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Name a book and a chapter.

The chapter's own words on one side, a reading of it on the other — where it sits in the Bible's one storyline, what it gathers up, and what the story does with it next.

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Every chapter is read once by the desk and then kept on the shelf for everyone, free to revisit anytime. You can open five brand-new chapters a day; once a chapter is written, it is checked against the text before it is marked as reviewed. How the readings are made →

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“For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you” · 1 Corinthians 11:23
The texts hold the authority, not this site · Acts 17:11