First public release of bible-data — open, machine-readable Bible texts in the public domain across 23 languages, with a consistent OSIS-based schema.
What's included
- 33 versions, ~470,000 verses total
- 3 formats per version: whole-Bible JSON, per-book JSON, indexed SQLite
- Originals: Westminster Leningrad Codex (Hebrew), Aleppo Codex, Textus Receptus, Vulgate, Clementine Vulgate
- OSIS book codes for consistent cross-version references
Languages
🇺🇸 English (5) · 🇩🇪 German (2) · 🇫🇷 French (3) · 🇮🇹 Italian (2) · 🇨🇳 Chinese (2) · plus Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Esperanto, Arabic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Greek, Latin
Quick start
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Licensing
Code under MIT. Each Bible text follows its own free-redistribution license declared in metadata.json — all are public domain or under a free-redistribution license. See SOURCES.md for details.