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Douay-Rheims, original 1582–1610 edition · King James Version, 1769 Oxford; 1611 Apocrypha for deuterocanon · Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision (1899 American Edition) · Catholic Public Domain Version, 2009 · Clementine Vulgate, Latin (1592 Sixto-Clementine text) · Hebrew Bible, Westminster Leningrad Codex (Masoretic Text) · Septuagint, Greek Old Testament (Swete, Cambridge) · SBL Greek New Testament (Holmes, 2010)

The full text of Scripture, verse by verse, in four public-domain English editions: the Douay-Rheims (the historic Catholic translation) in its original 1582–1610 edition and in Challoner’s revision, the King James Version (including its 1611 Apocrypha for the deuterocanonical books), and the Catholic Public Domain Version (2009). Read any edition on its own, or switch between them on any chapter page. No account required.

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Old Testament

New Testament

Douay-Rheims Bible: the original Rheims New Testament (1582) and Douay Old Testament (1609–1610), not the later Challoner revision (public domain). King James Version, 1769 Oxford Standard Edition; 1611 edition for the deuterocanonical books (public domain). Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision, as most widely reprinted in the 1899 American Edition, John Murphy Company, Baltimore, MD (public domain). Catholic Public Domain Version, translated and edited by Ronald L. Conte Jr., dedicated by him to the public domain in perpetuity (sacredbible.org). Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis, the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate of 1592, in the Clementine Text Project transcription after Colunga-Turrado (Madrid, 1946), public domain. The Westminster Leningrad Codex, the Masoretic text of the Leningrad Codex of 1008, public domain, in the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible transcription (github.com/openscriptures/morphhb). Septuagint: The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, edited by H. B. Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1887-1930; public domain), in the Open Greek and Latin transcription (University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0. The cleaned text as shown here is offered under the same licence: /downloads/septuagint-swete.txt. Judges is given in the Alexandrinus text. The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, edited by Michael W. Holmes, copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

King James Version, 1769 Oxford Standard Edition; 1611 edition for the deuterocanonical books (public domain).

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