Copyright, Bible licenses, and dataset attributions

Source usage by feature

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Public Studies are currently unavailable. Composer links into Explore Map (including Journeys) use the maps and geography sources described below.

English Standard Version® (ESV®)

How BibleBot uses the ESV: When ESV is enabled for a deployment, passage text is retrieved from Crossway’s servers using the ESV API (HTTP requests with an application API key; text is shown in the BibleBot interface, not bulk-stored as a replacement Bible module). General information about the translation: ESV.org.

Crossway describes API access as follows:

“Crossway allows you to access the ESV Bible text from our server and include it on your website or app, free of charge for non-commercial use. To learn more or register for the API, visit api.esv.org.”

Crossway’s published notice of copyright for digital works quoting the ESV reads:

“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025. 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 in whole or in part into any other language. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”

Limits on copying or downloading ESV text: Crossway’s Terms of Service for ESV.org (which governs use of Crossway’s ESV-related web services) state in part:

“You may download or print information from the Website, but you may not copy or download more than 500 consecutive verses or more than one-half of any book of the Bible or their equivalent measured in bytes.”

See the full Terms of Service for definitions (including what Crossway means by the “Website”), the rest of the license grant, and other conditions.

For broader context only: Crossway’s Guide to Permissions also describes standard-use rules for quoting the ESV in print, digital, and audio formats (for example when preparing your own publications or media). Those guidelines can include additional conditions—such as how much of your overall work may consist of quoted Scripture—that are distinct from viewing passages through an API-integrated app. Consult Crossway’s site for authoritative, up-to-date wording.

Authoritative policies and permission requests: Crossway — Guide to Permissions.

World English Bible (WEB)

BibleBot’s default English translation is typically the World English Bible Classic, served from this project’s own database copy. The WEB project’s official rights statement places the text in the public domain, allowing it to be copied, shared, and reused freely.

The same official statement explains that “World English Bible” is an eBible.org trademark and asks that a text changed from the official WEB not be distributed under that name. BibleBot’s optional section headings and summaries are a separate editorial layer; they do not modify WEB verse text and are not presented as part of the World English Bible.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

The native Passage and search integration uses the Berean Bible publisher's current official download, identified by the publisher as updated to its third printing. The publisher's official terms state that Berean Bible texts were dedicated to the public domain on April 30, 2023, and attribution is appreciated but not required. BibleBot preserves the BSB name for verbatim official text.

Current product status: native BSB reading, comparison, and search are deployed. The BSB v5.2 section-heading baseline is documented separately; translation tables, footnotes, and cross-references are not part of the native Bible-text integration and do not establish English-to-original-word alignment.

Attribution: The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain.

Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus (TR)

The native TR source is the BYZTXT repository's pinned, text-only 27-book New Testament transcription, based on the Scrivener 1894 text and transcribed by Maurice A. Robinson. BibleBot converts the source's ASCII transliteration to unaccented Greek script with a reversible letter map. The source contains no punctuation or apparatus, and BibleBot does not add either. The upstream README at the pinned commit identifies it as public domain; this is the maintainer's statement, not a Creative Commons license. BibleBot preserves the source's edition and coverage identity in reading and comparison.

Current product status: native TR reading and comparison are deployed. Coverage is New Testament only; Old Testament requests return unavailable and do not substitute WEB text.

TR annotation aid: separately pinned Robinson annotated TR source, identified by its maintainer as public domain, supplies annotations where a complete verse or one of 14 reviewed adjacent-verse pairs uniquely matches the exact Scrivener transcription. Coverage is 7,949 of 7,957 verses and 140,471 matched tokens; eight verses remain unavailable. BibleBot preserves source coordinates, variant branches and alternative numeric/morphology annotations, distinguishes documented verb tense/voice/mood codes from Strong identifiers, and supplies a single morphology or lexical link only when the source options agree. This is a Robinson annotation aid matched to Scrivener text, not an interchangeable text edition.

