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Bible in a Nutshell
the whole story, one episode at a time.

Eighty-one interactive episodes across eight books of the Bible — plus the Book of Enoch — in biblical order. Every scene built from real frames of the animated films, every scripture quoted word for word. Free for everyone. And six of them, you can play.

The Book of Enoch

4 episodes

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A winged Watcher lands under the stars Episode 1 of 4 The man who walked with God. Read the episode Vertical bars of white light descending into darkness with chained points of starlight behind them Episode 2 of 4 He was shown how it ends. It ends in a garden. Read the episode An enormous stone creature with pine forests growing on its back standing on a clifftop above the clouds Episode 3 of 4 Wisdom could not find a house. Read the episode An old man with his arms open, lit gold, as streams of light wrap around him on a hilltop Episode 4 of 4 He was walking, and then he wasn't. Read the episode

The Book of Exodus

7 episodes · 1 playable

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A mother lays her baby in a basket among the reeds Episode 1 of 7 Drawn out of the water. Read the episode The bush that burned without burning up Episode 2 of 7 The bush that burned. Read the episode Two elderly shepherds crossing a vast hall lined with golden statues towards a distant throne Episode 3 of 7 Gather your own straw. Read the episode The Nile running red from horizon to horizon Episode 4 of 7 Let my people go. Read the episode A small girl holding a rag doll looking up at her father in lamplight inside a mud-brick house Episode 5 of 7 Why the blood on our door? Read the episode A dry seabed corridor between two towering walls of water with a full moon in the gap at the far end Episode 6 of 7 Stand still, and see. Read the episode Playable Lightning strikes the summit of Sinai above the camp Episode 7 of 7 The mountain that sang. Read the episode

The Book of Judges

8 episodes · 1 playable

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A boy running from a grave marker in the rain, leaving a wooden sword behind Episode 1 of 8 Another generation, who didn't know. Read the episode Deborah standing under her palm tree above the hill country Episode 2 of 8 A mother in Israel. Read the episode Three hundred men raise torches and trumpets in the dark Episode 3 of 8 The least in my father's house. Read the episode A girl dancing out into the road with a tambourine to meet the returning army Episode 4 of 8 Whatever comes out of my door. Read the episode One man alone inside a ring of spears at Lehi Episode 5 of 8 The strong man. Read the episode Playable Delilah watching him across the lamplight Episode 6 of 8 The woman in the valley. Read the episode Samson braced between the two pillars of the temple Episode 7 of 8 Remember me, only this once. Read the episode A whole nation kneeling on a hillside with swords planted point-down in the grass Episode 8 of 8 Right in his own eyes. Read the episode

The Books of Samuel

10 episodes

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A boy stands small in the huge dark temple Episode 1 of 10 The boy who heard God. Read the episode Harvesters rejoice around the ark in the wheat Episode 2 of 10 The ark came home. Read the episode Oil runs down a bowed head at dawn Episode 3 of 10 Give us a king. Read the episode Anointing oil runs down through a boy's dark curls and catches the low sun like a ring of liquid gold Episode 4 of 10 Seven big sons. And not one of them was the one. Read the episode Goliath of Gath grinning down from beneath his bronze helmet Episode 5 of 10 David & Goliath. Read the episode A small carved wooden lyre lying abandoned on a cold stone floor in an empty torchlit hall Episode 6 of 10 The music kept playing. The hand reached for the spear anyway. Read the episode A golden crown lying in a rain puddle among abandoned shields on a gray hillside Episode 7 of 10 He had one clean shot. He used it on a piece of cloth. Read the episode A king in a plain linen ephod leaping in the air in front of the golden ark at sunrise Episode 8 of 10 He finally got the crown. And the first thing he did was mourn. Read the episode A poor family asleep on mats in a one-room house at night with a small lamb tucked in among them Episode 9 of 10 He passed the sentence himself. Out loud. In front of everybody. Read the episode A single great oak alone on a green ridge at dawn with every bird in it going up at once Episode 10 of 10 He gave one order about the battle. “Be gentle with the young man.” Read the episode

