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Bible: XML and JSON

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"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." — Matthew 24:14 (KJV)

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Clean, per-verse structured JSON and XML — no HTML, no markup noise, no scraping artifacts. The same canonical book abbreviations are used across every language and version, so verses align out of the box for embeddings, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, and cross-lingual alignment tasks. MIT-licensed code with permissively-sourced text, ready to feed straight into a dataset or a context window.

Do you want to create a Bible based app? What about an API for Bible verses search? Now you can do this, using sources in your very own language! The main objective of this project is to allow people to create Bible related apps using XML and JSON. Do you like this idea? Help us to go even further. Support this project! :)

How were the files built?

The source files were generated using a Python based crawler. Therefore, these files may contain minor issues related to encoding and syntax.

Which languages and versions are covered by the project?

Language	Version	Files	Notes
🇿🇦 Afrikaans	Afrikaans 1933/1953	af_afr53
🇬🇭 Akan	Akuapem Twi Contemporary Bible	ak_wakna
🇦🇱 Albanian	Bibla Shqip 1994	sq_albb
🇬🇷 Ancient Greek	Textus Receptus (Η Καινή Διαθήκη)	grc_grctr	New Testament only (27 books)
🇬🇷 Ancient Greek	Septuagint, Brenton (μετάφραση των εβδομήκοντα)	grc_grcbrent	Old Testament only (36 books), Greek Septuagint; Proverbs 30 is empty in this edition's numbering; Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇸🇦 Arabic	Ketab El Hayat Majani	ar_kehm
🇦🇲 Armenian	Նոր Էջմիածին Աստվածաշունչ (New Etchmiadzin Bible)	hy_neb	Incomplete, 64 of 66 books (Esther and Daniel missing); Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇮🇳 Assamese	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Assamese 2019	as_irvasm
🇪🇸 Basque	Navarro-Labourdin Basque Bible	eu_bhnt
🇧🇾 Belarusian	Bíblia (tradução de V. Semukha)	be_bbl
🇧🇩 Bengali	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Bengali	bn_irvben
🇻🇺 Bislama	Open Bislama Bible Revised	bi_obbr
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Revisada Imprensa Bíblica	pt_aa
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Corrigida e Revisada Fiel	pt_acf
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Revista e Atualizada	pt_ara
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Revista e Corrigida	pt_arc
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Revista e Corrigida 1969	pt_rc69
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Almeida Século 21	pt_a21
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Bíblia para Todos	pt_bpt09
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Bíblia Sagrada Ave-Maria	pt_avm	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Bíblia Sagrada: Versão Fácil de Ler	pt_vfl
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Edição Pastoral	pt_pastoral	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	King James Atualizada	pt_kja
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	King James Fiel	pt_bkj
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Almeida Atualizada	pt_naa
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Bíblia Viva 2007	pt_nbv
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Tradução na Linguagem de Hoje	pt_ntlh
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Versão Internacional	pt_nvi