Passage section headings and summaries

What this layer is: BibleBot may display optional section titles and brief summaries above groups of verses. This editorial layer is independent of the selected translation. It is not part of the biblical text and can be turned off.

Source baseline: BibleBot uses section markers from the Berean Standard Bible v5.2 structured release across all 66 books. The Berean Bible’s official terms dedicate the text to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Source titles remain source-attributed; they are not presented as individually BibleBot-authored wording.

Boundary corroboration: BibleBot uses reference-and-count data from OpenBible.info’s Bible Section Counts project under CC BY 4.0. BibleBot extracts and transforms aggregate section-placement counts for editorial review. It does not import heading wording or verse text from the surveyed translations.

Scripture verification and reviewed overrides: BibleBot checks references and summary fidelity against its pinned public-domain World English Bible Classic source. WEB headings are not imported for this feature. Three Genesis 11 summaries are BibleBot-reviewed overrides; all other baseline titles remain attributed to BSB. Neither source-derived titles nor BibleBot summaries are part of the World English Bible or any other displayed translation.

Section-placement counts derived from OpenBible.info’s Bible Section Counts dataset, used under CC BY 4.0. BibleBot extracts and transforms reference/count rows; no surveyed translation’s heading wording or verse text is included.

New International Version 2011 (NIV)

How BibleBot uses the NIV: When enabled for a deployment, BibleBot retrieves passage text on demand from API.Bible. Bible text remains served from the upstream provider rather than redistributed here as a replacement Bible module.

“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.”

Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

How BibleBot uses the CSB: When enabled for a deployment, BibleBot retrieves passage text on demand from API.Bible.

“© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers”

New King James Version (NKJV)

How BibleBot uses the NKJV: When enabled for a deployment, BibleBot retrieves passage text on demand from API.Bible.

“New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.”

Other translations

Additional translations may appear if configured in a given deployment. Refer to the publisher or license associated with each translation in your environment.

Bible geography dataset

OpenBible Bible Geocoding is the first provenance-backed source BibleBot now exposes on map/place rows where dataset provenance is available. OpenBible describes the project as “the location of every identifiable place mentioned in the Bible” and publishes the dataset for reuse at openbible.info/geo.

OpenBible’s published usage statement says the geography dataset as a whole is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). BibleBot therefore preserves attribution to OpenBible.info when this dataset is surfaced in the product.

Primary source pages used for attribution and data access:

• OpenBible Bible Geocoding overview
• OpenBible merged geography data
• OpenBible Bible-Geocoding-Data repository

Some BibleBot place rows still rely on the project’s existing curated summaries and references while provenance-backed coverage expands. When provenance is shown in the UI, BibleBot is intentionally distinguishing sourced coordinate confidence from its own product copy.

Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary map previews are adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary © 2023 Tyndale House Publishers and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot serves only reviewed, source-labeled managed files where the active runtime provides the approved preview fields.

Biblica Open Bible Maps © 2023–2025 Biblica, Inc. are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot serves reviewed managed files only; the active API must also provide the approved media registry before they appear in Workbench.

Reference and study sources

BibleBot also uses or stages structured source data for cross references, original-language tools, context diagnostics with source metadata, and lookup features. Some of these source families are visible in the product today; others are internal, diagnostic, or staged only until product and license guardrails are complete.

Cross references

BibleBot reader-facing cross-reference data uses curated rows and public-domain World English Bible USFM marker rows. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge remains public-domain research/full-list fallback data. OpenBible Cross References are retained as staging data but are excluded from reader and research results after quality review. OpenBible Cross References are published by OpenBible.info under CC BY 4.0.

