Deep Dive Bible’s free data to download and reuse: the Bible texts, commentaries, and reference works that are in the public domain or freely licensed, and the cross-references, links, and other data made for the site. Each file is a zip holding the data as JSON and as CSV, with a README giving its license and credit.

The site’s software, Chatiferous, is free software too: its code is on GitLab.

Data that starts here

This is the original source of these data sets, made for Deep Dive Bible by AI agents (Claude, by Anthropic) at Larry Sanger’s direction:

• The Curated Best-Of
  The best one to three comments on each verse from about thirty public-domain commentaries, chosen, summarized, and credited.
• Name and theme links
  The names linked in each translation, with their other spellings, and the theme links.
• Map pins
  Where each place sits on each of the site’s maps.
• Ussher’s dates
  The date of each passage on Archbishop Ussher’s chronology.
• The Septuagint and Targums, renumbered
  The Greek Septuagint, Brenton’s English Septuagint, and the Targums put into the KJV’s verse numbering.
• Reference-work verse links
  Which articles in the reference works speak of which verses.
• Two corrected reference texts
  A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (Sanford) and Charles’s Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, corrected.
• UBS parallel passages
  The United Bible Societies’ parallel passages in English verse numbering.
• Thompson’s chain references
  Thompson’s chain references (1934) as links from verse to verse.

Licenses

What was made here is under CC BY-SA 4.0: use it for anything, crediting Deep Dive Bible, and share what you make from it under the same license. The Curated Best-Of is under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: the same, but not for commercial use. The old texts are in the public domain, and the rest are under their makers’ licenses; where a file holds parts under different licenses, each part’s is named.

Not here: translations still under copyright (the NIV, NKJV, NASB, and ESV), and the groups’ own discussions and notes.

The Bible texts

Each verse with its book, chapter, and verse number. Book codes are the three-letter ones of USFM (GEN, EXO, … REV).

• King James Version, with the Apocrypha. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  King James Version, with the Apocrypha. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• World English Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  World English Bible. Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Berean Standard Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Berean Standard Bible (berean.bible). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Young’s Literal Translation. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Young’s Literal Translation (1898). Public domain. From eBible.org.
• Literal Standard Version. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Literal Standard Version © 2020 Covenant Press, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. From eBible.org.
• The Hebrew Old Testament (Leningrad codex). Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY 4.0.
  Hebrew text (Leningrad codex) from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• The Greek Bible: the Septuagint and the Textus Receptus. Not yet ready.
  License: the Septuagint: Public domain; the Textus Receptus: CC BY 4.0; the alignment: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Old Testament: the Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek text (public domain), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS. New Testament: the Textus Receptus (Scrivener 1894) from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0, checked against Dr. Maurice Robinson’s public-domain Scrivener text.
• Brenton’s Septuagint in English (1851). Not yet ready.
  License: the texts: Public domain; the alignment: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Sir Lancelot Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851, public domain), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• The Targums in Aramaic. Not yet ready.
  License: the texts: Public domain; the alignment: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The Targums in Aramaic (Onkelos; Jonathan on the Prophets; the Targums of the Writings and of Chronicles), public domain, from Sefaria (toratemetfreeware, Mikraot Gedolot, Wikisource), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• Targum Pseudo-Jonathan in Aramaic. Not yet ready.
  License: the texts: Public domain; the alignment: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Targum Pseudo-Jonathan in Aramaic, public domain, from Sefaria, in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• The Targums in English (all but the Song of Songs). Not yet ready.
  License: the texts: Public domain; Jonah: CC0 1.0; the alignment: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The Targums in English. Onkelos: J. W. Etheridge, 1862 (public domain, eBible.org). Isaiah: C. W. H. Pauli, The Chaldee Paraphrase on the Prophet Isaiah, 1871 (public domain, from Sefaria; 9:6 from the Internet Archive’s scan). Jonah: Sefaria community translation (CC0). Nahum: F. J. Gurney, C. E. Crandall and O. O. Fletcher, The Hebrew Student, 1882 (public domain). In KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Deuteronomy in English: J. W. Etheridge, 1862 (public domain, from Sefaria), in KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).
• The Targum of the Song of Songs in English (no commercial use). Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
  The Targum of the Song of Songs in English: Jay Treat, CC BY-NC-SA. In KJV numbering by STEP Bible’s TVTMS (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0).

Commentaries

Each comment as HTML, with the book, chapter, and verses it is on. The group’s own notes are not here.

