The Bible is an eternal Book and a spiritual companion of mankind, it knows no boundaries in time and space and appeals to the hearts of people who speak hundreds of languages.

The translation of the Bible into Russian was carried out by the St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Kiev Theological Academies from 1856 to 1876.

The translation was based on the Russian text of the New Testament, the Psalter and the Pentateuch, which appeared as a result of the work of the Russian Bible Society in 1816-1826. The final redaction was carried out by the Holy Synod and personally by Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow. The full text of the translation was published in 1876.

The Synodal translation is the main text of the Bible for all Christians in Russia.

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Bible

Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

The Books of the Old Testament (Part 1)

The first book of Moses. Entity

Chapter 1

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness over the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the waters.

3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light day, and the darkness night. And there was evening and there was morning: day one.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. [And so it was.] [1]

7 And God made the firmament, and separated the waters that are under the firmament from the waters that are above the firmament. And so it was.

8 And God called the firmament heaven. [And God saw that it was good.] And there was evening and there was morning: the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters that are under heaven be gathered together in one place, and let the dry land appear. And so it was. [And the waters under the sky gathered together in their places, and the dry land appeared.]

10 And God called the dry land the earth, and the gathering of the waters he called the seas. And God saw that it was good.