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Versão Internacional 2011	pt_nvi2011
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Nova Versão Transformadora	pt_nvt
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	O Livro	pt_ol
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Tradução Brasileira	pt_tb
🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese	Tradução do Pe. Matos Soares	pt_matos	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇧🇬 Bulgarian	Veren	bg_vbg
🇲🇲 Burmese	Judson Bible	my_jbmle
🇦🇩 Catalan	Bíblia Catalana Interconfessional	ca_bci	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇵🇭 Cebuano	Ang Pulong sa Dios	ceb_oapd
🇮🇶 Central Kurdish	Kurdi Sorani Standard Version	ckb_okss
🇨🇳 Chinese	Chinese Union Version (New Punctuation, Shen Edition)	zh_cunpss-shen
🇨🇳 Chinese	New Chinese Version	zh_cnvs
🇭🇷 Croatian	Knjiga o Kristu	hr_okok	New Testament only (27 books)
🇨🇿 Czech	Bible Kralická 1613	cs_bkr
🇳🇱 Dutch	De Heilige Schrift, Petrus Canisiusvertaling, 1939	nl_nld1939	Incomplete, 64 of 66 books (Esther and Daniel missing)
🇬🇧 English	American Standard Version 1901	en_asv
🇬🇧 English	Amplified Bible	en_amp
🇬🇧 English	Basic English	en_bbe
🇬🇧 English	Berean Standard Bible	en_bsb
🇬🇧 English	Christian Standard Bible	en_csb
🇬🇧 English	Contemporary English Version	en_cev
🇬🇧 English	Darby's Translation 1890	en_darby
🇬🇧 English	Douay-Rheims American 1899	en_dra
🇬🇧 English	English Standard Version	en_esv
🇬🇧 English	Free Bible Version	en_fbv
🇬🇧 English	Geneva Bible	en_gnv
🇬🇧 English	Good News Translation	en_gnt
🇬🇧 English	Jubilee Bible	en_jub
🇬🇧 English	King James Version	en_kjv
🇬🇧 English	King James Version with Apocrypha	en_kjva	80 books: the 66 canonical books plus the 14 that the source lists under "Outros", placed after Revelation. See the note below
🇬🇧 English	Lexham English Bible	en_leb
🇬🇧 English	Literal Standard Version	en_lsv
🇬🇧 English	Majority Standard Bible	en_mbsb
🇬🇧 English	New American Standard Bible 2020	en_nasb
🇬🇧 English	New International Version	en_niv
🇬🇧 English	New King James Version	en_nkjv
🇬🇧 English	New Living Translation	en_nlt
🇬🇧 English	New Messianic Version Bible	en_nmv
🇬🇧 English	Revised Version 1885	en_engrv
🇬🇧 English	The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version	en_kjvcpb
🇬🇧 English	The Orthodox Jewish Bible	en_tojb2011	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇬🇧 English	A Translation for Translators	en_t4t
🇬🇧 English	World English Bible (American Edition)	en_web
🇬🇧 English	World English Bible Updated	en_webu
🇬🇧 English	World English Bible (British Edition)	en_webbe
🇬🇧 English	World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's numbers	en_webus
🇬🇧 English	World Messianic Bible (American English)	en_wmb
🇬🇧 English	World Messianic Bible (British Edition)	en_wmbbe
🇬🇧 English	Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling	en_wbms
🇬🇧 English	Young's Literal Translation 1898	en_ylt98
🌍 Esperanto	La Sankta Biblio 1926	eo_esp
🇪🇪 Estonian	Vaba kasutusega Uus Testament, Pühakiri kaasaegses eesti keeles	et_opkek	New Testament only (27 books)
🇬🇭 Ewe	Ewe Contemporary Scriptures	ee_oal
🇵🇭 Filipino	Ang Biblia 1905	tl_abtag
🇫🇮 Finnish	Kirkkoraamattu 1933/38	fi_fb38
🇫🇷 French	Le Bible de I'Épée	fr_apee
🇩🇪 German	Schlachter 1951	de_sch1951
🇬🇷 Greek	Modern Greek (Demotic)	el_fpb
🇮🇳 Gujarati	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Gujarati 2019	gu_irvguj
🇭🇹 Haitian Creole	Bib Sen An: Kreyòl Ayisyen	ht_bsa
🇳🇬 Hausa	Hausa Contemporary Bible	ha_bsrk