• The Curated Best-Of. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
  The Curated Best-Of, Deep Dive Bible (deepdivebible.org): the best one to three comments on each verse from about thirty public-domain commentaries, chosen, summarized, and credited by AI agents (Claude, by Anthropic) at Larry Sanger’s direction.
• Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1708–10). Public domain.
• Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Bible (1708–10). Public domain.
• Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834–85). Public domain.
• Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory (1871). Public domain.
• John Gill, Exposition of the Whole Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  John Gill, Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–63). Public domain.
• Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible (1810–26). Public domain.
• Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible (1683–85). Public domain.
• John Calvin, Commentaries. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  John Calvin, Commentaries (1540–65). Public domain.
• John Wesley, Explanatory Notes. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  John Wesley, Explanatory Notes (1754–65). Public domain.
• Spence and Exell, The Pulpit Commentary. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Spence and Exell, The Pulpit Commentary (1880–97). Public domain.
• Charles John Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Charles John Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers (1878–89). Public domain.
• J. J. S. Perowne (ed.), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  J. J. S. Perowne (ed.), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1882–1922). Public domain.
• W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), The Expositor's Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), The Expositor's Bible (1887–96). Public domain.
• Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–18). Public domain.
• John Peter Lange, Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  John Peter Lange, Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (1857–84). Public domain.
• George Leo Haydock, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  George Leo Haydock, Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary (1811). Public domain.
• Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture (1904–10). Public domain.
• William Kelly, Lectures and Notes. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  William Kelly, Lectures and Notes (1860–1900). Public domain.
• Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–75). Public domain.
• C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  C. H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (1869–85). Public domain.
• Johann Albrecht Bengel, Gnomon of the New Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Johann Albrecht Bengel, Gnomon of the New Testament (1742). Public domain.
• Henry Alford, The Greek Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Henry Alford, The Greek Testament (1849–61). Public domain.
• Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament (1887). Public domain.
• W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), The Expositor's Greek Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  W. Robertson Nicoll (ed.), The Expositor's Greek Testament (1897–1910). Public domain.
• H. A. W. Meyer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  H. A. W. Meyer, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (1832–59). Public domain.
• B. W. Johnson, The People's New Testament. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  B. W. Johnson, The People's New Testament (1891). Public domain.
• John Chrysostom, Homilies. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  John Chrysostom, Homilies (c. 390). Public domain.
• Charles Hodge, Commentaries on Romans, 1 Corinthians and Ephesians. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Charles Hodge, Commentaries on Romans, 1 Corinthians and Ephesians (1835–64). Public domain.
• Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea, tr. J. H. Newman, 1842. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea, tr. J. H. Newman, 1842 (1842). Public domain.
• Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–24). Public domain.
• The International Critical Commentary (old series). Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  The International Critical Commentary (old series) (1895–1928). Public domain.

Reference works

Each article, with the verses it speaks of. The works marked ZWI come as ZWI files, one per article (the Encyclosphere’s open format for encyclopedia articles), with the verse links beside them. About ZWI files.

• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: links to 1, 2, and 3 John that our source pointed at the Gospel of John corrected; our source’s section marks set as headings.
• A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain in the USA; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in the USA. Text from Oldpedia. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: articles our source ran together split apart; false headings joined back to their articles; duplicate articles merged; stray text from the page edges left out.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The Jewish Encyclopedia, Isidore Singer, ed. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1901–1906). Public domain. Text as published by jewishencyclopedia.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: spaces our source lost restored; 1,663 entries missing from our source added, most of them one-line cross-references, read from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes (804 are still missing); titles set in the printed book’s capitals.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Charles G. Herbermann et al., eds. (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907–1914). Public domain. Text as transcribed by Wikisource. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: markup our source’s transcribers left unfinished completed; headings printed in capitals set in capitals and small letters; our source’s own headers and notes left out.
• McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, John McClintock and James Strong (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887). Public domain. Text from SwordSearcher’s module, as published by biblicalcyclopedia.com. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: titles misread in our source corrected from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes; paragraphs our source broke mid-sentence joined.
• Easton’s Bible Dictionary (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Easton’s Bible Dictionary, M. G. Easton (London: T. Nelson, 1897). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Smith’s Bible Dictionary (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith, revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet (1884). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words our source left outside its paragraphs put back in them.
• Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary, Roswell D. Hitchcock, from An Interpreting Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names (New York, 1869). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: CC BY-SA 4.0; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary. The original work by Tyndale House Publishers is available for free at http://www.tyndaleopenresources.com. Copyright © 2023 by Tyndale House Publishers. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: text boxes and charts set into their articles; maps shown with the other maps instead of in the articles; section outlines, and pictures (not released with the text), left out.
• Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article.
• Nave’s Topical Bible. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  Nave’s Topical Bible, Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
• Thompson’s Chain References. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The New Chain-Reference Bible, Frank Charles Thompson (Indianapolis: B. B. Kirkbride, 1934). Public domain: the 1934 edition’s copyright was not renewed, and the 1929 edition’s, renewed in 1957, ran out at the end of 2024. Keyed by Paul Houghton for CrossWire’s TCR module. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: list headings our source lost written anew by AI (Claude, by Anthropic).
• Ellicott’s introductions. Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The introductions to the books in Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers, Charles John Ellicott, editor (London: Cassell, 1878–1884). Public domain. Text as published by Bible Hub. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: headings our source broke made whole; Ellicott’s general preface and his introductions to the Pentateuch, the New Testament, and the first three Gospels left out.
• Charles’s Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (ZWI). Not yet ready.
  License: the text: Public domain; the verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, R. H. Charles, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913). Public domain. Text from the scan on the Internet Archive (vol. II: this scan). Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words misread in the scan’s first reading corrected by reading the pages again and comparing the readings; Greek and Hebrew read from the page images.

