Holy Bible Reader's Edition

LEATHER EDITION PRE-ORDER INFORMATION: 

1. We expect to be able to ship pre-orders in about 4 months from 11/19/2025. Be aware that this is only a projection, and it may change due to circumstances beyond our control. DO NOT PLACE a pre-order if you are uncomfortable with the projected ship date. Full payment is due when preordering.
2. Customers may only purchase ONE pre-order product in each binding style.
3. International customers may be surcharged an additional shipping charge if transit costs increase between the date of pre-order and the date of availability.
4. While the swatches are of actual lambskin hides we intend to use, we cannot guarantee that final colors will match exactly due to animal hide variability.
5. We will not convert pre-orders from one binding style to another. Be sure you are ordering what you want.
6. Standard bindings will not be available for pre-order.
7. Pre-orders are not available to wholesale accounts.

The Holy Bible Reader's Edition includes the Lexham English Language Septuagint (complete) with the Eastern / Orthodox (EOB) New Testament. 

This 1400 page edition is offset printed in two colors on superior 35gsm bible paper with gilded edges, rounded corners, and four page marker ribbons. The physical size of this edition is B5 JIS, 182 mm x 257 mm (7.17 inches x 10.12 inches).

Available in two binding types, zippered for portability and standard for desk use - the contents of both editions are identical. Both binding types will be available in manufactured leather, with a very limited number of copies available in lambskin.

42 beautiful full color maps with cross-references are included for enrichment.

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ADDITIONAL DETAILS

TYPEFACE AND FORMATTING – The text of this edition is set in Alegreya on two columns and line matched. We chose a columnar layout because shorter line lengths enhance readability. Formatting has been simplified—Old Testament references in the New Testament are in regular style, rather than italic style. All poetic typography (versification) has been removed to facilitate reading.

DESIGN ELEMENTS – The design elements, such as the headers, are based on historic Byzantine manuscripts, which our artistic team has redrawn for this edition. The cover shows an iconographic drawing of the Root of Jesse, and was drawn by Vladimir Ilievski and Predrag Ilievski.

NUMBERING SYSTEMS – Unlike our modern publications, the earliest manuscripts of the Bible did not have verse numbers. Furthermore, the chaptering system was different. While there is no denying the convenience of verse numbers, we have chosen to eliminate them. Of course, this is not the first Bible without verse numbers, however our approach is slightly different from previous versions.

This edition might be called a “hybrid reader’s edition.” It is hybrid because we have retained modern chapter divisions, but without verse numbers. Furthermore, to facilitate cross-referencing, line numbers have been added on the outside edges of the text. The numbers (intentionally less opaque) are set in red font and appear on every fifth line, beginning with the number one in the left column of each page and continuing sequentially to the bottom of the right column of the same page.

The great ancient exegetes of the Church, such as Saint John Chrysostom, did not read the Bible with verse subdivisions. They read Scripture not as a series of discreet bits and pieces, ready-made for proof-texting, but as a single story—the wonderful record of the revelation of the personal God to mankind. We hope that eliminating verse numbers from this edition will aid in the reader's encounter with holy Scripture.

FOOTNOTES – We chose to use footnotes rather than endnotes because of their convenience, especially in a large book such as this edition. Footnotes are styled as run-ons for their economy of space, and their numbering begins with one on the verso [left] side of each spread and continue sequentially on the recto [right] side of the spread. Pages without any notes on the verso side with begin at one on the recto side of the spread. A footnote may span from one page to the following page if the length of the note requires it. The notes in this edition represent original source and reference materials from each respective translation. However, footnotes that refer to another place in Scripture now include, at minimum, a page and line number to facilitate their discovery. Many notes also include the initial words of the referenced text in quotation marks. In some notes that refer to multiple sentences, a vertical bar (or pipe symbol) is placed between the first words of the beginning of the referenced text and the final words of the referenced text, as in the following example: Psalm 8:4-6, “Because I will see the Heavens . . . | . . . with glory and honor.”