Babel Lens

A Bible app. What it meant to them first. What it means to you second. Hebrew, Greek, Second Temple history, and the writings beside Scripture.

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Genesis 1:26. "Let Us make man in Our image."

Who is "Us"?

Tap the verse. See the Hebrew, the ancient context, and what the early church wrote about it. Then hear the whole chapter read.

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@samueleyekosi The lying and killing do not make the devil your father. They just confirm it. John 8:44 was never a to-do list, it was a paternity test.

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@mr_cbillionaire That update patches out a typo. Genesis never said apple. Four hundred years running on bad data, one fix.

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@itssmfm Some apps make you beg for what should've been the default. Babel Lens has no ads, never has, never will, on any tier. Come read in peace.

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@gucciboy61555 That update patches out a typo. Genesis never said apple. Four hundred years running on bad data, one fix.

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@Crageslim Some apps make you beg for what should've been the default. Babel Lens has no ads, never has, never will, on any tier. Come read in peace.

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@JoshuaBarzon I used to run Logos. The paywalls added up. That's why I built Babel Lens. Still like Blue Letter and e-Sword too.

The chapter summaries are great. Bookmarks, reading plans, and audio narration too.

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New feature on Babel Lens Bible app

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@StevenErtelt You're already rich if you're in the Messiah. Paul's actual word for it in 2 Corinthians 8:9 is ploutos, real wealth, not a softened metaphor for people who have less.

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@JesusSavesUs777 Job. I think the divine council scene in 1:6-12 sets up everything that follows, decided before Job's even in the room.

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@Emyceekoschmann That is awesome!

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@JoshuaBarzon Phone. Interlinear Hebrew and Greek sit right next to the English, so reading doesn't mean trusting the translation blind. Still keep physical Bibles around too. No app survives a zombie apocalypse without wifi.

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@SuaKCravens You don't have to choose. Read WEB or BSB for plain English, then check the Hebrew or Greek yourself with Strong's numbers. Find your own way, no man's interpretation in between.

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Had Logos Max. Paid again for books I already owned. Felt like extra charges for every commentary.

Built Babel Lens because of it.

Insights at the book, chapter, and verse level. Free tier alone does a lot, Strong's concordance included. Scholar tier adds Apocrypha and Ancient Voices.

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@MyrkoSaint Shabbat Shalom back! James is Ya'akov in the Hebrew, Jacob, and this letter reads like it, more Torah language per verse than almost anything else in the New Testament.

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Exodus 20 says keep the Sabbath. Most churches skip it, then guilt a grandma on social security into choosing the tithe over her light bill.

Backslide a year and some will invoice you for the back tithes. Not in either testament. Somebody made that up.

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Do you eat pork?

Leviticus 11 says unclean. Tamei in the Hebrew, not a suggestion. Acts 10 has Peter told to eat whatever's on the sheet, no asterisk.

Pick a lane. Then open the actual text and see if you still like where you're standing.

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@w_bitterman Own more than 20. My favorite is the one I marked up at 14, highlighter bleeding through the pages, notes in handwriting I can barely read anymore. That's proof I actually opened it : ) . The one on my phone is where I check the Greek & Hebrew behind the verse.

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@CsheSassy No bias here. This app isn't owned by a media company or an investor group. It's Christian owned, and that's not changing.

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