Chapter I: Front Matter

IN THE PITTI PALACE, FLORENCE]

THE BIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

ARRANGED FROM THE
KING JAMES VERSION

WITH TWENTY-FOUR FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM OLD MASTERS

The Century Co.
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1902, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published October 1902_

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctrines, and whatever is generally regarded as unprofitable to young readers. Moreover, it is so divided into subjects, forming complete stories, that the child will be interested in every part of it. The life of Jesus is put together in a continuous account taken from the four Evangelists; and while there are omissions and changes, the wording and spelling of the King James version remain the same.

Verse divisions have been disregarded, and a totally new system of chapters introduced in place of the familiar ones, and it is hoped that this novelty will give fresh interest to the old book. One of the features which will be appreciated is the table of contents, giving the subject of each book and its subdivisions, so that one may readily turn to any Bible story of which he is in search.

With great discrimination and sympathy, the compiler, Mrs. Joseph B. Gilder, has accomplished this task, and the book now stands as the embodiment of what is universally considered the best in the Bible for young people, "best" meaning here what is most suited to the minds of girls and boys and appropriate to their moral range.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

THE OLD TESTAMENT

BOOK I--THE BEGINNINGS

CHAPTER PAGE
1 THE CREATION OF THE WORLD 3
2 THE CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE 5
3 THE SIN OF ADAM AND EVE 6
4 THE MURDER OF ABEL 7
5 THE FLOOD 8
6 THE ARK RESTS ON ARARAT 10
7 THE TOWER OF BABEL 11

BOOK II--ABRAHAM AND ISAAC

8 THE CALL OF ABRAM 13
9 DESTRUCTION OF SODOM 17
10 HAGAR AND ISHMAEL 19
11 ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE 20
12 THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH 21
13 HOW REBEKAH BECAME ISAAC'S WIFE 22

BOOK III--JACOB AND JOSEPH

14 JACOB AND ESAU 26
15 JACOB AND RACHEL 29
16 JACOB AND LABAN 32
17 MEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU 34
18 THE BIRTH OF BENJAMIN 36
19 JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN 38
20 JOSEPH BEFORE PHARAOH 41
21 THE FAMINE 43
22 BENJAMIN BROUGHT TO JOSEPH 45
23 ISRAEL GOES DOWN INTO EGYPT 49
24 THE DEATH OF JACOB 51
25 THE BURIAL OF JACOB 53

BOOK IV--MOSES AND THE DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT

26 THE FINDING OF MOSES 55
27 THE BURNING BUSH 57
28 THE ISRAELITES IN BONDAGE 59
29 THE PLAGUES OF BLOOD AND FROGS 61
30 THE PLAGUES OF LICE, FLIES, MURRAIN, AND BOILS 63
31 THE PLAGUE OF HAIL 64
32 THE PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS AND DARKNESS 65
33 THE TENTH PLAGUE: THE FIRST-BORN OF EGYPT SLAIN--THE
PASSOVER 67
34 THE ISRAELITES GO UP OUT OF EGYPT 69
35 THE OVERWHELMING OF THE EGYPTIANS 70
36 THE SONG OF MOSES 72