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Bible translations
Of the 14 Bible translations on DocuBible, 8 are used by permission of their publishers: they are read live from the publisher each time, never stored by DocuBible, and may not be copied or downloaded in bulk. The other 6 are in the public domain.
New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB2020)
Scripture quotations from the New American Standard Bible – NASB 2020 Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission. The Lockman Foundation
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
Scripture quotations from the New American Standard Bible – NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission. The Lockman Foundation
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Scripture quotations from the Amplified® Bible – AMP Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission. The Lockman Foundation
New International Version (NIV)
The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Biblica
New International Reader's Version (NIrV)
Holy Bible, New International Reader's Version®, NIrV® Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Biblica
New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
The Holy Bible, New International Version® (Anglicised), NIV® Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide. Biblica
New Living Translation (NLT)
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, a Division of Tyndale House Ministries, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. NewLivingTranslation.com Tyndale House Publishers
English Standard Version (ESV)
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated into any other language. Users may not copy or download more than 500 verses of the ESV Bible or more than one half of any book of the ESV Bible. www.esv.org
Public domain
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), King James Version (KJV), World English Bible (WEB), American Standard Version (ASV), Bible in Basic English (BBE), Young's Literal Translation (YLT): in the public domain in the United States. (In the United Kingdom, the rights in the King James Version are vested in the Crown.) Their text comes from the Free Use Bible API (bible.helloao.org).
Word study
The Greek and Hebrew word study is built from these openly licensed and public-domain sources.
- MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets: Greek New Testament words, grammar and glosses (SBLGNT text). MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/. CC BY 4.0.
- MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets: Hebrew Old Testament words, grammar and glosses (WLC text). MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew/. CC BY 4.0.
- Clear Bible Alignments: Manually checked word alignments for the BSB and YLT. Alignments © Biblica, Inc. / Clear Bible, https://github.com/Clear-Bible/Alignments. CC BY 4.0.
- STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge): Short glosses (Tyndale House scholars) and Greek brief definitions (Abbott-Smith, 1922). Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge. CC BY 4.0.
- Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890): Strong's numbers, definitions, KJV usage (digitized by Open Scriptures). Open Scriptures (openscriptures.org). Public domain text; Hebrew data CC BY 4.0.
- Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906): Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon entries (abridged digitization). Open Scriptures HebrewLexicon. Public domain text; digitization CC BY 4.0.
- Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (1889): Full Greek lexicon entries. Digitized dataset by nigelmsipa/thayers-greek-lexicon-dataset. Public domain (CC0).
- King James Version with Strong's numbers: KJV word tags. eBible.org eng-kjv2006. Public domain.
Cross-references
The example connections chart on the home page uses cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) and built on the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
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