Sources & licences

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Texts

• King James Version (KJV). Public domain, 1611/1769.

All three are public domain, which is why they can be served freely and cached offline in full. Copyrighted translations are deliberately not included, because their licences do not permit this kind of redistribution. That rules out the NIV, the ESV, the NLT and the Good News Translation, whose text is held by the American Bible Society.

The Catholic canon

The seven deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees) are included in Catholic canonical order, from the Catholic Public Domain Version. They sit where a Catholic Bible places them, so reading straight through goes from Nehemiah into Tobit rather than skipping past.

The Greek additions to Esther and Daniel are here too, from the same version. A Catholic Bible prints them inside those two books, which gives its Esther 16 chapters and its Daniel 14 against the King James 10 and 12. To keep King James numbering for Esther and Daniel, they are set out as four short books of their own: the Additions to Esther after Esther, and the Prayer of Azariah, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon after Daniel. Their verses are numbered from 1, and each page says where the passage sits in a Catholic Bible.

One thing is not here yet. The explore panel is thin on the deuterocanon: the open datasets behind the cross references, people and places only cover the 66 books shared by every canon.

Open datasets

• Theographic Bible Metadata : people, places, events and verse-level links (3,067 people, 1,264 places, 450 events). CC BY-SA 4.0.
• OpenBible.info cross references : 343,540 verse-to-verse links, ranked by reader votes. CC BY.
• scrollmapper/bible_databases : machine-readable public domain texts.
• Natural Earth : coastlines and rivers for the atlas. Public domain.
• Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897): the dictionary entries on people and place pages. Public domain.

Caveats worth knowing

Cross references are a scholarly tradition, not a fixed fact: the set here descends from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, and its order reflects the votes of OpenBible.info readers rather than any settled ranking. Dates and place identifications are contested in places; the atlas shows a best-guess coordinate, and some sites are disputed or unknown. Chapter and verse divisions are later additions to the text.