Original-language and lexical aids

Current language coverage: Passage offers an optional, selected-verse original-script reading mode where source numbering is verified, plus Language detail views for word study, grammar help, and source relationships. Selecting a source word opens its lexical detail. Published English-word alignment covers 7,891 of 7,941 BSB New Testament references, with 50 held under exact target-text, selector, or manual-alignment checks. It is not available for other translations or every BSB verse. Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic data remain identified by their own text and annotation provenance; MACULA Greek clause outlines cover all 27 New Testament books: 260 chapters.

• BSB alignment — 7,891 of 7,941 references published, 50 held: the alignment preserves word and phrase groups, explicit source-form differences, and literal annotation-token punctuation. Five references use exact source-token identity and complete-verse evidence from the pinned MACULA text. Nine more preserve the complete BSB text while leaving its terminal [’’] marker explicitly unaligned; all previously admitted records remain unchanged. Mark 12:29 separately retains its exact comma after “Hear” as visible, unaligned punctuation, with all original manual phrase groups preserved. A separate set of source relations preserves 220 manual groups for 15 held references, keeping the Greek source verses distinct. These relations do not enable English-word tapping at those references, transfer morphology, or determine word meanings. Credit: Biblica manual-alignment team / Clear Bible, Inc.; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek, under CC BY 4.0. BibleBot adds source contexts and coordinates while retaining the original groups and edition forms. MorphGNT parsing and lemma data are not exposed; the BSB text and SBLGNT forms retain their own source and license terms. No other translation is covered.
• SBL Greek New Testament, edited by Michael W. Holmes and represented within the MACULA SBLGNT corpus, is copyright © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software and licensed under CC BY 4.0. The MACULA annotation layer has separate provenance and attribution.
• Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) is the Masoretic base text represented in the local MACULA Hebrew corpus. The Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB) license identifies the WLC base text as public domain and the OSHB annotations as CC BY 4.0; these terms do not establish rights for manuscript images or other annotation layers.
• MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at Clear-Bible/macula-greek, © 2022–2024 Biblica, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0. The repository’s license and component notice credits source layers separately, including Cherith Glosses by Andi Wu / Cherith Analytics © 2023 for Greek English gloss fields.
• English-word alignment — 7,891 published BSB New Testament references: adapted from Bible Word Alignments © 2022 Clear Bible, Inc., under CC BY 4.0. The pinned manual alignment credits the Biblica team. Admission requires matching active BSB wording and verified source-token identity, count, order and forms against the actual annotation token stream. Source-attested Unicode/elision differences are recorded explicitly; other mismatches remain unavailable. Word/phrase groups and unaligned words are retained. BSB target text is public domain; SBLGNT source text is separately CC BY 4.0. This alignment establishes no coverage for other translations; 50 held references remain readable without English-word tapping.
• Scoped MorphGNT source-form evidence: the pinned MorphGNT SBLGNT 6.12 files verify exact Greek source forms in a narrowly qualified set of English-word alignments. The published addition records 651 token matches across 589 BSB references. The September 28 release adds 213 exact source-variant positions across 190 further complete-verse proofs, with two distinct pinned MACULA runtime-only witnesses. It does not expose MorphGNT parsing or lemma data, and it admits no general accent or punctuation normalization. MorphGNT parsing/lemmatization is CC BY-SA 3.0, while underlying SBLGNT text is separately CC BY 4.0. See the pinned MorphGNT source notice.
• MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets, available at Clear-Bible/macula-hebrew, © 2022–2024 Biblica, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0. Its license and component notice separately credits Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible data, J. Alan Groves Center Hebrew syntax © 1991–2018, and Cherith Glosses by Andi Wu / Cherith Analytics © 2022 for English gloss fields. These credits do not admit the separately licensed SDBH or UBS MARBLE semantic-domain fields.
• STEPBible Data, available at stepbible.github.io/STEPBible-Data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit to “STEP Bible” linked to STEPBible.org.
• Full TFLSJ dictionary — 11,034 source entries: articles use the pinned main TFLSJ lexicon and its separately identified extra component. Data created by STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, under CC BY 4.0. BibleBot adapts 10,956 entries into inert structured text and preserves one with unsupported markup as a labeled literal source transcription. Six entries preserve all source text by closing a single unfinished outer sense wrapper at the source-row boundary; ambiguous inline markup remains literal. Seventy-seven further entries provide source labels without definition text. The 10,846 base identifiers include 109 groups with distinct entries; BibleBot preserves their exact source variants and requires a choice where a base identifier is ambiguous. Source headwords, transliterations, word classes and article receipts remain separate from the selected passage word. Dictionary access does not require a biblical occurrence; older saved receipts retain their original edition identity.
• Historical BDB dictionary — 11,845 source articles: exact source-ID access uses the pinned Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon, including Brown-Driver-Briggs data, under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. There are 9,291 exact numeric or suffixed Strong mappings. Of the articles, 9,705 have one source-attested Hebrew or Aramaic language; 2,140 retain unspecified language. BibleBot preserves article identity, literal status, references and receipts in an inert structured-text adaptation. The upstream BDB is explicitly a work in progress.
• unfoldingWord reference grammars — 250 source articles: the Hebrew Grammar (88 articles), Aramaic Grammar (68), and Greek Grammar (94) are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Copyright © 2019 UHG, © 2021 UAG, and © 2023 UGG by unfoldingWord. The pinned licenses require this attribution for adapted works: “The original work by unfoldingWord is available from unfoldingword.org/uhg.” The separate links above identify each grammar. BibleBot adapts pinned source text, tables and references into inert structured articles, removes registered trademark symbols from adapted text as the license directs, and retains change notices and ShareAlike terms. Missing includes and unsupported constructs remain explicit; 154 articles are complete, 94 partial, and two under construction. Eleven Aramaic articles retain their exact source content and metadata warnings while being classified complete. Twenty-one further articles retain harmless duplicate root-anchor diagnostics as metadata, with their source text, ASTs and working anchors unchanged; missing content is not reconstructed. Readiness of an individual Summary or Glossary can differ from the whole article. Seventeen additional excerpts from a separately pinned newer Hebrew Grammar revision supply optional explanations at 32 missing-include locations in the Aramaic and Greek articles. They retain their own UHG attribution and CC BY-SA 4.0 terms, are adapted to inert structured text, and do not replace or complete the original articles.
• Literal participant and frame fields: MACULA Greek and Hebrew/Aramaic source fields are covered by their source-specific CC BY 4.0 notices. BibleBot preserves raw labels, pointers, source identities and unresolved targets; a frame label is not an inferred agent or patient definition.
  Field coverage and qualification

