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| Lang | Slug | Name | Year | License | Reader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ar | svd |
الكتاب المقدس فان دايك (Smith-Van Dyck) | 1865 | public-domain | open |
| cs | bkr |
Bible kralická | 1613 | public-domain | open |
| de | elb1905 |
Elberfelder Bibel 1905 | 1905 | public-domain | open |
| de | luth1912 |
Lutherbibel 1912 | 1912 | public-domain | open |
| en | asv |
American Standard Version | 1901 | public-domain | open |
| en | dra |
Douay-Rheims American Edition | 1899 | public-domain | open |
| en | geneva1599 |
Geneva Bible 1599 | 1599 | public-domain | open |
| en | kjv |
King James Version | 1769 | public-domain | open |
| en | web |
World English Bible | 2000 | public-domain | open |
| eo | lsb |
La Sankta Biblio | 1926 | public-domain | open |
| fr | darby-fr |
Bible Darby Française | 1885 | public-domain | open |
| fr | lsg |
Louis Segond 1910 | 1910 | public-domain | open |
| fr | martin1744 |
Bible David Martin 1744 | 1744 | public-domain | open |
| gr | tr |
Textus Receptus (Stephanus 1550) | 1550 | public-domain | open |
| he | aleppo |
Aleppo Codex | 1000 | public-domain | open |
| he | wlc |
Westminster Leningrad Codex | 2008 | wlc-license | open |
| hu | kar |
Károli Biblia | 1908 | public-domain | open |
| it | diodati |
Bibbia Diodati 1649 | 1649 | public-domain | open |
| it | riveduta |
Bibbia Riveduta 1927 | 1927 | public-domain | open |
| la | clem |
Clementine Vulgate | 1592 | public-domain | open |
| la | vulg |
Biblia Sacra Vulgata | 405 | public-domain ⚠️ | open |
| nb | nb1930 |
Norsk Bibel 1930 | 1930 | public-domain ⚠️ | open |
| nl | dutch1917 |
De Heilige Schrift 1917 | 1917 | public-domain | open |
| pl | bg |
Biblia Gdańska | 1632 | public-domain | open |
| pt | almeida-livre |
Bíblia Livre (Almeida 1819, rev. 2018) | 2018 | cc-by | open |
| ro | vdc |
Biblia Cornilescu (Cyrillic script) | 1924 | public-domain | open |
| ru | synodal |
Синодальный перевод | 1876 | public-domain | open |
| sv | sv1917 |
Bibeln 1917 | 1917 | public-domain | open |
| uk | kp |
Куліш-Пулюй (1905) | 1905 | public-domain | open |
| vi | vi1934 |
Kinh Thánh 1934 | 1934 | public-domain | open |
| zh | cuv |
和合本 (Chinese Union Version, Traditional) | 1919 | public-domain | open |
| zh | cuvs |
和合本 (Chinese Union Version, Simplified) | 1919 | public-domain | open |
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
public-domain |
Text is in the public domain in the source jurisdiction and most others. |
cc0 |
Released under Creative Commons Zero (effectively public domain). |
cc-by |
Creative Commons Attribution. |
cc-by-sa |
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. |
wlc-license |
Westminster Leningrad Codex license — free copy, distribute, modify. |
Copyright duration varies by country. Most public-domain claims in this repository rest on the life-plus-70-years rule used in the EU, UK, and most Latin American countries, plus the pre-1929 rule for U.S. publications. Translations entered the public domain on different dates in different jurisdictions.
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unfoldingWord/en_ult, BibleTranslationTools, and others).ron1924), and that source has no John 11: the chapter is absent, not renumbered (missingChapters in metadata.json).almeida-livre) — a 2018 revision of Almeida 1819 by Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio and Marco Teles, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Brazil. Attribution is mandatory; the suggested credit is in the attribution field of metadata.json.diodati) — the text is the 1885 revised edition published by eBible.org (ita1885), not the 1649 first edition.| Slug | License | Credit |
|---|---|---|
almeida-livre |
CC BY 4.0 BR | Bíblia Livre (BLIVRE), Copyright © 2018 Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio e Marco Teles, http://sites.google.com/site/biblialivre/. Licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Brasil. |
wlc |
WLC license | Westminster Leningrad Codex, J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research (https://tanach.us/). |
sourceVerified: false in metadata.json. The text is kept while we confirm its status; if a claim fails, the version is removed.
| Slug | What we know | What is not confirmed |
|---|---|---|
vulg |
~91% of verses match the “Latin Vulgate” in scrollmapper/bible_databases, tagged public domain there. | Which edition it is. Jerome’s text is public domain, but modern critical editions (e.g. Weber-Gryson, Stuttgart) are copyrighted. |
nb1930 |
99.9% of verses match “Bibelen på Norsk (1930)” in scrollmapper/bible_databases, tagged public domain there. | The legal basis for public domain in Norway (Bible Society translation, 1930). |
kjv, lsg, tr, aleppo, clem |
Public-domain texts by age. | No source file was recorded at import, so sourceUrl is empty. |
sourceUrl in each metadata.json points to the file the text was imported from: eBible.org (ebible.org/find/details.php?id=…), scrollmapper/bible_databases or tanach.us (WLC).
| Slug | Removed | Why |
|---|---|---|
dansk1931 |
2026-10-28 | The Old Testament is © 1931 Det Danske Bibelselskab, not public domain. Midvash took it offline (midvash.com/dansk1931 now redirects to da1871). |
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