About
Open Word Bible translates the Bible from its original languages into modern ones, English and Spanish first. Every verse carries a record of the original words and the reasoning behind each translation decision.
Licences
The translation, its reasoning records and the alignments are dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. The code is MIT-licensed. The source texts keep their own licences, credited below.
Source code and data: github.com/jdegreef/open-word-bible.
Credits
Open Word Bible is built on the following sources. Each is pinned to an exact commit in sources.lock.json. The original-language text is always loaded from these files; it is never typed by hand.
SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
The SBLGNT, v1.2, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. https://github.com/LogosBible/SBLGNT
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/. © 2022–2024 by Biblica, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0.
MACULA Greek includes:
- Glosses (
gloss) from the Berean Interlinear Bible (https://interlinearbible.com/). The Berean Bible and Majority Bible texts were officially placed into the public domain as of April 30, 2023. - Cherith Glosses for the Greek New Testament (
english), by Andi Wu, Copyright (C) 2023 by Cherith Analytics, licensed under CC BY 4.0. - Word-sense data from the United Bible Societies MARBLE project (
ln,domain), used with permission. Open Word Bible does not use or redistribute these fields.
The word extracts in data/grc/ are derived from MACULA Greek and carry its CC BY 4.0 licence. They hold, per word: id, text, following punctuation, lemma, morphology, the Berean and Cherith glosses, and Strong's number.
MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets
MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/. © 2022–2024 by Biblica, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0.
MACULA Hebrew includes Cherith Glosses for the Hebrew Old Testament, by Andi Wu, Copyright (C) 2022 by Cherith Analytics, licensed under CC BY 4.0; and the Westminster Hebrew Syntax, Copyright (C) 1991–2018 by The J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible
Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb
Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Westminster Leningrad Codex
The Hebrew text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex is in the public domain.
Reference Bibles (public domain)
From [seven1m/open-bibles](https://github.com/seven1m/open-bibles), pinned in sources.lock.json: the Berean Standard Bible, the World English Bible, the American Standard Version (1901), the King James Version (Crown copyright applies in the United Kingdom), Young's Literal Translation (New Testament) and the Reina-Valera 1909. These are used for comparison and review only; Open Word Bible is translated from the Hebrew and Greek.