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Max McLean brings his compelling voice and artistic narrative skills to the ESV Bible. This Gold Medallion-winning new translation combines a word-for-word translation approach with a literary beauty that is perfect for the oral expression of God's Word.
Public Domain (P)2004 Max McLean

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Divide the audio bible by books, chapters and verses, just like the bible. No, it only came with chapters that had nothing to do with the book. How lame!

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Fix this! The bible is unlike any book you'll read. We need to fix this!

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very easy to understand, narrator voice melodic but inflective when appropriate. background music soft not disturbing. sleep timer good feature.

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Easier to navigate than it was before

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Love Max McLean's voice and narration.

It has been changed from 37 parts to 12 parts, but with more "chapters" in each part, still hard to find exact book and chapter/verse but easier than before.

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Great audio Bible but usability not friendly

Please divide by books and chapters. For sake of ease of biblical ordering possible number the books: 1 Genesis chap 1, 1 Genesis chap 2, …; 2 Exodus chap 1…

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Love It!!

I drive an hour to work each so I decided to make the drive a little more fruitful. Initially, I thought I wouldn't get or that it wouldn't "sink in". But God definetly speaks to me. I particularly noticed it when i was praying out loud- what I had been listening to earlier that day seemed to come out in my prayer. It surprised even me. So if you think you won't be able to focus I encourage you to try anyway. You'll get something out of it. I slowed it down on my ipod to help myself out and its perfect.

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Names of the books of the Bible

Why was the decision made to not include the names of the books of the Bible?

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Leviticus is messed up.

When the audio book is supposed to switch to chapter 12, it randomly jumps to Hosea 12:5. It’s strange. That’s the only mess up I have come across, but haven’t listened to the whole thing.

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Almost nailed it lol

love it except no way to look up specific passages... besides that I'm enjoying it

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Great narration - no chapters TOC

No table of content of any guidance to find a chapter of a verse make this hard to navigate. Still a good chronological listen. A very fine narration. With TOC would be awesome.

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Best Book Ever Written...And Written by God!

God's Holy Truth! It Doesn't get any better! This version is the best too!

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