The Darby Translation
The Darby Translation is J. N. Darby's New Translation from the Original Languages: the New Testament first published in 1867 and revised in 1872 and 1884, the Old Testament completed from his French and German work and published in 1890. It is in the public domain, and this reader carries all 66 books and 1,189 chapters with a link for every verse.
Old Testament
- Genesis50
- Exodus40
- Leviticus27
- Numbers36
- Deuteronomy34
- Joshua24
- Judges21
- Ruth4
- 1 Samuel31
- 2 Samuel24
- 1 Kings22
- 2 Kings25
- 1 Chronicles29
- 2 Chronicles36
- Ezra10
- Nehemiah13
- Esther10
- Job42
- Psalms150
- Proverbs31
- Ecclesiastes12
- Song of Songs8
- Isaiah66
- Jeremiah52
- Lamentations5
- Ezekiel48
- Daniel12
- Hosea14
- Joel3
- Amos9
- Obadiah1
- Jonah4
- Micah7
- Nahum3
- Habakkuk3
- Zephaniah3
- Haggai2
- Zechariah14
- Malachi4
New Testament
Questions people ask
- Is the Darby Translation in the public domain?
- Yes. J. N. Darby died in 1882 and the complete Bible was published in 1890, so the text is public domain in the United States and may be read, copied and quoted freely.
- Which edition is this text?
- The base text is the ebible.org digital edition of the 1890 Morrish text as reprinted by Bible Truth Publishers, checked verse by verse against an independent digital lineage. The provenance is logged on the site's sources page.
- Why does the Old Testament say Jehovah?
- Darby rendered the divine name as Jehovah rather than LORD, a distinctive of his translation that this text keeps as he wrote it.
- Are Darby's footnotes included?
- Not yet. Darby's own notes exist only in the printed editions; a footnote layer is planned once a scan of the Old Testament is in hand.