| --- |
| 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. |
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