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Every edition is a 10×13″ coffee-table book: one book of the Bible, designed cover to cover. Here's what the covers and the pages inside actually look like.
The covers
One design language, sixty-six different covers. Each takes its image from the book itself: a sunrise for Matthew, a night sky for Psalms, scattered seeds for James. No two books on your shelf look alike.
Philippians
Genesis
Proverbs
John
Ruth
Cloth-touch covers · foil-stamped spines · lay-flat binding
Reading the spine
Volumes, editions, and parts.
Volume
The book's place in the Bible's 66.
Genesis is Vol. 1, Matthew is Vol. 40, Revelation will be Vol. 66. The number never changes, so your shelf tells the whole story in order, however you collect it.
Edition
What travels alongside the text.
The Scripture is always printed unchanged. Editions differ in everything around it: maps, historical notes, essays, photography, cover art. So a subscription stays fresh for years. When Philippians comes around again, it arrives as a book you have never read before.
Parts & pairings
Sized for one month of reading.
Long books arrive in parts: Psalms spans its five ancient books, one at a time. The shortest letters share a volume with a neighbor, so no month ever feels thin.
Inside the pages
Open the Matthew edition.
Real spreads from Volume 40. The CSB text is printed unchanged. Everything else sits alongside it, never inside it.
Chapter Five
The Sermon on the Mount
Jesus climbs the hillside, sits down, and redraws the map of who is blessed. Chapters 5 to 7 in a single sitting.
Chapter openers. Every chapter begins with a title page and a full-bleed photographic plate.
Matthew 5 · The Beatitudes
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
104 · Matthew
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”
In the margin
“Blessed” here is makarios: less “happy feelings,” more “enviable position.” Jesus is announcing who is well-off in the kingdom, and the list is upside-down on purpose.
The Sermon on the Mount · 105
Reading pages. Generous serif type with drop caps. “In the margin” notes carry the friendly voice, beside the text, never inside it.
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Matthew 5 : 14
Pull-quote plates. Breathing room between chapters: one verse, one photograph. The pages people leave the book open to.
Before You Read · Matthew 1
Why Matthew opens with a family tree
The first page of the New Testament is a list of names: forty-two generations arranged, very deliberately, in three movements of fourteen. Matthew is making an argument before he tells a single story: the whole history of Israel has been leaning toward this birth.
Fourteen was David's number. In Hebrew, the letters of his name add up to it. Matthew's readers would have caught the pattern immediately: this is a royal genealogy, and its destination is a king.
12 · Matthew
Notice, too, the five women in the list: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, Mary. No one wrote first-century genealogies this way. Matthew did it on purpose.
Matthew · 13
Before-you-read pages. Short essays with a simple diagram set up what you're about to read. Here, why Matthew opens with a genealogy.
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