| Russian Synodal Bible | |
|---|---|
 Title page of the original first edition - 1876 | |
| Full name | Библия. Книги Священного Писания Ветхого и Нового Завета |
| Language | Russian |
| NT published | 1822 |
| Complete Bible published | 1876 |
| Online as | Russian Synodal Bible at Wikisource |
| Apocrypha | 1 Esdras, Book of Tobit, Book of Judith, Psalm 151, Book of Wisdom, Sirach, Letter of Jeremiah, Book of Baruch, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 2 Esdras |
| Authorship | Philaret Drozdov, Daniel Chwolson, Serafim Glagolevskiy, Mikhail Desnitsky, Moisey Aleksandrovich Golubev, Pavel Ivanovich Savvaitov, Evgraf Ivanovich Lovyagin, Ivan Egorovich Troitsky, Gerasim Petrovich Pavskiy, Makary Glukharyov, Vasily Borisovich Bazhanov, Isidor Nikol’sky |
| Textual basis | Masoretic Text, Septuagint, Elizabeth Bible, Vulgate, Textus Receptus (Elzevir) |
| Publisher | Синодальная типография (Synodal Printing House) |
| Copyright | Public domain |
| Religious affiliation | Russian Orthodox Church |
| Webpage | www |
В начале сотворил Бог небо и землю. Земля же была безвидна и пуста, и тьма над бездною, и Дух Божий носился над водою. И сказал Бог: да будет свет. И стал свет.
Ибо так возлюбил Бог мир, что отдал Сына Своего Единородного, дабы всякий верующий в Него, не погиб, но имел жизнь вечную. | |
The Russian Synodal Bible (Russian: Синодальный перевод, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non-Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic, as well as Russian Baptists[1] and other Protestant communities in Russia. The translation dates to the period 1813–1875, and the first complete edition was published in 1876. The first edition in modernized orthography appeared in 1956. The first digital edition was prepared by the Moscow Patriarchate in 2000.