Open Word Bible is drafted with the help of AI. We say so plainly, because a project that promises to show its work cannot be vague about who did the work.
What the AI does
The AI drafts. For each sentence it produces the literal gloss, the three levels of translation in each language, and the decisions with their alternatives and reasons. It works within strict rules: the original-language text is loaded from fixed source data and never typed by hand; meaning decisions are kept separate from wording decisions; reader settings may change only wording; and decisions that are close calls must be marked uncertain. Software checks those rules on every change.
What the AI does not do
It does not decide that its own work is correct. Nothing is marked reviewed by an AI. Every sentence starts with the status AI draft, and it stays that way until a named human reviewer approves it.
The review steps
A sentence moves through these statuses:
- AI draft. Written, checked by software, not yet read by a reviewer.
- Meaning reviewed. A reviewer trained in Hebrew or Greek has checked the meaning decisions: what the text says.
- Reviewed. The wording has also been checked by a fluent reader of the language it is translated into.
- Revised. The sentence has been changed after review, with the reason recorded.
Every review is recorded with the reviewer’s name, so the history of each sentence can be traced.
You can always see the status
The reader shows each sentence’s status. Today every sentence on this site is an AI draft, and the home page says so with a count: zero reviewed so far.
Help review
If you read Greek or Hebrew, or are a native speaker of Spanish who can judge whether a sentence reads naturally, we would value your help. Everything is open on GitHub, including every decision and its reasoning. Disagreeing with a decision, and saying why, is exactly the kind of help the project needs.