  Greek coverage comprises 40,990 annotated source tokens across all 27 books: 25,362 frame, 14,542 referent and 16,625 subject-reference fields. Of those fields, respectively 16,197, 10,240 and 11,775 meet the separate exact upstream Clear lineage and coordinate-mapping gates; other fields remain literal composite-source observations. Hebrew/Aramaic coverage comprises 121,033 annotated source tokens across 39 books, with 69,205 frame, 42,847 subject-reference and 51,759 participant-reference fields. The broad Hebrew/Aramaic reader remains verified literal composite-source transcription. A separate Genesis 1–2 qualification matches 173 literal fields across 133 selected source tokens to independently pinned annotation and WLC identities, including 129 referenced target tokens. Genesis 1 retains its 84 fields (51 frame, 31 subject-reference and two participant-reference fields); Genesis 2 adds 89 (45 frame, 31 subject-reference and 13 participant-reference fields). Only the seven approved identity/relationship fields are retained from the WLC projection; the full composite XML is not redistributed. This finite CC BY 4.0 projection is available to Ask only for an exact selected MACULA Hebrew token and an explicit relationship request; source groups are kept whole and budget omissions are disclosed. BibleBot formats these literal fields without adding meanings to role labels. It establishes no qualified relationship coverage beyond Genesis 1–2, and each admitted relationship keeps its exact chapter-local endpoints. Missing pointers, empty source forms and identity collisions are explicit. This admission excludes UBS semantic domains and SDBH, inferred semantic roles and unsupported sense fields. Literal transcription alone is not interpretive Ask evidence.

