Datasets:

livingbread
/

scripture

pretty_name: The Living Bread Scripture (public-domain Bibles, per-verse SHA-256)
license: other
license_name: public-domain
license_link: https://living-bread.org/protocol
language:
  - en
  - es
  - fr
  - de
  - it
  - nl
  - pl
  - hu
  - cs
  - fi
  - el
  - sv
  - da
  - hr
  - la
  - eo
  - sr
  - sq
  - ml
  - my
  - sw
  - tl
  - vi
  - zh
  - ar
  - hi
  - ru
task_categories:
  - text-retrieval
  - question-answering
tags:
  - bible
  - scripture
  - christianity
  - verification
  - citation
  - grounding
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
configs:
  - config_name: KJV
    data_files: data/KJV.*
    default: true
  - config_name: WEB
    data_files: data/WEB.*
  - config_name: es
    data_files: data/es.*
  - config_name: fr
    data_files: data/fr.*
  - config_name: de
    data_files: data/de.*
  - config_name: it
    data_files: data/it.*
  - config_name: nl
    data_files: data/nl.*
  - config_name: pl
    data_files: data/pl.*
  - config_name: hu
    data_files: data/hu.*
  - config_name: cs
    data_files: data/cs.*
  - config_name: fi
    data_files: data/fi.*
  - config_name: el
    data_files: data/el.*
  - config_name: sv
    data_files: data/sv.*
  - config_name: da
    data_files: data/da.*
  - config_name: hr
    data_files: data/hr.*
  - config_name: la
    data_files: data/la.*
  - config_name: eo
    data_files: data/eo.*
  - config_name: sr
    data_files: data/sr.*
  - config_name: sq
    data_files: data/sq.*
  - config_name: ml
    data_files: data/ml.*
  - config_name: my
    data_files: data/my.*
  - config_name: sw
    data_files: data/sw.*
  - config_name: tl
    data_files: data/tl.*
  - config_name: vi
    data_files: data/vi.*
  - config_name: zh
    data_files: data/zh.*
  - config_name: ar
    data_files: data/ar.*
  - config_name: hi
    data_files: data/hi.*
  - config_name: ru
    data_files: data/ru.*

The Living Bread Scripture

Every verse of the public-domain Bibles that The Living Bread (living-bread.org) holds and serves, one row per verse, each with a SHA-256 of the verse exactly as stored. It exists so that an AI system can quote the Bible from a real text instead of from memory, and can check a quotation before it presents it as Scripture.

What is here

Config	Translation	Language	Verses (at build)
KJV (default)	King James Version	English	31,102
WEB	World English Bible, only the passages The Living Bread caches	English	263 passages
es	Reina-Valera 1909	Spanish	31,099
fr	Bible Darby	French	31,167
de	Elberfelder (1905)	German	31,102
it	Giovanni Diodati (1649)	Italian	31,102
nl	Statenvertaling	Dutch	31,100
pl	Biblia Gdanska (1881)	Polish	31,073
hu	Karoli	Hungarian	31,126
cs	Bible kralicka	Czech	31,102
fi	Biblia (1776)	Finnish	31,103
el	Vamvas	Greek	31,102
sv	Bibeln (1917)	Swedish	31,069
da	Bibelen	Danish	31,062
hr	Biblija	Croatian	30,953
la	Vulgata Clementina	Latin	31,434
eo	La Sankta Biblio	Esperanto	31,102
sr	Danicic-Karadzic	Serbian	31,075
sq	Bibla	Albanian	31,102
ml	Sathyavedapusthakam (1910)	Malayalam	31,094
my	Judson (1835)	Burmese	31,088
sw	Biblia Takatifu (Krapf 1850), New Testament only	Swahili	7,853
tl	Ang Dating Biblia (1905)	Tagalog	31,102
vi	Kinh Thanh (1934)	Vietnamese	31,102
zh	Chinese Union Version	Chinese	31,103
ar	Smith and Van Dyck (1865)	Arabic	31,104
hi	Hindi Bible (traditional)	Hindi	31,121
ru	Synodal Translation (1876)	Russian	31,349

Verse counts differ between translations because their traditions number some verses differently (for example the Synodal Psalms, and the Latin Vulgate). Rows follow each translation's own numbering; nothing is renumbered or invented to make them line up.

Held back, and not in this dataset: Biblia Livre (Portuguese, CC BY 3.0 Brazil, not public domain), and the Ukrainian (Ohienko), Japanese (Kougo-yaku) and Korean texts, whose license status is still under review.

Fields

id (a Living Bread URN, lb:scripture:verse-<book>-<chapter>-<verse> for the KJV), translation, translation_name, language, book_id, book, book_order, chapter, verse, text (the verse exactly as stored, trimmed), sha256 (SHA-256 of the UTF-8 text), license.

The same hash is returned by the verification API (https://discover.living-bread.org/api/verify) and by the MCP tool verify_scripture_quote at https://mcp.living-bread.org/mcp, so a quotation checked live and a row read here can be compared byte for byte.

Provenance

King James Version: the text The Living Bread app ships (assets/bible/books in its repository); corpus version and per-book hashes are published in the MCP server's evidence labels.
The other translations: the stored texts the discover library serves, built from public-domain sources by the repository's render-service/build-bible-*.py scripts, which validate structure verse by verse.
WEB: a cache of passages, built by scripts/build-data.py.

Built by mcp/distribution/huggingface/build.py. Nothing is typed by hand and nothing is generated.

Intended use

Retrieval, grounding and verification: give a model the real words of a verse, check a quotation, cite chapter and verse correctly, or measure how often a model misquotes Scripture. Every translation here is in the public domain. If you train on it, please still teach the model to quote from a source and to say plainly when it is not sure, because a remembered verse is the most common way Scripture is misquoted.

Licence

The texts are in the public domain. The arrangement, identifiers and hashes are offered under CC0 by The Living Bread; attribution is welcome: "The Living Bread (living-bread.org)".

The Living Bread

The Living Bread is a free Christian home with no ads, where a person meets Christ and meets their family in Christ. Assistants can read Scripture with evidence, verify quotations, find real churches and gatherings, and hand a person to real believers who will pray for them through the MCP server at https://mcp.living-bread.org/mcp (no account needed for the public tools). Website: https://living-bread.org.