Brendan Powell Smith - The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament

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This is an original, modern interpretation of the Bible, based on older public domain translations such as the King James Bible, Darby's Bible, and Young's Literal Bible. In Addition, Modern English Bible Translations Were used as references, and the author consulted the original hebrew for certain passages.

Copyright 2011 By Brendan Powell Smith

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

ISBN: 978-1-61608-421-9

Printed in China

Editor: Ann Treistman
Designer: Brian Peterson
Production manager: Abigail Gehring

I have spent the past ten years on a one-man project to illustrate the entire Bible in LEGO building blocks. I have been inspired to do this for one reason: people should really know what's in the Bible. For a book that so many of us consider our ultimate moral guide and the very word of God, it can be shocking to consider how few people ever actually read it.

My goal is to present the Bible's content in a new, engaging, and fun way, and yet also to remain faithful to the way the Bible itself tells these stories. To this end, all of the text in this book is drawn from direct quotes of scripture. Chapter and verse numbers have been suppressed for stylistic reasons, but can be referenced at this book's accompanying website:
www.thebricktestament.com.

It has truly been a pleasure and a labor of love building and photographing all 1,400 of the illustrations collected here, and I do hope you enjoy the result.

Brendan Powell Smith

IN THE BEGINNING, WHEN GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THE EARTH
WAS FORMLESS AND EMPTY WITH DARKNESS
COVERING THE DEEP, AND THE SPIRIT OF
GOD WAS HOVERING OVER THE SURFACE OF
THE WATERS.

AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT. AND THERE WAS LIGHT. AND GOD SAW THAT THE LIGHT WAS GOOD.

GOD SEPARATED THE LIGHT FROM THE DARKNESS. GOD CALLED THE LIGHT DAY AND CALLED THE DARKNESS NIGHT. AND THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING:THE FIRST DAY.

THEN GOD SAID, LET THERE BE A VAULT TO SEPARATE THE WATERS UNDER THE VAULT FROM THE WATERS ABOVE THE VAULT. AND GOD MADE THE VAULT AND CALLED IT SKY. AND THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING:THE SECOND DAY.

THEN GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS UNDER THE SKY BE GATHERED TO ONE PLACE, AND LET THE DRY GROUND APPEAR. GOD CALLED THE DRY GROUND LAND AND THE WATERS SEAS. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.

GOD SAID, LET THE LAND PRODUCE PLANTS AND TREES OF EVERY KIND. AND THE LAND PRODUCED PLANTS AND TREES OF EVERY KIND. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING:THE THIRD DAY.

THEN GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHTS IN THE VAULT OF THE SKY TO SEPARATE THE DAY FROM THE NIGHT. AND LET THEM BE SIGNS TO MARK SEASONS, DAYS, AND YEARS. AND IT WAS SO: GOD MADE THE GREATER LIGHT TO RULE OVER THE DAY.

AND GOD MADE THE LESSER LIGHT TO RULE THE NIGHT AND THE STARS. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING:THE FOURTH DAY.

THEN GOD SAID, LET THE WATERS SWARM WITH SWARMS OF LIVING CREATURES, AND LET BIRDS FLY ABOVE THE EARTH ACROSS THE VAULT OF THE SKY.

AND IT WAS SO:GOD CREATED THE GREAT SEA MONSTERS AND CREATURES OF EVERY KIND WITH WHICH THE WATERS SWARM AND WINGED BIRDS OF EVERY KIND. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.

GOD BLESSED THEM, SAYING, BREED AND MULTIPLY. FILL THE SEAS. AND LET BIRDS MULTIPLY ON THE EARTH. AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING:THE FIFTH DAY.

THEN GOD SAID, LET THE LAND PRODUCE LIVING CREATURES:LIVESTOCK, CREEPING THINGS, AND WILD ANIMALS OF EVERY KIND. AND IT WAS SO:GOD MADE WILD ANIMALS, LIVESTOCK, AND CREATURES THAT CREEP ALONG THE GROUND OF EVERY KIND. AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.

THEN GOD SAID, LET US MAKE HUMANS IN OUR IMAGE,IN OUR LIKENESS. AND LET THEM RULE OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, THE BIRDS OF THE AIR, THE LIVESTOCK, AND ALL THE CREATURES THAT CREEP ALONG THE GROUND.