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With thanks

Building a free Bible app means hitting walls. Most modern translations, like the NIV, NASB and NLT, can't be included without a publisher's licence. Fourteen of our research pieces wait on their authors' permission. And some of the best scholarly data is free only for non-commercial use.

A few people opened their doors and asked for little more than credit. We give it gladly:

• STEPBible.org and Tyndale House, Cambridge: the Hebrew and Greek behind every verse, word by word, with its sound and meaning. Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge. CC BY 4.0

  www.STEPBible.orggithub.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Datacreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  What we changed

  • We keep only the root Strong's number for each Hebrew word; the prefix and suffix tags are dropped, and where one written word is read as two, we keep the first root.
  • Strong's numbers lose STEPBible's extra letters (H7225G becomes H7225, G5207_A becomes G5207).
  • We skip STEPBible's Ketiv footnote rows and the words it reconstructs from Greek sources.
  • Psalm titles are not shown, because the app's verses start at verse 1, and neither are the words of Acts 8:37, 15:34, 24:7 and Luke 17:36, which this app's WEB text does not number.
  • A word shows no Strong's number when its tag is not in our dictionary: one of STEPBible's grammar codes, one of its newer numbers, or a compound Greek tag.
  • STEPBible numbers verses as the NRSV does; we place each word under this app's KJV-style verse numbers, and the word order follows those verses.

• OpenBible.info: 613,649 cross-references. CC BY

  www.openbible.info/labs/cross-referencescreativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

• Open Scriptures: the Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionary. CC BY-SA

  github.com/openscriptures/strongscreativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Their generosity is why you can study the original languages here, free. Thank you.

Also free for everyone:

• the World English Bible, King James Version, American Standard Version, Darby and Young's Literal Translation (public domain);
• the Clarke, Henry and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown commentaries, via HelloAO (public domain); bible.helloao.org
• the Literata typeface (SIL Open Font Licence). openfontlicense.org