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...to your computer, free of chargeThe Holy Bible is a collection of books. It includes the 39 books of sacred Hebrew scriptures called the Old Testament, and it includes the 27 books of the New Testament, originally penned in Greek, that relate the life and teaching of Jesus and of the early Church. We cannot recommend highly enough the direct reading of the text itself. The following links allow you to download the entire Bible or the individual books to your computer. If you are unfamiliar with the Bible, you may wish to begin by reading the book "John." If you have questions, or if we can help in any way, please contact us!
Entire Bible (KJV) The following link allows you to download the entire Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, as a ZIP archive (.zip file)1 containing a folder of 66 text documents, one for each book.
Individual Books Each of these files is in plain text (.txt)2 file format, and file sizes range from around 20KB to around 300KB. The largest of these files will take a minute or two to download with a dial-up connection, and most will take less. OLD TESTAMENT
NEW TESTAMENT
Credits 1. The ZIP file is a compressed archive, allowing faster download of a large file. When uncompressed or "extracted," it will produce an exact copy of the original files. The ability to open ZIP files is built-in to most current operating systems. If your computer does not automatically open the ZIP file, double-click on it, or right-click (or ctrl-click) and choose "extract all." If you are using an older operating system, you may need to download and install a small piece of utility software to open the ZIP file. If you are using Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, or 2000, ZipGenius is one of several free ZIP utilities currently available. If you are using a Mac operating system prior to OS X (released in 2001), the free MacZip utility runs on OS 7, OS 8, or OS 9. For more information about working with ZIP files, you may want to read "Working With ZIP Files". (No affiliation, endorsement or offer of technical support is implied.) 2. The text files will probably open immediately in your browser window, ready to read. If so, then they are probably being stored in a temporary cache on your computer. If you want to keep the text files so that you can read them later, even without an internet connection, be sure to save them to your computer's hard drive. Typically, to save a file for later, you would click on the File menu (near the upper left of the screen), then click on "Save as." Be sure you are saving the file as a TXT file, choose the location on your computer where you want to store the text file, then click Save or press the Enter/Return key. A simpler approach is to right click (or control-click) the book names on this page and select "Download linked file." If you are have trouble using this site, contact the webservant. This page was last updated on February 6, 2008. | ||
