeance shall be taken on him sev- name Enos: then began men to call
enfold. And the LORD set a mark upon the name of the LORD.
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CHAPTER 5 begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
1 This is the book of the genera- years, and begat sons and daughters:
tions of Adam. In the day that God 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel
created man, in the likeness of God were eight hundred ninety and five
made he him; years: and he died.
2 Male and female created he them; 18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred
and blessed them, and called their sixty and two years, and he begat
name Adam, in the day when they Enoch:
were created. 19 And Jared lived after he begat
3 ¶ And Adam lived an hundred Enoch eight hundred years, and be-
and thirty years, and begat a son in gat sons and daughters:
his own likeness, after his image; 20 And all the days of Jared were
and called his name Seth: nine hundred sixty and two years:
4 And the days of Adam after he and he died.
had begotten Seth were eight hun- 21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five
dred years: and he begat sons and years, and begat Methuselah:
daughters: 22 And Enoch walked with God af-
5 And all the days that Adam lived ter he begat Methuselah three hun-
were nine hundred and thirty years: dred years, and begat sons and
and he died. daughters:
6 And Seth lived an hundred and 23 And all the days of Enoch were
five years, and begat Enos: three hundred sixty and five years:
7 And Seth lived after he begat 24 And Enoch walked with God:
Enos eight hundred and seven years, and he was not; for God took him.
and begat sons and daughters: 25 And Methuselah lived an hun-
8 And all the days of Seth were dred eighty and seven years, and be-
nine hundred and twelve years: and gat Lamech:
he died. 26 And Methuselah lived after he
9 ¶ And Enos lived ninety years, begat Lamech seven hundred eighty
and begat Cainan: and two years, and begat sons and
10 And Enos lived after he begat daughters:
Cainan eight hundred and fifteen 27 And all the days of Methuselah
years, and begat sons and daughters: were nine hundred sixty and nine
11 And all the days of Enos were years: and he died.
nine hundred and five years: and he 28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred
died. eighty and two years, and begat a
12 ¶ And Cainan lived seventy son:
years, and begat Mahalaleel: 29 And he called his name Noah,
13 And Cainan lived after he begat saying, This same shall comfort us
Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty concerning our work and toil of our
years, and begat sons and daughters: hands, because of the ground which
14 And all the days of Cainan were the LORD hath cursed.
nine hundred and ten years: and he 30 And Lamech lived after he begat
died. Noah five hundred ninety and five
15 ¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and years, and begat sons and daughters:
five years, and begat Jared: 31 And all the days of Lamech were
16 And Mahalaleel lived after he seven hundred seventy and seven
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years: and he died. Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
32 And Noah was five hundred 11 The earth also was corrupt be-
years old: and Noah begat Shem, fore God, and the earth was filled
Ham, and Japheth. with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth,
CHAPTER 6 and, behold, it was corrupt; for all
1 And it came to pass, when men flesh had corrupted his way upon the
began to multiply on the face of the earth.
earth, and daughters were born unto 13 And God said unto Noah, The
them, end of all flesh is come before me;
2 That the sons of God saw the for the earth is filled with violence
daughters of men that they were fair; through them; and, behold, I will
and they took them wives of all destroy them with the earth.
which they chose. 14 ¶ Make thee an ark of gopher
3 And the LORD said, My spirit wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
shall not always strive with man, for ark, and shalt pitch it within and
that he also is flesh: yet his days without with pitch.
shall be an hundred and twenty 15 And this is the fashion which
years. thou shalt make it of: The length of
4 There were giants in the earth in the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
those days; and also after that, when the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the
the sons of God came in unto the height of it thirty cubits.
daughters of men, and they bare 16 A window shalt thou make to
children to them, the same became the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou
mighty men which were of old, men finish it above; and the door of the
of renown. ark shalt thou set in the side thereof;
5 ¶ And GOD saw that the wicked- with lower, second, and third stories
ness of man was great in the earth, shalt thou make it.
and that every imagination of the 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring
thoughts of his heart was only evil a flood of waters upon the earth, to
continually. destroy all flesh, wherein is the
6 And it repented the LORD that breath of life, from under heaven;
he had made man on the earth, and and every thing that is in the earth
it grieved him at his heart. shall die.
7 And the LORD said, I will de- 18 But with thee will I establish my
stroy man whom I have created from covenant; and thou shalt come into
the face of the earth; both man, and the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy
beast, and the creeping thing, and wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
the fowls of the air; for it repenteth 19 And of every living thing of all
me that I have made them. flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes bring into the ark, to keep them alive
of the LORD. with thee; they shall be male and
9 ¶ These are the generations of female.
Noah: Noah was a just man and per- 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of
fect in his generations, and Noah cattle after their kind, of every
walked with God. creeping thing of the earth after his
10 And Noah begat three sons, kind, two of every sort shall come
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unto thee, to keep them alive. days, that the waters of the flood
21 And take thou unto thee of all were upon the earth.
food that is eaten, and thou shalt 11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of
gather it to thee; and it shall be for Noah's life, in the second month,
food for thee, and for them. the seventeenth day of the month,
22 Thus did Noah; according to all the same day were all the fountains
that God commanded him, so did of the great deep broken up, and the
he. windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth
CHAPTER 7 forty days and forty nights.
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, 13 In the selfsame day entered
Come thou and all thy house into Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Ja-
the ark; for thee have I seen right- pheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's
eous before me in this generation. wife, and the three wives of his sons
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt with them, into the ark;
take to thee by sevens, the male and 14 They, and every beast after his
his female: and of beasts that are not kind, and all the cattle after their
clean by two, the male and his fe- kind, and every creeping thing that
male. creepeth upon the earth after his
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, kind, and every fowl after his kind,
the male and the female; to keep every bird of every sort.
seed alive upon the face of all the 15 And they went in unto Noah
earth. into the ark, two and two of all
4 For yet seven days, and I will flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
cause it to rain upon the earth forty 16 And they that went in, went in
days and forty nights; and every liv- male and female of all flesh, as God
ing substance that I have made will I had commanded him: and the LORD
destroy from off the face of the shut him in.
earth. 17 And the flood was forty days
5 And Noah did according unto all upon the earth; and the waters in-
that the LORD commanded him. creased, and bare up the ark, and it
6 And Noah was six hundred years was lift up above the earth.
old when the flood of waters was 18 And the waters prevailed, and
upon the earth. were increased greatly upon the
7 ¶ And Noah went in, and his earth; and the ark went upon the
sons, and his wife, and his sons' face of the waters.
wives with him, into the ark, because 19 And the waters prevailed exceed-
of the waters of the flood. ingly upon the earth; and all the
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts high hills, that were under the whole
that are not clean, and of fowls, and heaven, were covered.
of every thing that creepeth upon 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the
the earth, waters prevail; and the mountains
9 There went in two and two unto were covered.
Noah into the ark, the male and the 21 And all flesh died that moved
female, as God had commanded upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
Noah. cattle, and of beast, and of every
10 And it came to pass after seven creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth, and every man:
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