The Bible Library

These are the old Bibles — the ones that came before, written the way
they were written. We put them here so anybody can read them, free, exactly as
they were. No changing, no updating, no polishing. The Word going out as it was.

There are two Bibles in this library. Both are free for everyone, everywhere,
with no copyright on them at all.

Where Our Chapters Come From

Now hear this plainly, because it matters. The Revelation chapters we teach
here at Ancient Jubilee Restoration did not come from the King
James Bible, and they did not come from any newer Bible either. There is a lot
of talk — and rightly so — about things that got changed along the
way in the King James. So we went back past all of that.

Our chapters are built from the oldest writings anybody has: Hebrew and
Aramaic scrolls — including the Dead Sea Scrolls, hidden in caves and
found again in our own time — and the earliest Greek copies of the New
Testament, written on papyrus within a lifetime or two of the apostles. These
are older than anything Tyndale ever saw, older than anything Geneva
ever saw, and older than the King James by far. That is where our
chapters come from. The oldest. Nothing in between.

Where These Two Bibles Came From

Nothing here appeared out of nowhere. Every Bible has a chain behind it
— hands that copied, scholars that printed, translators that carried it
into English. Here is the chain, oldest first, so you can see it at a glance:

1. 
   

   Long ago — the oldest writings

   
   

   The ancient manuscripts

   
   

   Hebrew and Aramaic scrolls — including the Dead Sea Scrolls —
   and the earliest Greek copies of the New Testament, written on papyrus within a
   lifetime or two of the apostles. This is where it all begins — and this
   is where our chapters come from, going back past every English Bible
   ever printed.

   
   
2. 
   

   1500s — the first printed originals

   
   

   The printed Hebrew Bible and the printed Greek New Testament

   
   

   In Venice, 1524, Daniel Bomberg printed the great Hebrew Bible — the
   whole Old Testament in Hebrew, set in type for the first time in a form
   scholars still follow. That Hebrew Bible was never printed in English —
   not once, not ever. And Erasmus printed the Greek New Testament (1516, and
   again in 1522), putting the apostles’ own Greek into the hands of
   translators across Europe.

   
   
3. 
   

   1534 — English from the Greek and Hebrew, at last

   
   

   Tyndale’s New Testament

   
   

   William Tyndale took that Hebrew and that Greek and turned them into English
   — not from Latin, the way it had always been done, but from the original
   tongues themselves. The first time English readers ever held those words in
   their own language. He gave his life for it. His words became the backbone of
   every English Bible that followed.

   
   
4. 
   

   1560 — checked and completed

   
   

   The Geneva Bible

   
   

   English believers in Geneva took Tyndale’s work, translated the Old
   Testament from the Hebrew, and checked everything again against the Greek and
   Hebrew — standing on Tyndale’s shoulders and proving his work true.
   The 1599 edition — the one you can read here — is that same Bible,
   the one the Pilgrims carried.

   
   

That is the chain: the old scrolls, to the first printed Hebrew and Greek,
to Tyndale’s English, to Geneva — and our own chapters reaching
all the way back past every link to the oldest writings themselves.

A Note on the Spelling

You will see spellings like heauen, worlde,
loued, and Iesus. That is how they spelled it then, and we
left every word exactly as it was. Read it slow, sound it out — it is
the same English, just wearing older clothes.

Free for All

Both of these Bibles belong to everyone. They are public domain — no
one owns them, no one can take them back. Read them, share them, print them.
That is what they are here for.