Listen — The Ethiopian Bible in English

The complete audiobook of this edition, free to stream and download: the eighty-six books of the canon and the five related texts — nearly one hundred and forty hours — with the edition’s front matter read aloud. The books readers most often come looking for are all here: the Book of Enoch — quoted by name in the New Testament Epistle of Jude, and preserved complete only in Ge’ez — the Book of Jubilees, which retells the story from creation to Sinai; the three Books of Meqabyan, indigenous Ethiopian scriptures unrelated to the Greek books of Maccabees; the Ethiopic Clement, a book of apostolic order that exists in no other Christian tradition — and around them the whole Old and New Testaments, the rest of the broader canon, and the related texts.

Every book streams by chapter and can be downloaded whole from its heading — 1,877 chapter tracks in all. The edition’s front matter — the foreword, the essays, and the commentary — is read as well, and stands first in the list as it does in the book. The full text of every book is in the printed and Kindle editions.

How this recording was made — read first This audiobook is narrated by a synthetic voice — an artificial-intelligence text-to-speech system — not by a human reader. We tell you this plainly, because the purpose of this edition is to be honest about how it was made. We do not claim the synthetic voice is the equal of a human narrator, or that it reads these scriptures as they deserve to be read. It does not. It is a bridge, not a destination. Five of the books below are themselves AI-assisted translations from public-domain sources in other languages — the three Books of Meqabyan, the Ethiopic Clement, and Josippon — marked where they begin, here as in print. Josippon is additionally a provisional translation, the lowest-confidence book in the edition, and carries that mark as well. The full account of every source and method is in the methodology.

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Audio: 48 kHz / 192 kbps MP3, playable in any modern browser. Each book can also be downloaded as a single file from its heading. Your place is remembered on this device.