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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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.
The two King James Version reading Bibles, one with the 66 books and one that adds the 14 books of the Apocrypha (every book and chapter, with its footnotes), come 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.
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.
Young’s Literal Translation, by Robert Young (every book and chapter, with its footnotes) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/engylt. It is in the public domain. Open Scroll has changed its format to fit these pages.
The Catholic Douay-Rheims reading Bible (73 books, every chapter) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/engDRA. It was translated from the Latin Vulgate. It is in the public domain. Open Scroll shows its words, book order and Psalm numbers as printed. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages. Strong's numbers in the source are not shown.
The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1917 (every book and chapter) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/engjps. It is in the public domain. Open Scroll shows its words and its bracketed Hebrew verse numbers as printed, in the book order of the 1917 printing. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages.
The Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) reading Bible (52 books, every chapter, with its footnotes) comes from eBible.org: ebible.org/eng-Brenton. It is Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton’s English translation of the Greek Septuagint, published in 1851, and it is in the public domain. Open Scroll shows its words, book names, book order and Psalm numbers as printed. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages. Cross references in the source are not shown. The source also has a second, differently typed copy of Nehemiah; Open Scroll uses the one printed as part of Ezra and Nehemiah.
The 1 Enoch reading pages (108 chapters) come from Project Gutenberg, ebook 77935: gutenberg.org/ebooks/77935. It is R. H. Charles’s English translation, published in London by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1917. Project Gutenberg marks it public domain in the USA. Open Scroll shows Charles’s words, marks, headings and chapter order as printed. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages. The introduction and front matter are not shown.
The Jubilees reading pages (50 chapters) come from the Internet Sacred Text Archive: sacred-texts.com/bib/jub. It is R. H. Charles’s English translation, with an introduction by G. H. Box, published in London by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1917. The archive scanned it in July 2004 (John Bruno Hare, redactor) and marks it public domain in the USA. Its notice: “These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.” Open Scroll shows Charles’s words, marks, headings and margin dates as printed. Only the layout is changed to fit these pages. Twenty printing slips in the online copy are put right: fifteen verse or chapter numbers misread in the scan, and five slips in the headings, such as “Gain” for Cain. Box’s introduction and footnotes are not shown.
Qumran Cave 4: photograph by Marco Prins, Livius.org, marked CC0 1.0 Universal (free to use): livius.org. The Great Isaiah Scroll (Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Shrine of the Book): photograph from Google Arts & Culture, by way of Wikimedia Commons, which marks it PD-Art, a faithful photograph of a public-domain work, public domain in the United States: commons.wikimedia.org. Open Scroll shows part of it, made smaller. Dead Sea Scroll jar and lid (Qumran Cave 1; object 64.26a, b, gift of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1964): photograph by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, marked Public Domain under The Met’s Open Access program, free to use without permission or fee: metmuseum.org. The page’s ink drawing of the cave is Open Scroll’s own, drawn from the Cave 4 photograph. Scroll pictures from the Israel Antiquities Authority’s digital library are not used: its terms allow only single copies for private use.
The Hebrew text on the Old Testament cards. The Westminster Leningrad Codex text is in the public domain.
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.
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.
Credit: STEP Bible
Hebrew and Greek word data. Created by Tyndale House, Cambridge, and now curated by STEPBible.org.
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/
© 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc.
Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software.
Source: github.com/Faithlife/SBLGNT
© 2026 crossreferences.org. Dataset: Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
The related verses listed under each verse.
Source: crossreferences.org
The meanings on the word cards come from these dictionaries. In the entries for God’s name, Open Scroll writes the forms Yahweh and Jehovah as YHWH. Every such change is recorded, with the dictionary’s own wording kept.
By Francis Brown, S. R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs. The Hebrew meanings and the longer entries in the scroll box. Taken from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon, shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
By G. Abbott-Smith (1922). The longer Greek entries in the scroll box. Marked-up text by the Abbott-Smith project, release 1.1. The project states the lexicon and its marked-up version are in the public domain.
Source: github.com/translatable-exegetical-tools/Abbott-Smith
By John Jeffrey Dodson. The short Greek explanations on the cards. Dedicated to the public domain under CC0.
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.
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
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, © 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
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
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
The line under each Hebrew and Greek word that shows how to say it was written for Open Scroll.
The fourteen pictures on the Seeing the Bible page were drawn by Open Scroll’s own small programs from the sources below. Each program counts what is in its source and writes a report; it does not change the source.
Original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb
The Hebrew text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex with a dictionary tag on every word, and its table of Hebrew and English verse numbers. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Used for: Every Word a Grain, The Name as Light, The Name in the Reading Bibles, Four Words, Words Found Only Once, The Year of Portions, and the size ring on Every Greek Word a Grain. The word meanings named on Four Words were checked against the Strong’s dictionary in the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (Part III).
To the extent possible under law, biblicalhumanities.org has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the biblicalhumanities.org Nestle 1904 Morphology.
Dedicated to the public domain under CC0. Used for: Every Greek Word a Grain. The text itself is listed in Part IV.
www.openbible.info CC-BY 2024-11-04
344,799 links between verses, with readers’ votes. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, as the file’s own header line says. Used for: Threads of Scripture, The Bridge, and Book Meets Book. Open Scroll used the copy in the scrollmapper Bible Databases project (MIT License, copyright 2024 Scrollmapper).
The places named in the Bible, the locations scholars have proposed for each one, and a confidence score for each location. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Used for: Places of Scripture.
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.
The coastline and lakes on Places of Scripture. “All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain.”
Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0)
Every person named in the Bible, told apart one from another, with every verse that names each one. Used for: People of Scripture. Open Scroll does not pass this file on; it is read from STEPBible’s own source, as STEPBible asks.
Copyright (c) 2020, hebcal. All rights reserved. BSD 2-Clause License.
The names and verse ranges of the 54 weekly Torah portions. Used for: The Year of Portions. The license allows reuse as long as its copyright notice is kept with the data.
Source: github.com/hebcal/hebcal-leyning
All of these Bible texts are in the public domain. The files they came in are named here.
The titles and section names on the pictures are set in the DejaVu Sans typeface. Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc. DejaVu changes are in public domain. Free to use under the Bitstream Vera font license.
Source: dejavu-fonts.github.io
Full licenses: CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0
With gratitude to YHWH (God) and Yeshua (Jesus) for mercy, grace, and daily guidance, and for the opportunity to help share the Word in ways that may encourage deeper learning and growth in faith.
Special thanks to my chaplain teacher, Rich, who always taught me to study each word closely, and to the incarcerated men whose desire to know the Scriptures more deeply and grow closer to the Father and Yeshua (Jesus) helped inspire this project.
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