The Story is a unique presentation of the Bible, using the readable Today’s New International Version. Unlike The Reader’s Digest Bible, which condenses the actual Bible’s text, The Story chronologically presents selected (but not condensed) excerpts from the Bible and adds italicized summaries of portions that it skips. Line spaces also indicate omitted text. The Story consists of thirty-one chapters; the first twenty-one survey the OT, and the last ten survey the NT. It includes excerpts from 361 of the 1,189 chapters in the Bible (231 of the 929 OT chapters and 130 of the 260 NT chapters).