Sources & Licensing
We take Scripture copyright seriously. Verse text on indexed pages comes only from public-domain translations. Copyrighted translations appear, if at all, only inside the reader via an officially licensed API.
| Translation | Language | Status | Use here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berean Standard Bible (BSB)Our flagship text. No permission required. | English | Public Domain (CC0) | Hosted in full |
| King James Version (KJV)Free by age. | English | Public Domain | Hosted (compare) |
| American Standard Version (ASV)Free by age. | English | Public Domain | Hosted (compare) |
| Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR1909)Our Spanish edition. Note: RVR1960 is © and is NOT used. | Spanish | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/es/) |
| João Ferreira de AlmeidaOur Portuguese edition (public-domain Almeida). ARA/ARC/ACF are © and are NOT used. | Portuguese | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/pt/) |
| Ostervald 1996Our French edition (public domain). | French | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/fr/) |
| Lutherbibel 1912Our German edition (public domain). | German | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/de/) |
| Синодальный переводOur Russian edition (public domain). | Russian | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/ru/) |
| Giovanni Diodati 1649Our Italian edition — the original Reformation translation (1649), public domain by age. Nuova Riveduta / Nuova Diodati are © and are NOT used. | Italian | Public Domain | Hosted in full (/it/) |
| Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)Ultra-literal 1898 translation; free by age. | English | Public Domain | Hosted (compare) |
| NIV / ESV / NLT / NASB / CSBNot part of indexed pages. | English | Copyrighted | Reader only, via licensed API |
| TB / BIS (LAI)Not hosted without a commercial license. | Indonesian | © LAI — non-commercial | Requires LAI license |
| AYT (YLSA)“Open” in spirit, still © — ask YLSA first. | Indonesian | Copyrighted (YLSA) | Requires written permission |
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Explanations, reflections, topic pages, and answers are BibleDawn’s own original work (some drafted with AI assistance and reviewed for accuracy).
Study data
Cross-references on verse pages come from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain), as compiled and released by OpenBible.info under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0). Each reference links to that verse on BibleDawn; the verse text shown is the public-domain BSB.
Word-study pages carry original BibleDawn explanations (our copyright). The original-language data they reference — each word's Strong's number, lemma, transliteration, and the public-domain Strong's Concordance (1890) gloss — is drawn from the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionaries, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). Strong's original glosses are themselves in the public domain by age.