How do I open a chapter and return to where I left off?
Any chapter opens in a few presses with the “Choose a book” button. The site remembers the last chapter you opened, so you can get back to it from the home page.
- Press “Choose a book”, the Bible icon in the site header.
- Choose a book.
- Choose a chapter.
- Press the number of a neighbouring chapter in the bar above the text. On a phone, the button with the chapter number there opens the list of chapters.
- Press the book and chapter name above the text. The same window opens.
- Below the chapter, press the button of the next chapter. The “Books” button next to it opens the list of books.
The last chapter you opened is remembered in this browser.
- Go to the home page: press the logo in the site header.
- Press the “Continue” button with the name of the chapter.
- Carry on reading from the chapter that opens.
Lower on the home page, the “Continue reading” button leads to the same chapter. The “Read the Bible” item in the “Bible” menu does the same, but it is not there on a chapter page.
Yes. Add the book code and the chapter number to the site address: only.bible/gen-1/ is the first chapter of Genesis, only.bible/mat-5/ is the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. The book code is written in Latin letters. A verse number goes after a dot: only.bible/jhn-3.16/ opens that verse alone. To open the whole chapter and go straight to a verse, add #v and the verse number: only.bible/jhn-3/#v16. The page opens in the translation you read last, or, if you have not read anything yet, in the main translation for your language.
Below the site header there is always a narrow bar. When you scroll down a chapter, the book with the chapter and the translation appear in it.
- Scroll down the chapter.
- Press the book and chapter in the bar to choose another place.
- Press the translation to change it.
On a computer or a tablet, the bar also has a “Bible” link. It leads to the list of all translations.
- Press the translation name above the text.
- Choose another translation in the list.
- Read the same chapter in the new translation.
Other ways to choose a translation are described on the page about choosing a translation.