Sources and licenses

Psalms and Proverbs, read slowly

The author of this section recorded the texts it was checked against. The entries below are copied from that record.

The texts below are public domain or openly licensed for academic, research, and redistribution use, except that the King James Version is public domain only outside the UK (see its row).

Folder / file
bsb.txt
Text
Berean Standard Bible, full Bible, one verse per line (sha256 2ac3af1d…5ca96)
Source URL
https://bereanbible.com/bsb.txt
License
Public domain. The file header says: "This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain."
Folder / file
web/
Text
World English Bible (2020 stable text), USFM, full Bible with Strong's tags
Source URL
https://ebible.org/Scriptures/eng-web_usfm.zip
License
Public domain (web/copr.htm). "World English Bible" is a trademark; altered text may not use the name.
Folder / file
kjv/
Text
King James Version (1769 standardized text), USFM with Strong's numbers
Source URL
https://ebible.org/Scriptures/eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip
License
Public domain outside the UK (kjv/copr.htm). In the UK, Crown letters patent restrict printing.
Folder / file
ylt/
Text
Young's Literal Translation (1898), USFM
Source URL
https://ebible.org/Scriptures/engylt_usfm.zip
License
Public domain (ylt/copr.htm).
Folder / file
morphhb/
Text
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Westminster Leningrad Codex with lemma (Strong's) and morphology tags, OSIS XML (morphhb/wlc/Ps.xml, Prov.xml, etc.)
Source URL
https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb (git clone, commit db6c5c9b46b8f39346f10915ddb1a70dcd429901)
License
WLC text: public domain. OSHB lemma and morphology data: CC BY 4.0, credit "Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project" (morphhb/LICENSE.md).
Folder / file
tsv/
Text
Derived: one verse per line (chapter<TAB>verse<TAB>text) for Psalms and Proverbs in bsb, web, kjv, ylt, and heb (Hebrew with Strong's lemma in brackets)
Source URL
Generated by parse.py from the files above
License
Same license as each source. Hebrew TSVs carry OSHB CC BY 4.0 attribution.

Credit for the Hebrew data

The Hebrew notes rely on the Strong's number tags of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Its license file asks for this credit: “Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb”.

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