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Sources and credits

What Bible Compass builds on, with licences and credits.

Bible texts

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Public domain. Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Text via eBible.org.
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Dedicated to the public domain 2023-04-30 by the Berean Bible team.

King James Version (1769 standardized text) (KJV)
Public domain. King James Version, standardized 1769 text with Strong's numbers (eBible.org, public domain).
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Public domain outside the UK. In the UK a Crown letters patent applies to printing; verify if UK distribution matters.

World English Bible (WEB)
Public domain. World English Bible (WEB), public domain. Text via eBible.org.
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The name 'World English Bible' is a trademark; the text is public domain.

Åpen Bibel (ÅB)
CC0 1.0. Åpen Bibel (CC0), https://github.com/Ravatsaas/apen-bibel. Modernisation of the 1930 translation; only some chapters are modernised so far.
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Text released as CC0. Based on Det Norske Bibelselskap's 1930 translation, whose copyright the project states has expired; get this confirmed by a lawyer before launch. The NAME 'Åpen Bibel' may only be used for verbatim copies; modified text must be renamed.

Open Translation Bible (norsk bokmål) (OTB)
CC BY-SA 4.0. Open Translation Bible (OTB), norsk bokmål, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://openbible.uk. Reformatted to JSON by Bible Compass.
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Attribution required: credit OpenBible.uk / Open Translation Bible, link the licence, indicate changes. ShareAlike: adaptations of the TEXT (incl. our normalized JSON) must be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Tags, articles and code are separate works. Method of translation is not documented by the publisher; check quality before use as the main text.

American Standard Version (1901) (ASV)
Public domain. American Standard Version, 1901. Text via open-bibles (public domain).
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Published 1901.

Darby Bible (1890) (DARBY)
Public domain. Darby Bible, J. N. Darby, 1890. Text via open-bibles (public domain).
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J. N. Darby, 1890.

Bibelen 1930 (B1930)
Offentlig eiendom. Bibelen 1930, Det Norske Bibelselskap. Tekst via The Unbound Bible / open-bibles (offentlig eiendom).
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Bibelselskapet oppgir at oversettelsen har falt i det fri.

Berean Literal Bible (draft) (BLB)
Public domain. Berean Literal Bible (draft), Bible Hub and the Berean Bible Translation Committee (public domain). Words in [brackets] are supplied for readability.
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Dedicated to the public domain by the Berean Bible team. This is an early draft that is still being revised.

The texts have been reformatted to JSON (chapter, verse, text). The wording has not been changed.

Data and maps

Original text and verse numbering
STEPBible.org / Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0.
Cross references
OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, built on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
People, places, events
Theographic Bible Metadata, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not complete, and the Norwegian names are partly suggested automatically.
Maps
Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth (free). Place locations from Theographic and OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Paul's routes after Wilson (2009) and Thompson and Wilson (2016). The other routes are schematic.
Study notes
Tyndale Open Study Notes © 2023 Tyndale House Publishers, in the adaptation Aquifer Open Study Notes © 2026 Mission Mutual, CC BY-SA 4.0. English; shown unchanged. Our own data and texts that build on them are shared on the same terms.
Word study
STEPBible / Tyndale House, Cambridge: original-language text (TAHOT, TAGNT) and the brief lexicons TBESG (based on Abbott-Smith, public domain) and TBESH (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs), CC BY 4.0.
Old maps
George Adam Smith and J. G. Bartholomew, «Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land» (1915), public domain; scans from Wikimedia Commons.

Images

Landscape photos from Norway, licensed via Wikimedia Commons. The topic cards use crops of the same images.

AI tagging

Which topics a verse belongs to was suggested by a language model (Claude from Anthropic) following our rules, and has not yet been reviewed by a person. The Bible text itself is never written or changed by AI. The same goes for suggestions of Norwegian names, verse explanations, articles and English translations of our own texts: they are marked as AI drafts.

Fonts and software

The fonts Lora and Inter (SIL Open Font License) are on our own server. Icons from Lucide (ISC) and our own icons. Built with open source: React, TanStack, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix UI (MIT) and Supabase (Apache 2.0).