Journey through the great narratives of Sacred Scripture—from Creation, the Patriarchs, Exodus, and the Deuterocanonical heroes to the Gospels, Miracles, Parables, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Every story links directly to the full biblical text, commentaries, and original Hebrew & Greek study tools.
Foundational accounts of Creation, Covenant, Deliverance, and Prophecy
God creates the heavens, the earth, light, seas, vegetation, celestial bodies, living creatures, and finally humanity—male and female—in His own image and likeness, resting on the seventh day.
Tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve disobey God by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, yet God immediately promises a future Redeemer in the Protoevangelium (Genesis 3:15).
Amidst widespread corruption, righteous Noah obeys God by building the Ark, preserving his family and every kind of living creature through the deluge before God seals His covenant with the rainbow.
Abraham leaves Ur in faith at God's call and later trusts God even when tested to offer his beloved son Isaac on Mount Moriah, where the Lord provides a ram in his stead.
Betrayed by his jealous brothers and sold into Egyptian slavery, Joseph remains pure and faithful in prison until God exalts him as governor of Egypt to save his family from famine.
God reveals His holy name "I AM WHO AM" to Moses from the unconsumed burning bush on Mount Horeb and delivers Israel from Egyptian bondage through the blood of the Passover lamb.
The Lord parts the Red Sea so Israel walks through on dry ground, and at Mount Sinai God seals His covenant with Israel by giving the Decalogue—the Ten Commandments.
Leading Israel across the Jordan into the Promised Land, Joshua obeys the Lord's command to carry the Ark of the Covenant around Jericho for seven days until its fortified walls collapse.
Ruth the Moabitess cleaves faithfully to her widowed mother-in-law Naomi and the God of Israel, finding refuge under the wings of Boaz and becoming the great-grandmother of King David and ancestor of Jesus.
Armed only with a shepherd's sling, five smooth stones, and unshakeable zeal for the Lord of Hosts, young David defeats the Philistine giant Goliath.
The prophet Elijah challenges the 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, calling Israel back from idolatry as the Lord answers with fire from heaven.
Refusing to cease praying three times a day toward Jerusalem despite a royal decree, Daniel is cast into a den of lions, where God sends His angel to shut the lions' mouths.
Righteous Tobit performs heroic works of mercy in Nineveh, and God sends the Archangel Raphael in disguise to guide his son Tobias, heal Sarah from the demon Asmodeus, and restore Tobit's sight.
When the Assyrian general Holofernes besieges Bethulia and the city elders prepare to surrender, the pious widow Judith rebukes their lack of faith, prays in sackcloth, and delivers her people.
Arrested by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes for refusing to violate God's covenant law, seven brothers and their heroic mother endure martyrdom while proclaiming their unshakeable belief in the bodily resurrection.
Falsely accused of adultery by two corrupt elders whose advances she refused, chaste Susanna cries out to God, who stirs up the spirit of young Daniel to expose the elders' perjury.
All of Creation was formed by G-d's spoken word. (GEN 1:1-31)
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (GEN 1:27) God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, THE SIXTH DAY. (GEN 1:31)
When Adam had lived ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. (GEN 5:3)
So all the days of Enoch were THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE YEARS. (GEN 5:23) Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. (GEN 5:24)
Lamech lived ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO YEARS, and became the father of a son. Now he called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the LORD has cursed." (GEN 5:28-29)
In the SIX HUNDREDTH YEAR of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. (GEN 7:11-12)
Now it came about in the SIX HUNDRED AND FIRST YEAR, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. (GEN 8:13)
Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, "Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD, and became the father of Arpachshad TWO YEARS after the flood; (GEN 11:10)
Terah lived SEVENTY YEARS, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. (GEN 11:26) The days of Terah were TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS; and Terah died in Haran. (GEN 11:32) Now Abram was SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS old when he departed from Haran. (GEN 12:4) [Terah was 205 when he died in Haran and Abram was 75 left Haran wh
Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu; and Peleg lived TWO HUNDRED AND NINE YEARS after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:18-19)
They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah; and Nahor lived ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN YEARS after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:24)
Terah lived SEVENTY YEARS, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. (GEN 11:26) The days of Terah were TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS; and Terah died in Haran. (GEN 11:32) Now Abram was SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS old when he departed from Haran. (GEN 12:4) [Terah was 205 when he died in Haran. Abram was 75 and left Haran w
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man ONE HUNDRED YEARS old? And will Sarah, who is NINETY YEARS old, bear a child?" (GEN 17:17)
Reu lived THIRTY-TWO YEARS, and became the father of Serug; and Reu lived TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN YEARS after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:20)
Serug lived THIRTY YEARS, and became the father of Nahor; and Serug lived TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN YEARS after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:22)
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there. (GEN 11:31)
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High. (GEN 14:18) After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great." (GEN 15:1)
So Abram went forth as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS old when he departed from Haran. (GEN 12:4)
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your reward shall be very great." (GEN 15:1) Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ. What I am saying is this: the Law, which came FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to n
After Abram had lived TEN YEARS in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. (GEN 16:3)
Arpachshad lived THIRTY-FIVE YEARS, and became the father of Shelah; and Arpachshad lived FOUR HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:12-13)
Now when Abram was NINETY-NINE YEARS old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless. I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly." (GEN 17:1-2)
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said to him. Now Abraham was NINETY-NINE YEARS old when he was circumci
"I will surely return to you at this time NEXT YEAR; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door, which was behind him. (GEN 18:10) Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off. (GEN 18:16) Then the men turne
As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day. (GEN 19:38)
God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. (GEN 15:13)
Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber; and Shelah lived FOUR HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:14-15)
He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." (GEN 22:2)
and Isaac was FORTY YEARS OLD when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. (GEN 25:20)
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was ONE HUNDRED YEARS old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood. (GEN 11:10) and Shem lived FIVE HUNDRED YEARS, after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:11)
Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau. Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was SIXTY YEARS old when she gave birth to them. (GEN 25:25-26)
Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau. Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau's heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was SIXTY YEARS old when she gave birth to them. (GEN 25:25-26)
Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg; and Eber lived FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters. (GEN 11:16-17)
The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. (GEN 26:2-3)
When Esau was FORTY YEARS OLD he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
These are the years of the life of Ishmael, ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people. (GEN 25:17)
And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing." Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" (GEN 27:35-36)
So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. (GEN 28:1-2)
So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac; and Esau went to Ishmael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth. (GEN 28:8-9)
So Jacob served SEVEN YEARS for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. (GEN 29:20)
So Jacob served SEVEN YEARS for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. (GEN 29:20)
Leah conceived and bore a son and named him Reuben, for she said, "Because the LORD has seen my affliction; surely now my husband will love me." (GEN 29:32)
Then she conceived again and bore a son and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." So she named him Simeon. (GEN 29:33)
She conceived again and bore a son and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore he was named Levi. (GEN 29:34)
And she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing. (GEN 29:35)
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me, and has indeed heard my voice and has given me a son." Therefore she named him Dan. (GEN 30:6)
Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. So Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed." And she named him Naphtali. (GEN 30:7-8)
When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. Then Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad. (GEN 30:9-11)
Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. Then Leah said, "Happy am I! For women will call me happy." So she named him Asher. (GEN 30:12-13)
Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob. Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she named him Zebulun. (GEN 30:19-20)
These TWENTY YEARS I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times. (GEN 31:41)
Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." But he said, "I will not let you go
It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). (GEN 35:18-19)
It came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). (GEN 35:18-19)
These are the records of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, when SEVENTEEN YEARS of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my house, and according to your command all my people shall do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you." Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land o
During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly. (GEN 41:47)
Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. (GEN 41:50) Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household." (GEN 41:51)
Now before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him. (GEN 41:50) He named the second Ephraim, "For," he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction." (GEN 41:52)
When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. (GEN 41:53-54)
When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end, and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. (GEN 41:53-54)
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn... The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. (GEN 46:8, 11)
They took their livestock and their property, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him: (GEN 46:6) So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my sojourning are ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained t
The seven years of famine in Egypt ended
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob's life was ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN YEARS. (GEN 47:28)
The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred and thirty-three years. (EXO 6:18)
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi's life was ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS. (EXO 6:16)
The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE YEARS. (EXO 6:18)
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water." (EXO 2:10)
Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS. (Exodus 6:20)
I was FORTY YEARS old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart. (JOS 14:7)
God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. (GEN 15:13)
Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS. And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. (EXO 12:40-41)
The sons of Israel ate the manna FORTY YEARS, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (EXO 16:35) 'Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.
Now it came about in the FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTIETH YEAR after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the FOURTH YEAR of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. (1KI 6:1)
‘Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel." So Moses came and called the elders of
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, "And to seeds," as referring to many, but rather to one, "And to your seed," that is, Christ. What I am saying is this: the Law, which came FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to n
Then Moses went up 1with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and THEY SAW THE GOD OF ISRAEL; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and THEY SAW GOD, and they ate a
Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it. (EXO 36:2)
Now in the first month of the SECOND year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected. (EXO 40:17)
Now in the SECOND year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony; and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran. (NUM 10:11-12)
Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them. (NUM 13:2)
In the FORTIETH YEAR, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them, (DEU 1:3)
Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully." (DEU 5:1)
These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb. (DEU 29:1)
Now Joshua the son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; and the sons of Israel listened to him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses. (DEU 34:9)
Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there. (JOS 2:1)
Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying, "Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. (JOS 1:1-2)
Now it came about after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying, "Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. (JOS 1:1-2) And the priests
While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, THREE HUNDRED YEARS, why did you not recover them within that time? (JDG 11:26)
Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. (JOS 4:19)
So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. (JOS 6:20)
So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. (JOS 6:20)
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. (JOS 6:24)
Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the LORD God of Israel fully. Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war. (JOS 14:14-15)
The Gospels, Parables, Miracles, Paschal Mystery, and Acts of the Apostles
The Archangel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary in Nazareth that she will conceive the Son of the Most High by the Holy Spirit; upon her fiat, the Eternal Word becomes flesh and is born in Bethlehem.
At the maternal intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus performs His first public sign at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, transforming water in six stone jars into the finest wine.
After squandering his inheritance in a distant country, a younger son returns home in repentance, only to find his father running out to embrace him, clothe him in the finest robe, and celebrate his return.
After instituting the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, Jesus offers Himself on the Cross at Calvary for the redemption of the world and rises bodily from the tomb on the third day, conquering sin and death.
Gathered in prayer with Mary the Mother of Jesus in the Upper Room, the Apostles are filled with the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and boldly proclaim the Risen Christ to all nations.
Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midi
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