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If you’re on the lookout for a high quality bible recording that won’t cost you a cent, then read on.  This story is making it’s rounds on the net and I thought it would be great to make this resource known here at LayGuy also.

A word of warning though.  Although free, if you want the whole bible, you’ll need to do a fair amount of work to get it.  Having said that, you can easily download high quality MP3 recordings of entire chapters – up to 500 versus at a time.  Without further ado, here’s how:

1. Head over to the ESV bible online.
2. Click on the “Options” link in the top right hand corner.
3. Don’t worry about the visual options for now, head down to audio options and select “MP3 (David Cochran Heath, complete Bible).”
4. Press “save” at the bottom of the screen.
5. Do a search on the chapter and/or versus you want to download.
6. For the purpose of this exercise, I’m searching Genesis 1
7. Genesis 1 pops up onto the screen.  You’ll notice the “(listen)” next to the chapter title.
8. Right click “listen” and select “save link as” (Firefox) “save target as” (Explorer) etc.
9. Choose a place to save it on your computer and rename the file to something meaningful – such as “Gen 1” in our example – make sure you add “.mp3” after your file name.
10. Save and download it.

This can then be easily be listened to on your computer or transferred to an MP3 player or iPod.

Crossway are the publishers of the ESV and have made this resource available for all – very generous despite the times we live in.

And the quality?  Well just have a listen to this…

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