Attribution & licences
This site is assembled from public-domain scripture and openly licensed scholarship. Every dataset below requires attribution, and this page is generated from the bundle itself — if a dataset is used, its credit appears here.
Scripture text
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (BSB), is dedicated to the public domain. Its own terms state that licensing is not required for any use.
Permissive sources
The display text for all 31,102 verses, and the structure it is set in — paragraphs, poetry lineation, section headings, translator footnotes and the words of Christ.
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB. Dedicated to the public domain by the Berean Bible Translation Committee and Bible Hub.
Public DomainCC0-1.0
Person records with their Hebrew and Greek names, family relationships, person-to-verse links, places, dated events and epochs, the 613 commandments, Strong's Hebrew lexicon, Ussher's chronology, and the public-domain Nave's and Hitchcock's reference works.
Brady Stephenson (2026). BibleData: Structured Datasets from the Holy Bible (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19539956
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-4.0
Speaker attribution for direct speech — what powers accurate red-letter rendering.
Speaker attribution data from Clear Bible, used under CC BY 4.0.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-4.0
Coordinates for biblical places, plus competing modern site identifications with per-source scholarly support scores.
Geographic data from OpenBible.info, used under CC BY 4.0.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-4.0
344,799 vote-weighted verse-to-verse cross references — the bulk of the graph edge set.
Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info, used under CC BY.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-4.0
Share-alike sources
These carry a ShareAlike licence, which is viral: anything derived from them inherits the same obligation. Documents built from them are kept in a separate sa/ partition and stamped, so they can be identified and separated mechanically rather than by inspection.
450 curated events forming a genuine DAG, per-verse chronology, and verse text with person and place links already embedded.
Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified: reshaped into Open Knowledge Format documents.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalCC-BY-SA-4.0
Using this data
The derived knowledge bundle is available through the API. If you build on it, the same attributions apply to you — the source documents travel with the data for that reason.