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Public domain
The Berean Standard Bible is a complete modern-English translation produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. It was dedicated to the public domain on April 30, 2023 — no permission is needed to read, copy, quote, or memorize it.
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The King James Version is in the public domain in the United States — its copyright expired long ago. No permission is needed to read, copy, or quote it.
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The publisher’s notice arrives with the text itself. Open a chapter in NKJV — or come back online — and it will appear here.
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The publisher’s notice arrives with the text itself. Open a chapter in NIV — or come back online — and it will appear here.
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Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Used here for non-commercial personal study.
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The publisher’s notice arrives with the text itself. Open a chapter in NLT — or come back online — and it will appear here.
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The World English Bible is in the public domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org. No permission is needed to read, copy, or quote it.
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The Majority Standard Bible, by the Berean Bible Translation Committee: the Berean Standard Bible’s Old Testament with the New Testament translated from the Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Majority Text. Dedicated to the public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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The Berean Literal Bible, produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, unfoldingWord, Bible Aquifer, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. Dedicated to the public domain. Its translators describe it as an early draft that will be updated. From LiteralBible.com.
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Bible in Basic English (Cambridge Press, 1965). Public domain in the United States. No permission is needed to read, copy, or quote it.
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American Standard Version, first published in 1901. Public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible, by Robert Young (1898 edition). Public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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The Holy Scriptures, a New Translation from the Original Languages, by J. N. Darby. Public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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The Webster Bible, translated by Noah Webster (1833). Public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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The Geneva Bible, 1599 edition. Public domain. Text from eBible.org, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API.
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Not public domain — licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Shared here under that licence, which requires attribution and share-alike.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
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Public domain, marked CC PD Mark 1.0. No permission is needed to read or quote it.
CC PD Mark 1.0Cross references — the OpenBible.info cross-reference set, licensed under CC BY 4.0, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API (adapted to its format). openbible.info · CC BY 4.0
Barnes, Spurgeon, Wesley and Burkitt — public-domain commentaries from the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD modules (each marked Public Domain), converted to Whetstone’s chapter format. crosswire.org
People, places & events — Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API. theographic-bible-metadata
Daily devotionals — C. H. Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening (first published as Morning by Morning, 1865, and Evening by Evening, 1868) and Daily Light on the Daily Path, compiled by Jonathan Bagster (1813–1872) and his family and published about 1875: public domain, from the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD modules.
Character profiles — 124 profiles from the Tyndale Open Study Notes, copyright © 2022 Tyndale House Publishers, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (tyndaleopenresources.com).
Maps — Natural Earth (public domain), drawn by Whetstone; place coordinates from Theographic.
Bible dictionary & topics — the Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary, copyright © 2023 Tyndale House Publishers, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (tyndaleopenresources.com); and Easton’s (1897), Smith’s (1884 edition), the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915, revised 1929), the American Tract Society Bible Dictionary (about 1859), Nave’s Topical Bible (1896–97), Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), Thompson Chain Topics (1934 edition, whose copyright was not renewed) and Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869): public domain, from the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD modules (each marked Public Domain).
Greek & Hebrew words — the Berean Interlinear Bible and BSB translation tables, dedicated to the public domain (CC0) by the Berean Bible translation committee. berean.bible
Lexicons — STEPBible.org brief lexicons of extended Strong’s numbers (Tyndale House, Cambridge; Greek definitions from Abbott-Smith), licensed under CC BY 4.0. stepbible.org
Strong’s dictionaries — James Strong, 1894 (public domain); JSON edition by Open Scriptures, licensed under CC BY-SA. openscriptures/strongs
Berean Standard Bible — readings by Bob Souer, Barry Hays, and Jordan Gilbert, dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0). Served by the HelloAO Free Use Bible API. A fourth complete reading, listed as “David,” is published with them by OpenBible.com; its reader's full name isn't given there.
World English Bible — read by David Williams, recorded 2000, placed in the public domain by the narrator in 2016.
King James Version and Bible in Basic English — computer voices recorded by PublicDomainAudioBibles.com and BasicEnglishAudioBible.com with a licensed text-to-speech engine and placed in the public domain (2018–2019). For the Indian and Australian accent recordings, the source states they can be used without restriction in the United States.
The WEB, KJV, and BBE recordings are hosted on the Internet Archive.
English Standard Version — Crossway's recording, read by David Cochran Heath, streamed through the ESV API under its terms for non-commercial use. ESV audio © 2008 Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. It streams only: Crossway's terms don't allow saving it to a device. www.esv.org
Today's devotional audio — Crossway's free podcast “Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon,” read by Frazer Blaxland, from the edition revised by Alistair Begg. Played from Crossway's public podcast feed.
NIV, NKJV, NLT, Geneva, and human-read KJV — these recordings play on Bible Gateway's own free site; Whetstone only links to them. Their licences don't permit Whetstone to play them, or a computer voice in their place.