Everything in the library is free to use. The old works are in the public domain; the modern datasets are shared under Creative Commons licences, which ask us to say where they come from. Thank you to everyone who made them.
Public domain
- Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (1706) and C. H. Spurgeon’s Treasury of David (1869–85), from the CrossWire Bible Society’s SWORD modules.
- Nave’s Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1896), from the CrossWire SWORD module.
- Easton’s Bible Dictionary (M. G. Easton, 1897).
- Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869), via BibleData by Brady Stephenson (CC BY 4.0).
- The creeds, confessions and catechisms, from the Creeds.json project (only the texts it marks as public domain).
- The Gospel harmony is built from the section headings of the Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- The map is drawn from Natural Earth (public domain), with no modern borders.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- People, places, events and the Easton’s text: Theographic Bible Metadata by Robert Rouse (theographic.com), github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata. Locations draw on the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (CC BY 4.0).
- Parallel passages and the Old Testament in the New: UBS Parallel Passage Database, © 2023 United Bible Societies.
- Journeys: UBS Project MARBLE Bible Routes by Dr Leen Ritmeyer, © United Bible Societies 2023.
We have reshaped these datasets (for example, merging them into one file and linking references). Our adapted versions of the CC BY-SA data, in static/bibles/library.sqlite, are shared under the same licence: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.