AnkyraTranslations and licenses
Ankyra only includes Bible translations that are in the public domain or under an open license. Here is where each one comes from, its license and exactly what we changed.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Default for its language- License
- Public Domain (CC0 1.0)
- Attribution
- The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain. Free resources and databases are available at BereanBible.com.
- Changes we made
- Verse text verbatim from the official bsb.txt. Section headings, cross-references and footnotes are not included. Psalm superscriptions are kept separately as titles.
- Database file
- bsb.sqlite (SQLite, 8.6 MB)
King James Version (KJV)
- Attribution
- King James Version (1769 standard text), public domain. Text courtesy of the CrossWire Bible Society and eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse text verbatim (1769 standard text). Apocrypha, footnotes and Strong's numbers are not included. Paragraph marks became paragraph breaks.
- Database file
- kjv.sqlite (SQLite, 9.0 MB)
World English Bible (WEB)
- Attribution
- World English Bible (WEB), public domain. Master copy at eBible.org/web and WorldEnglish.Bible.
- Changes we made
- Verse text verbatim (Protestant edition, engwebp). Footnotes and Strong's numbers are not included.
- Database file
- web.sqlite (SQLite, 8.8 MB)
Reina-Valera 1909 (RV1909)
Default for its language- License
- Dominio público
- Attribution
- Santa Biblia Reina-Valera 1909, dominio público. Texto de eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse wording unchanged. Footnotes and section headings are not included. Psalm superscriptions are kept separately as titles. The names of the Hebrew letters in Psalm 119 and the non-canonical subscriptions at the end of the epistles were removed. The all-caps first word of each chapter was normalized to ordinary spelling.
- Database file
- rv1909.sqlite (SQLite, 8.7 MB)
Biblica® Open Nueva Biblia Viva 2008 (NBV)
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Attribution
- Biblica® Open Nueva Biblia Viva™ Copyright © 2006, 2008 by Biblica, Inc. “Biblica” es una marca registrada en la oficina de Patentes y Marcas de los Estados Unidos por Biblica, Inc. Usado con permiso. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The original Work by its copyright holders is available for free at www.biblica.com and open.bible. Cambios: se convirtió a base de datos y se omitieron los títulos de sección y las notas; el texto de los versículos no se modificó. Biblica no necesariamente respalda estos cambios.
- Changes we made
- Converted to a database. Section headings and footnotes were omitted; the verse text was not modified. This database is distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Biblica does not necessarily endorse these changes.
- Database file
- nbv.sqlite (SQLite, 8.8 MB)
Bíblia Livre (BLIVRE)
Default for its language- License
- CC BY 4.0 Brasil
- Attribution
- Todas as Escrituras em português citadas são da Bíblia Livre (BLIVRE), Copyright © Diego Santos, Mario Sérgio, e Marco Teles, http://sites.google.com/site/biblialivre/ - fevereiro de 2018. Licença Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Brasil (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/br/). Reprodução permitida desde que devidamente mencionados fonte e autores. Alterações: convertida para banco de dados; notas, títulos de seção, nomes das letras hebraicas do Salmo 119 e subscrições finais das epístolas omitidos; texto dos versículos sem outras alterações.
- Changes we made
- Converted to a database. Footnotes and section headings were omitted. The names of the Hebrew letters in Psalm 119 and the subscriptions at the end of the epistles were removed. Verse text otherwise unchanged.
- Database file
- blivre.sqlite (SQLite, 8.7 MB)
Lutherbibel 1912 (LUT1912)
Default for its language- License
- Gemeinfrei (Public Domain)
- Attribution
- Lutherbibel 1912, gemeinfrei. Text von eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse text unchanged. Footnotes, Strong's numbers and section headings are not included. Luther's alternative verse numbers in brackets were removed, and 116 Psalm superscriptions that were inside verse 1 were moved to titles.
- Database file
- luther1912.sqlite (SQLite, 8.9 MB)
Unrevidierte Elberfelder 1905 (ELB1905)
- License
- Gemeinfrei (Public Domain)
- Attribution
- Darby Unrevidierte Elberfelder (1905), übersetzt von Julius Anton von Poseck, Carl Brockhaus und John Nelson Darby; gemeinfrei. Text von eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse text unchanged. Footnotes and section headings are not included. 116 Psalm superscriptions that were inside verse 1 were moved to titles.
- Database file
- elb1905.sqlite (SQLite, 9.3 MB)
Louis Segond 1910 (LSG)
Default for its language- License
- Domaine public
- Attribution
- La Sainte Bible, traduction Louis Segond 1910. Domaine public. Texte fourni par eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse text unchanged. Footnotes, section headings and the modern book introductions of the source edition are not included. Verse numbering was mapped to the KJV numbering: 62 Psalm titles numbered as verses and 53 superscriptions inside verse 1 were moved to titles, and 15 blocks of chapters with different chapter breaks were renumbered.
- Database file
- lsg1910.sqlite (SQLite, 9.4 MB)
Bible J.N. Darby (JND)
- License
- Domaine public
- Attribution
- La Bible, traduction J. N. Darby. Domaine public. Texte fourni par eBible.org.
- Changes we made
- Verse text unchanged. Footnotes and section headings are not included. Verse numbering was mapped to the KJV numbering: 62 Psalm titles numbered as verses and 54 superscriptions inside verse 1 were moved to titles, and 33 blocks of chapters with different chapter breaks were renumbered.
- Database file
- darby.sqlite (SQLite, 9.5 MB)
文語訳聖書（明治元訳 旧約・大正改訳 新約） (文語訳)
Default for its language- License
- パブリックドメイン（旧約1887年・新約1917年刊）
- Attribution
- 文語訳聖書：明治元訳「舊約聖書」（1887年、底本1953年版）・大正改訳「新約聖書」（1917年）。パブリックドメイン。テキスト：CrossWire Bible Society（JapBungo）。
- Changes we made
- Verse text unchanged. Leftover ruby markup was cleaned in 3 verses. No notes are included.
- Database file
- bungo.sqlite (SQLite, 15.6 MB)
Other sources
- Verse suggestions by topic (How I feel) from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY 4.0, reviewed by hand. openbible.info · CC BY 4.0
- Bible in a Year plan: Robert Murray M'Cheyne's reading plan (1842), public domain.
- Historical context checked against Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) and Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, both public domain. They are not included in the app.
- The Nueva Biblia Viva database in Ankyra is an adaptation under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the Bíblia Livre one is under CC BY 4.0. You can copy and share their text from the app. You can download the database files below each translation.
- Fonts: Literata, Figtree and DM Mono, under the SIL Open Font License.
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