This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. Inside Washington's Museum of the Bible, a single volume that is like no other.

The so-called slave Bible, remarkable not for what's in it, but for what's not.

So about 90% of the Old Testament's been removed

and about 50% of the New Testament's been removed.

To put it another way, a normal King James version

has 1189 chapters in it.

Slave Bible has only 232.

Missing are chapters and verses that might have encouraged uprisings.

Book of Exodus, redacted. No story of Moses demanding Pharaoh let my people go

gone is Galatians and the verse there is neither bond nor free for ye are all one in Christ

Jesus and no Jeremiah nor free for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And no Jeremiah.

Woe unto him that useth his neighbor's service without wages.

What they've left in are verses such as

Ephesians 6-5 which is the famous verse slaves be obedient to your master

looking at this Bible it's hard to tell that anything's been taking out of it

that's correct I mean it looks like a normal. For many enslaved Africans this would have been the first time they were exposed to the Bible.

A Bible selectively edited to instill obedience, using religion to underpin the horror of slavery.

When people encounter this exhibit, what lasting impression do you want them to leave with?

But we want to pass the message on that may this never happen again.

The Bible itself is a whole book.

It's not one that you get to carve up and use this piece or that piece.

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