• UBS independent dictionaries — 5,507 Greek and 7,941 Hebrew entries: the full English v1.1 and v0.9.3 files from the pinned UBS Open License Resources include 738 Greek and 419 Hebrew lexical-domain records. Exact source IDs support independent search, full-article reading, explicit Ask requests, and attributed Composer excerpts. UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies 2023, adapted from Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © 2000–2023; UBS Dictionary of New Testament Greek © United Bible Societies 2023, adapted from Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Greek © 2018–2023, itself adapted from Louw and Nida © 1988, 1989. The exhaustive Greek lexical-reference list was created and made available by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). The Greek notice and Hebrew notice grant CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot retains source JSON in exact-ID records and bounded search indexes, linking domain descriptions only by exact same-corpus codes; the adaptation retains ShareAlike and changes notices. Original base forms, meaning groups, references and markup-like text remain source data. Exact source and MainId select an article; Strong aliases do not join it to a passage word or select a contextual sense. HasAramaic indicates entry-level coverage, not every word's language. These are the complete retained components, not exhaustive language coverage. This grant does not admit restricted MACULA semantic fields.
• HOTTP textual-analysis reports — 4,515 reports: the pinned United Bible Societies source XML, © 1973–1980, 2003–2023, is licensed under the component’s CC BY-SA 4.0 terms. The reader preserves the English and French report fields, 10,310 alternatives and 12,881 raw source-reference strings; separate same-commit English rating and factor guides explain the committee’s historical judgments. Users can explicitly select a report for Ask or send a bounded attributed excerpt to Composer. Raw source-reference strings are not Bible verse links. HOTTP records textual committee analysis, not diplomatic manuscript transcriptions or a verified apparatus. The reader adaptation retains UBS credit, the source/change notice and ShareAlike terms.
• UBS parallel passages — 2,193 source groups: United Bible Societies, UBS Parallel Passage Database (2023), from the pinned component, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot adapts its XML into ordered groups, retaining all 5,266 member references and raw HEB/GRK masks. Local group locators are BibleBot identifiers. The optional reader and explicitly selected Ask excerpts retain source attribution and ShareAlike; bounded excerpts disclose omitted members. Raw reference strings do not establish canonical passage links or word alignment. A full-match mask means at least one other group member matches, not every pair; OT quotations can use Septuagint word positions.
• Dictionary limits: a source article, selected passage word and occurrence list retain separate identities. Literal TFLSJ transcriptions are excluded from Ask article evidence. Neither a dictionary article nor an exact Strong mapping establishes contextual meaning, a manuscript reading, or comprehensive lexical coverage.

External manuscript and older-witness resources

Passage Language and Isaiah book Context include links to selected manuscript catalogs, a museum introduction, and an older inscription reference. BibleBot links to these external resources; it does not host their images, transcriptions, or apparatus, and the links are collection- or book-level rather than verse-specific evidence.

Optional passage examples add a named-edition comparison at Mark 1:41 (SBLGNT and Nestle 1904, with separately attributed STEPBible dictionary aids), scholarly reports of the Great Isaiah Scroll reading at Isaiah 53:11 (1QIsaa, column XLIV, line 19), and Deuteronomy 32:8 and 32:43 (4Q37 and 4Q44). The Isaiah report follows Simon Dürr, Religions 15 (2024), 1132, note 76. The Deuteronomy reports are factual paraphrases of Benjamin D. Sommer’s JTS handout, “Written in Stone? Writing and Rewriting the Bible”. BibleBot presents those reports with their source locators; it does not host a manuscript image, transcription, or translation. Each example identifies its evidence and limits; these are not a complete manuscript apparatus.

• Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library: fragmentary manuscript catalog and images; site text and images require permission for reuse.
• 11QpaleoLev scroll overview photograph: Shai Halevi on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, via Wikimedia Commons, under CC BY-SA 4.0; Commons records permission in Wikimedia VRT ticket 2020013010006326. BibleBot displays an unmodified copy behind an optional source disclosure and links to the source viewer. This grant applies to that image only, not other IAA images, transcriptions or a verified verse-level witness mapping.
• Greek P 457 (P52) recto and verso photographs: RylandsImaging, via Wikimedia Commons, under CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot displays unmodified copies. The custodian identifies fragments of John 18:31–33 on the recto and 18:37–38 on the verso; these photographs do not supply complete verse text, verse-region mappings, or transcriptions. Other photographs, modern transcriptions and apparatuses require separate rights.
• ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls Text-Fabric corpus: fragmentary transcriptions and annotations under CC BY-NC 4.0; that dataset license is separate from the software license and does not authorize commercial redistribution.
• New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room: manuscript catalog, images, and research tools with access and rights varying by witness and custodian.
• Great Isaiah Scroll introduction: an Israel Museum overview of one witness, not a verse-level transcription or apparatus; the publication and images are copyrighted.
• Ketef Hinnom silver amulets: a scholarly article about short inscriptions related to the Priestly Benediction, not a copy of Numbers; article and catalog materials have separate rights.

Brenton English Septuagint quotation examples: four short excerpts from Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton’s 1851 English translation, identified as public domain in the eBible.org digitized preface. The examples pair Isaiah 7:14, Psalms 118:22 and 40:6 (with Septuagint numbering shown separately), and Deuteronomy 8:3 with New Testament references recorded in Brenton’s marginal notes. Each links to its digitized chapter. These are English translation excerpts and source cross-references; they provide no Greek word alignment or manuscript evidence.

Swete Greek Septuagint text: 80 print-qualified passage excerpts cover Genesis 1:1–31, 2:1–25 and 3:1–24 from Henry Barclay Swete’s 1901 edition, digitized by OpenGreekAndLatin First1KGreek, with the two original excerpt receipts also retaining the pinned nathans/lxx-swete derivative. The digital sources are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. BibleBot’s adaptation records 11 print-verified Genesis 1 and ten Genesis 2 transcription corrections alongside original source text and print locators; Genesis 2:7 retains its original excerpt receipt. The two additional excerpts map separate paragraphs of native Greek Genesis III:1 to canonical Genesis 2:25 and 3:1 using printed alternate Hebrew references and the pinned WEB verse boundaries. The second paragraph retains its recorded duplicate-phrase correction; the whole native Greek verse is not assigned to either canonical verse. Twenty-three further excerpts map native III:2–24 by independently reviewed complete verse boundaries, retaining five print corrections and exact original forms. These are reference maps, not word alignment or morphology; the wording differences at 3:15, 3:20 and 3:24 remain explicit. Credit: Swete, First1KGreek and the identified derivative. The adapted text remains CC BY-SA 4.0.

Full Genesis source transcription: a separate source-coordinate browser retains all 50 pinned TEI chapters, including the original text, paragraph/poetic-line order, notes and alternate or line markers. It is conspicuously labeled not fully proofread. Its 1,523 enclosing coordinate labels are not a claim of complete canonical verse mapping. Only the 57 separately qualified passage excerpts have canonical joins and Ask eligibility. A separate print exhibit qualifies all 24 native chapter III coordinates. The native IV:1–16 exhibit qualifies 14 readings and holds IV:1 and IV:9 for uncertain printed diacritics; held rows retain the original transcription without a qualified reading. IV:17 is outside that reviewed slice. An independent scan of the same 1901 edition resolves the final iota subscript in III:14; the original source form and exact correction remain available. It retains exact paragraph spans, printed alternate Hebrew references, original text and enumerated corrections from printed pages 4–6 under the same digital-text attribution and CC BY-SA 4.0 terms. Native-unit browsing adds no further canonical joins or Ask evidence beyond the two separately qualified paragraph excerpts. Scan images are independently sourced audit evidence; the digital-text license does not grant scan-image rights. Links identify both the page and title-page evidence. These edited Greek texts contain no admitted morphology or manuscript apparatus, and the source browser is not a translation-picker edition.