🇮🇱 Hebrew	Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC)	he_wlc	Old Testament only (39 books), with vowel points and cantillation marks; Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇮🇳 Hindi	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Hindi 2019	hi_irvhin
🇭🇺 Hungarian	Károli 1908	hu_hunk
🇮🇸 Icelandic	Opna Lifandi Orð: Nýja testamentið og Sálmarnir	is_olo	New Testament and Psalms only (28 books)
🇳🇬 Igbo	Igbo Contemporary Bible	ig_biuo
🇮🇩 Indonesian	Alkitab Terjemahan Sederhana Indonesia, Edisi Ketiga (TSI)	id_tsi	Incomplete, 48 of 66 books (21 Old Testament books and the full New Testament)
🇮🇹 Italian	Sacra Bibbia Versione Riveduta 2020	it_irb20
🇯🇵 Japanese	聖書 新共同訳 (Shinkyodoyaku)	ja_jniv	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇮🇳 Kannada	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Kannada 2019	kn_irvkan
🇰🇿 Kazakh	Киелі кітап	kk_qazbi
🇰🇪 Kikuyu	Kiugo Gĩtheru Kĩa Ngai Kĩhingũre	ki_kgnk
🇷🇼 Kinyarwanda	Rufumbira New Testament	rw_ruf	New Testament only (27 books)
🇧🇮 Kirundi	Kirundi Contemporary Bible	rn_obkc
🇰🇷 Korean	Korean Revised	ko_krv
🇻🇦 Latin	Vulgata Latina	la_vulg
🇱🇻 Latvian	Glika Bībele	lv_lg8
🇨🇩 Lingala	Lingala Contemporary Bible	ln_smnb	Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇺🇬 Luganda	Bayibuli Entukuvu	lg_olcb
🇲🇾 Malay	Alkitab Berita Baik	ms_tmvr
🇮🇳 Malayalam	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Malayalam	ml_irvmal
🇳🇿 Maori	Paipera Tapu 2012	mi_mri2012
🇮🇳 Marathi	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Marathi	mr_irvmar
🇳🇵 Nepali	Open Nepali Contemporary Version	ne_oncv
🇿🇼 Northern Ndebele	Ndebele Contemporary Bible	nd_oben
🇳🇴 Norwegian (Bokmål)	Bibel 2011	nb_bibel2011
🇲🇼 Nyanja	Chichewa Contemporary Version	ny_tccl
🇮🇳 Odia	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Odia	or_irvory
🇪🇹 Oromo	New Oromo Contemporary Version	om_onocv
🇮🇷 Persian	Persian Contemporary Bible 2022	fa_opcb
🇵🇱 Polish	Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska	pl_ubg
🇮🇳 Punjabi	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Punjabi	pa_irvpun
🇷🇴 Romanian	Versiunea Dumitru Cornilescu	ro_vdc
🇷🇺 Russian	Синодальный перевод (Synodal Translation)	ru_synod	Incomplete, 64 of 66 books (Esther and Daniel missing) — see json/ru_synod.disclaimer.txt
🇮🇳 Sanskrit	Sanskrit Bible (सत्यवेदः)	sa_san-dn	New Testament only (27 books), in Devanagari script
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Gaelic	Am Bìoball Gàidhlig 1992	gd_abg1992
🇷🇸 Serbian	Daničić-Karadžić	sr_dk
🇿🇼 Shona	Shona Contemporary Bible 2017	sn_bdrsc
🇸🇰 Slovak	Nádej pre každého	sk_onpk	New Testament only (27 books)
🇪🇸 Spanish	Reina Valera 1960	es_rvr1960
🇰🇪 Swahili	Swahili Revised Union Version	sw_sruv
🇸🇪 Swedish	Svenska Folkbibeln 2015	sv_sfb15
🇮🇳 Tamil	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Tamil	ta_irvtam
🇮🇳 Telugu	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Telugu 2019	te_irvtel
🇹🇭 Thai	Thai KJV	th_kjvthai
🇹🇴 Tongan	Ko e Tohi Tapu Kātoa	to_rwv
🇧🇼 Tswana	Lefoko: La Botshelo Kgolagano e Ntsha	tn_olef	New Testament only (27 books)
🇹🇷 Turkish	Yorumsuz Türkçe Çeviri	tr_ytc
🇺🇦 Ukrainian	Бібліка Відкрита Новий Переклад Українською (Biblica Open New Ukrainian Translation)	uk_vnpu	New Testament and Psalms only (28 books)
🇵🇰 Urdu	Indian Revised Version (IRV) Urdu 2019	ur_irvurd	Text is in Devanagari script rather than Perso-Arabic — this is how the source itself publishes this edition, aimed at Urdu speakers who read Devanagari
🇻🇳 Vietnamese	Tiếng Việt	vi_vie
🇮🇱 Yiddish	Orthodox Yiddish Tanakh (ארטאדאקסישע יידישע תּנ״ך)	yi_oytanakh	Old Testament only (39 books); Malachi has 3 chapters instead of 4 in this edition
🇳🇬 Yoruba	Yoruba Contemporary Bible	yo_oycb