The Books of Kings

10 episodes · 1 playable

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The Milky Way over the hilltop shrine at Gibeon Episode 1 of 10 A heart that listens. Read the episode A man raised up on shields by an enormous crowd at sunset beneath banners Episode 2 of 10 To your tents, O Israel. Read the episode One prophet stands alone on the ridge at Carmel Episode 3 of 10 The fire and the rain. Read the episode Playable An angel kneels beside the exhausted prophet under the broom tree Episode 4 of 10 The still small voice. Read the episode A chariot of fire carries Elijah up into the stars Episode 5 of 10 The chariot of fire. Read the episode An iron axe head standing upright in the surface of a river Episode 6 of 10 It was borrowed. Read the episode An armored company standing waist-deep in the Jordan with the sun breaking through Episode 7 of 10 Wash, and be clean. Read the episode A saddled warhorse walking alone through an army camp at dawn, reins trailing Episode 8 of 10 He spread it before the LORD. Read the episode A small boy sitting in an enormous throne, crown slipping Episode 9 of 10 Please show me how. Read the episode An old man at a banquet holding a small clay lamp in both hands Episode 10 of 10 The little flame. Read the episode

The Book of Job

3 episodes

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A man sitting in a pit of gray ash, scraping himself with a piece of broken pottery Episode 1 of 3 Naked I came. Read the episode A shaft of golden light falling on one man at the bottom of a gray crater Episode 2 of 3 My Redeemer lives. Read the episode A ring of golden cloud opening over a tiny figure alone on a plain Episode 3 of 3 Now my eye sees you. Read the episode

The Book of Daniel

12 episodes · 1 playable

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Four boys walk the sunset road toward Babylon Episode 1 of 12 Ten times better. Read the episode A colossal statue looms over a tiny man in the dream Episode 2 of 12 The dream the king forgot. Read the episode Four figures walk free inside the furnace glow Episode 3 of 12 The fourth man in the fire. Read the episode Playable The great tree rises over the misty hills Episode 4 of 12 The king who ate grass. Read the episode Burning letters on the wall reflect in old Daniel's eyes Episode 5 of 12 The writing on the wall. Read the episode An old man kneeling with open hands at a wide-open window at dusk, the city rooftops behind him Episode 6 of 12 They could not find a crime. So they made his habit one. Read the episode Daniel stands in a moonbeam ringed by lions Episode 7 of 12 The night among lions. Read the episode A vast white hall with ranks of shining figures and one small figure walking toward a distant throne Episode 8 of 12 Every empire came out of the sea. This one came out of the sky. Read the episode A white ram with two great curved horns facing the viewer in a place made of moving light Episode 9 of 12 It broke when it was strongest. Read the episode A figure of white and gold light standing on a misty river with an old man small on the bank Episode 10 of 12 He thought nobody had heard. The answer left on the first day. Read the episode A vast gray dust plain at dawn with hundreds of points of golden light rising out of it Episode 11 of 12 He was shown the morning. And then told to go and rest. Read the episode An open window at night looking into a small lamplit room where an old man kneels beside a single candle Episode 12 of 12 They all went home. He stayed, and kept the window open. Read the episode

The Book of Jonah

5 episodes · 1 playable

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A hurricane closes its arm around one ship Episode 1 of 5 The prophet who ran. Read the episode The inside of a great fish lit blue like a cathedral with a tiny figure kneeling at the center Episode 2 of 5 He was swallowed, and still wasn't sorry. Read the episode Playable Two colossal winged bulls with human faces flanking a monumental city gateway Episode 3 of 5 Yet forty days, and Nineveh falls. Read the episode A goat wearing a sackcloth hood looking utterly dejected Episode 4 of 5 Let neither man nor beast. Read the episode A small pink worm with a face on a rock among dead roots at dusk Episode 5 of 5 And God prepared a worm. Read the episode

