Credits

Readability is built on public-domain and openly licensed work. This page credits the projects whose texts and data the app uses, with their licenses.

Texts and data

• Berean Standard Bible (Public domain)

  The default Bible text. Dedicated to the public domain by the Berean Bible project in 2023; its section headings are used in the reader, and its word-by-word translation tables supply the aligned English line in the word study.

• eBible.org (Public-domain texts)

  Source of the American Standard Version, Geneva Bible (1599), Young's Literal Translation, and Darby Translation texts, and home of the World English Bible translation project. The King James text is likewise public domain.

• STEP Bible / Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0)

  The Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT and Greek NT (TAHOT/TAGNT) from STEPBible-Data provide the word-by-word tagging and the short English meaning shown for each word in the Greek and Hebrew word study, and the proper-names dataset (TIPNR) provides the family relationships and per-person passage index shown on dictionary person articles. Dataset on GitHub.

• Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA)

  Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries (1890/1894) in JSON, used for the lexicon entries in the word study.

• OpenBible.info (CC-BY / CC BY 4.0)

  The expanded Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references power the cross-reference feature, and the Bible Geocoding dataset supplies place locations.

• Natural Earth (Public domain)

  Coastlines, lakes, and rivers behind the chapter maps and the atlas, rendered as a self-hosted vector basemap.

• GMRT (Open access, citation requested)

  The Global Multi-Resolution Topography synthesis supplies the elevation data behind the terrain shading and the reconstruction of the biblical-era Dead Sea on the chapter maps and the atlas.

• Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  The per-verse study notes in the verse panel and the book introductions, adapted from Tyndale House Publishers' open release of their study-Bible apparatus. Adapted from Tyndale Open Study Notes; the original work is available for free at tyndaleopenresources.com.

• Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  The Bible dictionary: 6,010 articles on the people, places, events, and terms of the Bible. Adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary; the original work is available for free at tyndaleopenresources.com.

Software

The site itself runs on open-source software: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, and Capacitor, among many smaller libraries.