Resources — the free toolbox.
Everything below is free. A few flagged items are where to start; the rest is where to grow. These are the tools the nine lessons assume you have open in the next tab.
The workhorse
Blue Letter BibleStart here
The single most useful free Bible-study tool on the internet. Search any verse → tap Interlinear → every English word shows its Hebrew/Greek word and Strong's number → tap the number and get the lexicon entry plus every occurrence in the Bible. That loop is Lesson 3, and it will carry you for years. Real lexicons (BDB for Hebrew, Thayer for Greek) are built into the same page when you outgrow Strong's glosses. Free, no account needed.
Study platforms
STEP Bible
Scholarly-grade and beginner-friendly at once: hover any word for its original-language vocab, color-code by grammar, compare manuscripts. The best "second tool" once Blue Letter Bible feels natural. Works offline too.
Bible Hub
Every translation side-by-side on one page, plus interlinears, lexicons, and topical indexes. Especially good for Lesson 4 work — seeing ten translations at once instantly exposes which words the translators disagreed about, and disagreement marks the spots worth digging.
NET Bible
A modern translation published with its homework attached: 60,000+ translator footnotes explaining why they rendered each phrase the way they did. Reading the notes is like sitting behind the translation committee. Free forever by design.
e-Sword
Free desktop study software with downloadable Bibles, lexicons, and commentaries. The offline option — everything local, fast, and yours.
The original texts
Tanach.us — Westminster Leningrad Codex
The complete Hebrew Bible in the same Masoretic text this site's Genesis reader is built from. When you're ready to read past Genesis 5, this is the text itself, beautifully presented.
Sefaria
The Hebrew Tanakh with the entire rabbinic library linked beside it — Rashi, the Talmud, midrash — with English translations. When a teaching claims "the rabbis say…," this is where you check what the rabbis actually said (see the calibration notes on the Lens page). Also has BDB built in.
SBL Greek New Testament
A free, critically edited Greek New Testament — the same text behind this site's John 1 reader.
Learn the languages — free video courses
Aleph with BethHebrew
A complete Biblical Hebrew video course, free forever, taught entirely in Hebrew by immersion (you'll be surprised how well that works). Hundreds of lessons, zero cost. The perfect companion to this site's drills — we teach you to decode; they teach you to understand. Excellent for studying together as a family.
Alpha with AngelaGreek
The sister channel: Koine Greek by the same immersion method, same price (free). Start it when the Greek alphabet stops feeling foreign.
Daily Dose of Hebrew & Daily Dose of Greek
A two-minute video every day, walking through one verse's grammar. The maintenance habit that keeps a language alive once you have it — pairs perfectly with the 7/3/2/1 rhythm on the Memorize page.
Master Greek
Free parsing-practice app: it shows you a Greek form, you identify tense/voice/mood. Drill-style, like this site's trainers — for when you're past the alphabet and into the grammar.
Context and overview
BibleProject
Beautifully animated overview videos for every book of the Bible, plus word-study videos that model good concordance work (their shalom, hesed, and Word Studies series are Lesson 3 in cartoon form). The best "read for coverage" companion there is — watch the book overview before a first read-through.
Books worth owning
Everything above is free and sufficient. These are the few physical things worth money when you're ready — the print tools serious students end up with.
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Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia — A Reader's Edition
The Hebrew Bible with rare-word glosses in the footnotes, so you can read real text without a dictionary in the other hand. The natural next step after this site's Genesis 1–5.
Greek New Testament — A Reader's Edition (UBS5)
Same concept for the Greek NT: running text, uncommon vocabulary glossed at the foot of the page.
Basics of Biblical Hebrew (Pratico & Van Pelt) · Basics of Biblical Greek (Mounce)
The standard first-year seminary grammars, if you want the formal path alongside the immersion videos. Workbooks available for both.
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (Fee & Stuart)
The classic one-volume hermeneutics book — genre by genre, how each kind of biblical literature asks to be read. The book-length version of the nine lessons.
The data this site is built from
openscriptures/morphhb — the Westminster Leningrad Codex with full morphological tagging · openscriptures/strongs — Strong's dictionaries as open data · morphgnt/sblgnt — the SBL Greek NT with morphology · Dodson Greek Lexicon — open-licensed Greek glosses. Open scholarship makes a site like this possible; if you build something with these, pass it on.