The Book of Revelation

22 episodes · 1 playable

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Golden light pouring out of the open doorway of a rock-cut tomb Episode 1 of 22 I am the Living One. Read the episode A shaft of gold light coming down through storm cloud onto one figure on a rock Episode 2 of 22 In the Spirit on the Lord’s day. Read the episode A perfect ring of flattened grass around a tiny kneeling figure at sunrise Episode 3 of 22 I died with my Master. It did not stick. Read the episode A road of gold light laid across the sea to a tiny figure on an islet at sunrise Episode 4 of 22 Do not be afraid. I have the keys. Read the episode A ribbon of golden flame standing tall in a dark hut between an old man and a boy Episode 5 of 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear. Read the episode An old hand resting in blessing on a pile of sealed scrolls by lamplight Episode 6 of 22 He does not give up. He does not walk away. Read the episode The throne room of heaven with wheeling living creatures, kneeling elders and a rainbow Episode 7 of 22 Come up here. A door stood open in heaven. Read the episode Playable A small white lamb climbing steps of light into the radiance of the throne Episode 8 of 22 Who is worthy? And through them walks a lamb. Read the episode A crowned rider in white gallops a white horse through cloud above the curve of the earth, a golden bow slung at his back. Episode 9 of 22 Come! And four riders go out over the world. Read the episode A vast crowd in white robes lifts palm branches together in the light of heaven, faces of every age and nation turned upward. Episode 10 of 22 How long? Then heaven ran out of room to count. Read the episode Two children stand hand in hand on a sunlit beach, facing a sea whose waves have stopped mid-curl into a long wall of still glass. Episode 11 of 22 The seventh seal. And nothing happened at all. Read the episode A great storm-bronze eagle in profile, beak open in mid-cry, the low sun burning behind it above a floor of amber cloud. Episode 12 of 22 Seven trumpets. Every one of them a warning. Read the episode By starlight on a clifftop, an old man in a fleece cloak lifts a shallow bowl of glowing molten gold toward the moon, a campfire far below. Episode 13 of 22 Take it and eat it. Sweet as honey. Bitter after. Read the episode Two men in sackcloth standing in a ring of empty flagstones at dawn, columns of golden light pouring down over them while a silent crowd watches from the edge of the square. Episode 14 of 22 Two men. Two sticks. And a city that could not shout them down. Read the episode A vast red dragon rears against the stars, crowned heads spread wide, as a small figure of pure light stands far below between its coils. Episode 15 of 22 A woman clothed with the sun. And a dragon, waiting. Read the episode At sunrise a single white lamb stands on a green summit, the sun breaking into rays directly behind it over blue mountains. Episode 16 of 22 Who is like the beast? And then, at dawn: a Lamb on a green summit. Read the episode A grave white-haired angel with wings lit from within lifts a chased golden bowl in both hands, a small white lightning-storm coiling inside it against a stormy sky. Episode 17 of 22 Seven bowls, carried level. Not one drop spilled by accident. Read the episode A golden city at dusk seen down a long avenue of lamplit towers, purple banners hanging from their terraces. Episode 18 of 22 I will never fall. And then heaven set the tables. Read the episode Seen from behind, a crowned rider in a white robe looks down from a rocky rise over a vast dark army filling the plain below. Episode 19 of 22 The sky stood open. And the King rode out of it. Read the episode A golden book hangs open like a small warm sun high above an ocean of glowing figures curving away into the dark. Episode 20 of 22 The books were opened. And one of them was gold. Read the episode The holy city descending through parted cloud, light streaming off her high towers like veils and her foundations trailing glory, a tree of life glowing at her crown. Episode 21 of 22 The city came down. And God moved in. Read the episode An old man, a boy and a shaggy goat sit together on a headland at night, watching the moon lay a path of light across a calm sea. Episode 22 of 22 Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. And the little scroll sailed. Read the episode

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