Listen to the Bible
The film’s figures are the library as it stood in September 2026, when the film was made; the tables on the Listen to the Bible page are counted afresh on every visit. Its three readings are the site’s own recordings, played as a reader hears them and lit by the same verse timings: Isaiah 43:1–2 in the World English Bible (WEB), John 1:9–10 in the American Standard Version (ASV), and John 1:9 in the Greek Textus Receptus (GTR). The picture is drawn by Biblion from its own audio and text, none by hand and none generated by AI; the narration is a synthetic voice reading a written script, and the music was composed with ElevenLabs.
Every chapter of the Bible can be heard here, in four complete translations and in the original Hebrew and Greek — 412 hours of reading in all. It is free, it needs no account, and there is nothing to install or download: the audio streams as it plays.
The reading is not a separate product from the text. Open a chapter, start it, and the verse being spoken is washed in gold on the page, so the reading can be followed by eye. The page stays where you put it, which leaves you free to read ahead or turn back while the voice goes on.
The translations
Each translation is read complete — every book, every chapter — and the narration follows the words on your screen. Choose a different translation and you hear that translation, rather than one text being read over another.
| Translation | Chapters | Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| King James Version (KJV) | 1,189 | 83.7 | Start in Genesis 1 |
| American Standard Version (ASV) | 1,189 | 82.2 | Start in Genesis 1 |
| Bible in Basic English (BBE) | 1,189 | 81.2 | Start in Genesis 1 |
| World English Bible (WEB) | 1,189 | 80.2 | Start in Genesis 1 |
The original languages
The Hebrew of the Old Testament (WLC) and the Greek of the New Testament (GTR) are read in the Interlinear Bible, where the page shows the words being spoken, each with an English gloss beneath it.
| Source text | Chapters | Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) | 929 | 63.5 | Start in Genesis 1 |
| Greek Textus Receptus (GTR) | 260 | 21.2 | Start in Matthew 1 |
The book introductions
Biblion's commentary opens each book of the Bible with an introduction, and all 66 of them are read aloud too — 9.6 hours in a voice of its own, kept for the commentary's own prose rather than for Scripture. They are read as continuous writing, not as an outline. Start with the commentary.
The commentary's summaries
Each section of the commentary carries a short summary in plain English, and those are read aloud as well — 3,031 of them, 48 hours, in the same voice as the introductions. They play in the Bible with Commentary, where a section's passage is read first and its summary straight after.
The devotional readings
Three of the devotional books are read aloud as well: The Character of God, Lives That Met God and The Life of Christ — 1,098 readings, 41.1 hours in all. Each day's reading can be heard on its own page. Browse the devotional readings.
The original words
Beyond the readings, 14,197 Hebrew and Greek words are spoken one at a time — every entry in Strong's lexicon that has a word behind it. Where a Strong's number appears in the text, the entry behind it carries a small play control, so a word can be heard as well as read. Look up a Strong's number.
About the voices
The reading is synthesized rather than recorded by a person, and that is worth knowing before you press play. Each translation keeps one settled voice throughout, read a little under conversational speed, with a short pause between verses. Verse numbers are not spoken, so what you hear is the text running on as it does on the page.
Names are what a synthetic voice usually makes a mess of, and they were not left to it. Each name was given a pronunciation of its own, worked out from the Hebrew and the Greek and written down once, so that Nebuchadnezzar sounds the same in Jeremiah as in Daniel, and Melchizedek the same in Hebrews as in Genesis. Where a name has a long-settled English form, that form was kept.
Every book
Each of these opens at the book's first chapter, where the reading can be started from the Options menu.
| Beginnings | Genesis · Exodus · Leviticus · Numbers · Deuteronomy |
|---|---|
| Judges | Joshua · Judges · Ruth |
| Kingdoms | 1 Samuel · 2 Samuel · 1 Kings · 2 Kings |
| Chronicles | 1 Chronicles · 2 Chronicles · Ezra · Nehemiah · Esther |
| Poetry | Job · Psalms · Proverbs · Ecclesiastes · Song of Solomon |
| Prophets | Isaiah · Jeremiah · Lamentations · Ezekiel · Daniel |
| Minor Prophets | Hosea · Joel · Amos · Obadiah · Jonah · Micah · Nahum · Habakkuk · Zephaniah · Haggai · Zechariah · Malachi |
| Messiah | Matthew · Mark · Luke · John · Acts |
| Paul's Letters | Romans · 1 Corinthians · 2 Corinthians · Galatians · Ephesians · Philippians · Colossians · 1 Thessalonians · 2 Thessalonians · 1 Timothy · 2 Timothy · Titus · Philemon · Hebrews |
| General Letters | James · 1 Peter · 2 Peter · 1 John · 2 John · 3 John · Jude |
| Revelation | Revelation |