Watch
Every verse is read aloud while the world acts it out, with the words on screen as they are spoken. About 42 minutes of narration from “In the beginning” to Abram’s family settling in Haran.
Genesis 1–11
Breath of the Way
Step into Scripture.
All 299 verses of Genesis 1–11, read aloud while a living world acts them out. Pause on any verse, look around, and step inside the moment.
Free to use. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking. On phones and computers. About 8 MB to start on a phone, best on Wi-Fi.
What it is
Genesis, verse by verse, in a world you can walk into
Each verse is read aloud from the Berean Standard Bible while the scene acts it out: light before the sun, the four rivers of Eden, the ark’s three decks, the plain of Shinar. It follows the text closely and quietly. God is never shown as a person; His presence is light, wind and the voice.
Step in
Pause and walk into the moment. Look closer at the people, animals and places; each one opens a short note tied to its verses. Then pick up the film where you left it.
Read
Every verse of Genesis 1–11 in the Berean Standard Bible, chapter by chapter. Tap a verse and the world moves to that moment.
Faithful to the text
Nothing added to the Scripture
We are careful here, because the words are not ours.
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Word for word
Every spoken word is the Berean Standard Bible, read verse by verse. There is no invented dialogue and no extra line for anyone.
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In the Bible’s order
The story keeps the order Genesis tells it in. There are no side quests and no new events.
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God is never shown as a figure
His presence is light, wind and the voice.
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Imagined from the text
The world is imagined from what Scripture says. Where it is silent, the world stays plain and quiet, with only the kind of life the text itself speaks of.
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Nothing to win
No points, scores, badges or timers. Just the passage, and the place.
Stories
Jump to a story
Genesis 1–11 in thirteen stories. Start anywhere: from Genesis 2:4 on, a story or a chapter opens walking, in the scene where it begins, and the walk carries on from there. The Creation (Genesis 1:1–2:3) plays as the film, and every story can be watched as the film too.
More in the app: every chapter and story, and your bookmarks
Genesis 12–50 and the other books of the Bible are coming later.
Your place
Pick up where you left off
Your place in the story, the verses you’ve watched and your bookmarks are kept on this device, with no account.
Sign in with Google or an email link to keep them in step on your phone and your computer. Signing in is optional and changes nothing about what you can see.
Signing in, to keep your place on every device, is coming.
Where it’s going
From the first chapters toward the whole Bible
Plans, not promises
This is a beginning. Here is what exists today, what we plan next, and what we’re exploring. We share no dates until we’re sure of them.
Now
- Genesis 1–11: all 299 verses, narrated, across ten places
- Watch, step into any moment, and read along
- Journey: walk on foot from Eden to Haran (Genesis 2:4–11:32), following a silver light
- Playback from 0.75× to 2×, with the voice at its natural pitch
- Pause and look around any moment
- Jump to any of the thirteen stories
- Your place and bookmarks kept on your device
- Your place and bookmarks kept on your device, and on all your devices when you sign in
Next, planned
- Then the rest of Genesis: Abraham to Joseph
- Human narration in place of today’s computer-generated voices
- Signing in, to keep your place on every device
Exploring
- More books of the Bible
- Other languages
Stay in touch
Hear when new places open
We’ll write when a new part of the story is ready to walk. Tell us what you’d love to walk through next; it shapes what we build.