The paper is devoted to the study of intertextual elements’ translation in terms of the Manipulation School of translation that studies translation as a mean of manipulation and its direct impact on reader’s perception. The paper studies methods of translation of the largest group of intertextual elements in fiction – intertextual elements from the Bible. Based on the comparative analysis of the intertextual elements from the Bible in original literary texts in English and their translations, which were performed in the Soviet period, we can see manipulation of reader’s perception by intentional omission or replacement of the intertextual elements.