The Moby-Dick Bible

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All 135 chapters and the Epilogue. Read it straight through as Melville set it, or verse by verse, with every verse marked and linkable.

  1. Chapter 1 Loomings 29 verses
  2. Chapter 2 The Carpet-Bag 17 verses
  3. Chapter 3 The Spouter-Inn 71 verses
  4. Chapter 4 The Counterpane 19 verses
  5. Chapter 5 Breakfast 10 verses
  6. Chapter 6 The Street 12 verses
  7. Chapter 7 The Chapel 12 verses
  8. Chapter 8 The Pulpit 9 verses
  9. Chapter 9 The Sermon 45 verses
  10. Chapter 10 A Bosom Friend 20 verses
  11. Chapter 11 Nightgown 8 verses
  12. Chapter 12 Biographical 11 verses
  13. Chapter 13 Wheelbarrow 20 verses
  14. Chapter 14 Nantucket 8 verses
  15. Chapter 15 Chowder 15 verses
  16. Chapter 16 The Ship 59 verses
  17. Chapter 17 The Ramadan 27 verses
  18. Chapter 18 His Mark 18 verses
  19. Chapter 19 The Prophet 14 verses
  20. Chapter 20 All Astir 9 verses
  21. Chapter 21 Going Aboard 13 verses
  22. Chapter 22 Merry Christmas 20 verses
  23. Chapter 23 The Lee Shore 5 verses
  24. Chapter 24 The Advocate 18 verses
  25. Chapter 25 Postscript 4 verses
  26. Chapter 26 Knights and Squires 13 verses
  27. Chapter 27 Knights and Squires 19 verses
  28. Chapter 28 Ahab 14 verses
  29. Chapter 29 Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb 12 verses
  30. Chapter 30 The Pipe 4 verses
  31. Chapter 31 Queen Mab 12 verses
  32. Chapter 32 Cetology 73 verses
  33. Chapter 33 The Specksnyder 7 verses
  34. Chapter 34 The Cabin-Table 24 verses
  35. Chapter 35 The Mast-Head 21 verses
  36. Chapter 36 The Quarter-Deck 36 verses
  37. Chapter 37 Sunset 7 verses
  38. Chapter 38 Dusk 6 verses
  39. Chapter 39 First Night-Watch 3 verses
  40. Chapter 40 Midnight, Forecastle 18 verses
  41. Chapter 41 Moby Dick 32 verses
  42. Chapter 42 The Whiteness of the Whale 30 verses
  43. Chapter 43 Hark! 5 verses
  44. Chapter 44 The Chart 19 verses
  45. Chapter 45 The Affidavit 37 verses
  46. Chapter 46 Surmises 10 verses
  47. Chapter 47 The Mat-Maker 9 verses
  48. Chapter 48 The First Lowering 47 verses
  49. Chapter 49 The Hyena 8 verses
  50. Chapter 50 Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah 9 verses
  51. Chapter 51 The Spirit-Spout 20 verses
  52. Chapter 52 The Albatross 9 verses
  53. Chapter 53 The Gam 17 verses
  54. Chapter 54 The Town-Ho’s Story 83 verses
  55. Chapter 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales 22 verses
  56. Chapter 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes 12 verses
  57. Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars 12 verses
  58. Chapter 58 Brit 9 verses
  59. Chapter 59 Squid 11 verses
  60. Chapter 60 The Line 12 verses
  61. Chapter 61 Stubb Kills a Whale 24 verses
  62. Chapter 62 The Dart 5 verses
  63. Chapter 63 The Crotch 5 verses
  64. Chapter 64 Stubb’s Supper 27 verses
  65. Chapter 65 The Whale as a Dish 12 verses
  66. Chapter 66 The Shark Massacre 5 verses
  67. Chapter 67 Cutting In 5 verses
  68. Chapter 68 The Blanket 12 verses
  69. Chapter 69 The Funeral 6 verses
  70. Chapter 70 The Sphynx 9 verses
  71. Chapter 71 The Jeroboam’s Story 26 verses
  72. Chapter 72 The Monkey-Rope 21 verses
  73. Chapter 73 Stubb and Flask kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him 25 verses
  74. Chapter 74 The Sperm Whale’s Head—Contrasted View 19 verses
  75. Chapter 75 The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View 15 verses
  76. Chapter 76 The Battering-Ram 9 verses
  77. Chapter 77 The Great Heidelburgh Tun 6 verses
  78. Chapter 78 Cistern and Buckets 17 verses
  79. Chapter 79 The Prairie 11 verses
  80. Chapter 80 The Nut 11 verses
  81. Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin 45 verses
  82. Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling 9 verses
  83. Chapter 83 Jonah Historically Regarded 8 verses
  84. Chapter 84 Pitchpoling 10 verses
  85. Chapter 85 The Fountain 24 verses
  86. Chapter 86 The Tail 23 verses
  87. Chapter 87 The Grand Armada 44 verses
  88. Chapter 88 Schools and Schoolmasters 14 verses
  89. Chapter 89 Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 16 verses
  90. Chapter 90 Heads or Tails 11 verses
  91. Chapter 91 The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud 28 verses
  92. Chapter 92 Ambergris 11 verses
  93. Chapter 93 The Castaway 19 verses
  94. Chapter 94 A Squeeze of the Hand 15 verses
  95. Chapter 95 The Cassock 4 verses
  96. Chapter 96 The Try-Works 24 verses
  97. Chapter 97 The Lamp 3 verses
  98. Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up 10 verses
  99. Chapter 99 The Doubloon 23 verses
  100. Chapter 100 Leg and Arm 25 verses
  101. Chapter 101 The Decanter 18 verses
  102. Chapter 102 A Bower in the Arsacides 18 verses
  103. Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton 11 verses
  104. Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale 14 verses
  105. Chapter 105 Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?—Will He Perish? 13 verses
  106. Chapter 106 Ahab’s Leg 8 verses
  107. Chapter 107 The Carpenter 11 verses
  108. Chapter 108 Ahab and the Carpenter 21 verses
  109. Chapter 109 Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin 10 verses
  110. Chapter 110 Queequeg in His Coffin 22 verses
  111. Chapter 111 The Pacific 4 verses
  112. Chapter 112 The Blacksmith 9 verses
  113. Chapter 113 The Forge 14 verses
  114. Chapter 114 The Gilder 7 verses
  115. Chapter 115 The Pequod Meets The Bachelor 7 verses
  116. Chapter 116 The Dying Whale 7 verses
  117. Chapter 117 The Whale Watch 5 verses
  118. Chapter 118 The Quadrant 9 verses
  119. Chapter 119 The Candles 29 verses
  120. Chapter 120 The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch 2 verses
  121. Chapter 121 Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks 7 verses
  122. Chapter 122 Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning 1 verse
  123. Chapter 123 The Musket 12 verses
  124. Chapter 124 The Needle 13 verses
  125. Chapter 125 The Log and Line 12 verses
  126. Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy 14 verses
  127. Chapter 127 The Deck 9 verses
  128. Chapter 128 The Pequod Meets The Rachel 13 verses
  129. Chapter 129 The Cabin 7 verses
  130. Chapter 130 The Hat 15 verses
  131. Chapter 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight 4 verses
  132. Chapter 132 The Symphony 16 verses
  133. Chapter 133 The Chase—First Day 36 verses
  134. Chapter 134 The Chase—Second Day 31 verses
  135. Chapter 135 The Chase.—Third Day 54 verses
  136. Epilogue Epilogue 4 verses