Bible Sources, Credits & Licenses

Open Scroll is built from work that others made and shared freely. This page names each source and the terms it is shared under.

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Part I

The Bible text

American Standard Version (1901)

The blue verse boxes and the English on each card come from the American Standard Version, published in 1901. So does the American Standard Version reading Bible (every book and chapter, with its footnotes). The American Standard Version text is in the public domain.

The reading Bible text comes from the American Standard Version Bible project by OpenBible.info: github.com/openbibleinfo/American-Standard-Version-Bible. Open Scroll has changed its format to fit these pages.

King James Version (1769 text)

The King James Version reading Bible (every book and chapter, with its footnotes) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/eng-kjv. eBible.org marks it public domain outside the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, the right to print it belongs to the Crown. Open Scroll has changed its format to fit these pages. Strong's numbers in the source are not shown.

World Messianic Bible

The World Messianic Bible reading Bible (every book and chapter, with its footnotes) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/engwmb. The World Messianic Bible is not copyrighted. It has been dedicated to the public domain. Open Scroll shows its words unchanged. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages. Strong's numbers and cross references in the source are not shown.

Westminster Leningrad Codex

The Hebrew text on the Old Testament cards. The Westminster Leningrad Codex text is in the public domain.

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Part II

Word data

Every source in this part is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Open Scroll has changed the format of this material to fit its pages and word cards.

Word-by-word links between the English and the Hebrew and Greek

This work contains public-domain American Standard Version and Westminster Leningrad Codex biblical text. Its original-language alignments are derived from the MACULA Greek and MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets (© 2022–2024 Biblica, Inc.), the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible project, the SBL Greek New Testament (© 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software), and J. J. McCollum’s SBLGNT-TEI transcription and apparatus encoding. Hebrew syntax fields include data from the Westminster Hebrew Syntax without Morphology (© 1991–2018 J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research). Gloss data includes the public-domain Berean Interlinear Bible and Cherith glosses by Andi Wu (© 2022–2023 Cherith Analytics). Licensed source data is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Source fields were selected, normalized, segmented, and restructured.

STEP Bible

Credit: STEP Bible

Hebrew and Greek word data. Created by Tyndale House, Cambridge, and now curated by STEPBible.org.

Source: github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/

© 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc.

SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)

Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.

Source: github.com/Faithlife/SBLGNT

Related verses

© 2026 crossreferences.org. Dataset: Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The related verses listed under each verse.

Source: crossreferences.org

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Part III

Other sources in the data

Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament

Edited by Eberhard Nestle, published in 1904 by the British and Foreign Bible Society. Transcription by Diego Santos, morphology by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen, markup by Jonathan Robie.

Its parts are shared under different terms. Each part’s terms are given in the source.

Source: github.com/biblicalhumanities/Nestle1904

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Part IV

Maps

The two Biblica map sources in this part are shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0): creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0

Biblica® Open Color Bible Maps™, English

Biblica® Open Color Bible Maps™, English
Copyright © 2019 by Biblica, Inc.
“Biblica” is a trademark registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc. Used with permission.

Biblica Open Bible Maps

Biblica Open Bible Maps, © 2023-2026 Biblica, Inc. This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Authors: Biblica Open Bible Maps Team.

Found through: bibleimagelibrary.org

Bible Atlas (1910)

By Jesse Lyman Hurlbut. Published in Chicago by Rand, McNally & Company, 1910. In the public domain in the United States. The old color maps.

Catalog record: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007707042

Bible Atlas (Non-Sectarian): Physical-Historical (1912)

By Townsend MacCoun. Published in New York by L. L. Poates, 1912. In the public domain in the United States. The black-and-white drawings.

Scanned copy: Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, on the Internet Archive: archive.org/details/bibleatlasnonsec00macc

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Part V

How to say the words

Say lines

The line under each Hebrew and Greek word that shows how to say it was written for Open Scroll.

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Part VI

What the licenses allow

  • Share. Anyone may copy and pass on the material in any form.
  • Adapt. Anyone may change it and build on it, for any purpose.
  • Give credit. Each source must be named in the way it asks, and changes must be shown.
  • No added limits. No one may add terms that stop others from doing what the license allows.
  • Share alike (maps only). A changed version of a map must be shared under the same license, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Full licenses: CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0

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