Each entry's files are json/<code>.json and xml/<code>.xml (e.g. json/pt_nvi.json, xml/pt_nvi.xml). json/index.json lists this same catalog in machine-readable form.

en_kjva and the Apocrypha: the file has the 66 canonical books followed by the 14 extra books exactly as the source (a single source, no versions merged) provides them, in this order and with these abbrev values: 1 Esdras (1esd), 2 Esdras (2esd), Tobit (tb), Judith (jt), Esther (Greek) (ester-grego), Wisdom (sb), Sirach (eclo), Baruch (br, which includes the Letter of Jeremiah as chapter 6), Azariah (oracao-azarias, which includes the Song of the Three Young Men), Susanna (susana), Bel (bel-dragao), Manasseh (oracao-manasses), 1 Maccabees (1mc) and 2 Maccabees (2mc).

Anything the source does not provide is not in the file, so books such as 3 and 4 Maccabees or Psalm 151 are not included. Two details differ from printed editions: the Greek Esther chapters (10 to 16 in the Apocrypha) are stored as chapters 1 to 7 and its first verse is numbered 1 (in print, 10:4); and the unnumbered Prologue of Sirach is left out, because it has no verse numbers. Sirach (chapter 44) and Manasseh follow the source's own verse division, which may differ by a verse or two from other editions.

How the files are structured?

Book names: since v3.0, name (JSON) and n (XML) hold the book name in the language of each version — for example Genesis in en_kjv and 創世記 in ja_jniv. Up to v2.3, almost every file carried the Portuguese name. abbrev is the stable identifier across languages, and json/book_names.json lists the names of every version. sa_san-dn and fr_apee keep English book names.

Some names are kept exactly as each edition publishes them and may look unusual: tr_ytc (Turkish) lost the dotless ı and some accents ("Yaratiliş" instead of "Yaratılış"); el_fpb and the grc_* editions have no accents and use σ instead of the final ς; nl_nld1939 calls Revelation "Apokalyps"; kk_qazbi (Kazakh) uses abbreviated names; lv_lg8 (Latvian) uses forms such as "Mateja ev."; and two names in om_onocv (Oromo, Genesis and Psalms) may be doubtful transliterations.

XML

The XML files are encoded using UTF-8 and built in the following structure:

<bible>
  <b id="abbrev" n="Book Name">
    <c n="1">
      <v n="1">Verse text</v>
    </c>
  </b>
</bible>

JSON

The JSON files are also encoded using UTF-8 and built in the following structure:

[
	{
	"abbrev": "abbrev",
	"name": "Book Name",
	"chapters":
		[
			["Verse 1", "Verse 2", "Verse 3", "..."],
			["Verse 1", "Verse 2", "Verse 3", "..."],
			["Verse 1", "Verse 2", "Verse 3", "..."]
		]
	}
]

You can get the number of the chapter and verse using the array index.

What about the license and the copyrights?

This project's code and data are distributed under the MIT License. All the Bible versions are property of their respective owners. All rights reserved to the owners.

How can I help the project?

You can review the code, enhance the structures or work on new versions. Every help is welcome! :)

Can I donate to the project?

Yes, you can! You can give a volunteer donation by PayPal.