First1KGreek Septuagint source collection — 57 edition files: the optional source browser preserves 57 edition transcriptions across 55 work IDs from the pinned First1KGreek collection. Each file’s header grants CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit: First1KGreek / Open Greek and Latin Project, University of Leipzig; Henry Barclay Swete (55 files), John Henry Arthur Hart and Richard Rusden Ottley (one file each). BibleBot’s inert source-coordinate display preserves original text, notes, markers and separate edition identities; this adaptation remains CC BY-SA 4.0. Exact print bibliographies and source links accompany each edition. The collection is partial (Ecclesiastes has no TEI text at this pin) and not fully proofread; it adds no canonical passage mapping, morphology, manuscript-witness claims or Ask eligibility. Only the 80 separately print-qualified passage excerpts have passage links.

Greek Wikisource Ecclesiastes — 222 verses in 12 chapters: credit to Greek Wikisource contributors, revision 102852, and Open Greek Corpus. The ancient text is public domain; the contributor transcription and BibleBot’s adaptation are provided under CC BY-SA 4.0. The upstream corpus describes this as an ecclesiastical/Byzantine-tradition recension. It remains a separate edition from Swete and First1KGreek, with native numbering, no independent print collation, no canonical crosswalk and no morphology. BibleBot replays the pinned parser’s markup normalization, retaining the enclosed words while removing formatting and delimiter markup; the raw revision, source receipt and change notice remain available in the retained source package.

Lookup and dictionary sources

BibleBot lookup features use source-separated views for Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary © 2023 Tyndale House Publishers and the Aquifer Open Bible Dictionary, an adaptation of that dictionary created by Mission Mutual. Both are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 and retain source-specific attribution; BibleBot formatting, sanitization, and display adaptation are BibleBot changes. BibleBot may also use public-domain sources such as Easton’s Bible Dictionary, Smith’s Bible Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, and constrained exact-reference topic labels from Nave’s Topical Bible. These sources remain separate, attributed rows rather than BibleBot-authored conclusions.

Source-direct Context

Tyndale Open Study Notes (release 1.25), © 2022 Tyndale House Publishers, and unfoldingWord English Translation Notes (the official v90 release where available, plus a separately pinned unpublished working-branch supplement for the ten books absent from v90), © 2022 unfoldingWord, are separate named-source readers under CC BY-SA 4.0. The supplement is not a numbered upstream release.

Adapted from Tyndale Open Study Notes. The original work by Tyndale House Publishers is available for free at Tyndale Open Resources. The original work by unfoldingWord is available from unfoldingword.org/utn.

BibleBot converts the source files into formatted paragraphs and Scripture links for safe display; source wording is not intentionally changed. These display adaptations remain under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source notes and their perspectives remain separate from Scripture and AI assistance.

Additional candidate attribution

SemanticBible metadata from SemanticBible / Sean Boisen is tracked as a metadata-only candidate source family for reference structures, semantic indexes, and gospel-harmony/pericope diagnostics such as the Composite Gospel Pericope Index. SemanticBible-origin metadata is attributed to SemanticBible / Sean Boisen under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; see the SemanticBible license page. BibleBot does not bundle, copy, transform, or display the ESV or RSV scripture text shown on SemanticBible pages; those Bible translations remain separate third-party rights. If SemanticBible metadata is promoted into a public feature, rows must retain SemanticBible / Sean Boisen attribution, license links, provenance, change notices, and NonCommercial/ShareAlike markers.