Cross-references and other links

• Cross-references from OpenBible.info. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY 4.0.
  Cross-references from OpenBible.info (www.openbible.info/labs/cross-references/), CC BY 4.0, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; with their votes.
• The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (about 1880). Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (about 1880), public domain, from CrossWire’s SWORD module (crosswire.org).
• The United Bible Societies’ parallel passages, in English verse numbers. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  UBS Parallel Passages, © 2023 United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 (github.com/ubsicap/ubs-open-license); put into the English verse numbers with STEPBible’s TAHOT.
• Thompson’s chain references, verse to verse. Not yet ready.
  License: the chains: Public domain; the verse-to-verse links: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The chains of Frank Charles Thompson’s New Chain-Reference Bible (1934, public domain), each verse linked to the first and next stops of every chain through it.
• The names linked in each translation. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The names the reference works have articles on, and the words naming them in the WEB, BSB, YLT, and LSV; made from STEPBible’s TIPNR (Translators Individualised Proper Names), www.STEPBible.org, from Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• The theme links in each translation. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The themes of the topical Bibles, where each is in the KJV, and the words for them in the WEB, BSB, YLT, and LSV.
• The map pins: each place on each map. Not yet ready.
  License: the pins: CC BY-SA 4.0; the places’ coordinates: CC BY 4.0.
  Where each place sits on each of the site’s maps, in the map picture’s pixels, with each place’s names, coordinates, and verses. Coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data (www.openbible.info/geo/), CC BY 4.0. The map pictures are not here; they come from Biblica’s Open Bible Maps, G. A. Smith’s and Hurlbut’s atlases, and the Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary (see the credits page).
• The date of each passage on Ussher’s chronology. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  The years (negative for BC) of each passage, from the dates in the margins of Bibles printed on Archbishop James Ussher’s chronology (1650, public domain).

Lexicons and the original languages

• Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew lexicon. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), by Brown, Driver, and Briggs; public domain; by Strong’s number.
• Thayer’s Greek lexicon. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  Joseph Henry Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain; by Strong’s number.
• STEPBible’s short lexicon entries. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY 4.0.
  Short entries and Abbott-Smith from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Thayer (1889) are public domain. Concordance from the KJV with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org).
• The Hebrew words of each verse. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY 4.0.
  Each word with its transliteration, gloss, Strong’s number, and grammar, from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• The Greek words of each verse. Not yet ready.
  License: CC BY 4.0.
  Each word with its transliteration, gloss, Strong’s number, and grammar, from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0.
• The KJV’s Strong’s numbers. Not yet ready.
  License: Public domain.
  The KJV’s words tagged with Strong’s numbers, from eBible.org (public domain).

The data API

For an app that needs a little at a time, the same data can be read as JSON one passage or verse at a time at /api/data.php:

• ?get=list: the translations, commentaries, cross-reference lists, and lexicons, with their licenses.
• ?get=passage&version=WEB&book=JHN&chapter=3&from=16&to=21: up to one chapter, at most 100 verses.
• ?get=commentary&work=mhc&book=JHN&chapter=3&verse=16: what a commentary says on a verse.
• ?get=xrefs&list=tsk&book=JHN&chapter=3&verse=16: a verse’s cross-references (lists ob, tsk, ubs, and tcr).
• ?get=lexicon&strongs=G26: a Strong’s number’s lexicon entries.

The rules: add &app= and your app’s name to every request (no email address is needed); credit Deep Dive Bible and each work’s source, as each answer gives them; for more than a little, use the downloads. At most 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day, and one at a time from an address; past that, the answer is “429 Too Many Requests” with the seconds to wait, and an address that keeps going is blocked for 24 hours. Addresses are kept only scrambled, to count requests, and deleted after two days. The limits may change, and the API may be withdrawn, especially before we make any necessary adjustments to our hosting.

Recordings

The site’s recordings of the Bible read aloud will be offered here too.