Credits and licenses

Every Bible text shown here has a verified license. Thank you to the translators and publishers.

Bible editions

• Arabic Van Dyck Bible (AVD) · License: Public Domain
  Arabic Van Dyck Bible. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/arb-vd_vpl.zip
• Bengali Indian Revised Version (IRV-BN) · License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  Bengali Indian Revised Version (IRV) © 2018, 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (https://ebible.org/find/details.php?id=benirv). Changes: none to the wording; formatting only (verse-per-line import). No endorsement by the licensor is implied.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/benirv_vpl.zip
• World English Bible (Catholic) (WEB-C) · License: Public Domain
  World English Bible (Catholic). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/eng-web-c_vpl.zip
• Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA) · License: Public Domain
  Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/engDRA_vpl.zip
• World English Bible (Protestant canon) (WEB) · License: Public Domain
  World English Bible (WEB). Public Domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/engwebp_vpl.zip
• Reina-Valera 1909 (RV1909) · License: Public Domain
  Reina-Valera 1909. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/spaRV1909_vpl.zip
• Spanish Free Bible for the World (with deuterocanonicals) (BLM) · License: Public Domain
  Spanish Free Bible for the World (with deuterocanonicals). Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/spablm_vpl.zip
• Louis Segond 1910 (LSG) · License: Public Domain
  Louis Segond 1910. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/fraLSG_vpl.zip
• Hindi Indian Revised Version (IRV-HI) · License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  Hindi Indian Revised Version (IRV) © 2017, 2018, 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (https://ebible.org/find/details.php?id=hin2017). Changes: none to the wording; formatting only (verse-per-line import). No endorsement by the licensor is implied.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/hin2017_vpl.zip
• Clementine Vulgate 1598 (VUL) · License: Public Domain
  Clementine Vulgate 1598. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/latVUC_vpl.zip
• World Portuguese Bible (BRBSL) · License: Public Domain
  World Portuguese Bible. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/porbrbsl_vpl.zip
• Russian Synodal Bible (SYN) · License: Public Domain
  Russian Synodal Bible. Public Domain. Source: eBible.org.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/russyn_vpl.zip
• Urdu Indian Revised Version (IRV-UR) · License: CC BY-SA 4.0
  Urdu Indian Revised Version (IRV) © 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: eBible.org (https://ebible.org/find/details.php?id=urd). Changes: none to the wording; formatting only (verse-per-line import). No endorsement by the licensor is implied.
  Source: https://ebible.org/Scriptures/urd_vpl.zip

Some editions are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Cross references

Cross references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), derived in part from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain). · openbible.info · CC BY

Commentary

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary (1859) is in the public domain. Thank you to the volunteers who transcribed it.

• Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary (1859) · License: Public Domain (US, published 1859)
  Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark.
  Source: https://archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible

Mass readings references

The references of the Mass readings come from the Church's own table of readings, the Ordo Lectionum Missae, editio typica altera (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1981), with the later changes published by the Holy See. Only the references are used; the texts come from the Bible editions listed on this page.

Images

Illustrations were generated with Canva AI in the owner's account and are used under the Canva AI Product Terms.

The three photographs in the memorial section on About are real family and press photographs provided by the owner; all rights reserved. The photographer of the press-conference photograph is being confirmed.

Voices

Two kinds of synthetic voice (AI) are used: the prayer audio, pre-recorded from public-domain prayer texts, and the Bible reader voices, which read the Bible text aloud on our server. Each voice, its license and its source are listed below.

• en (prayer audio): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (kokoro-js 1.2.1, q8), voice am_onyx · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• es (prayer audio): Piper (piper-tts), voice es_MX-claude-high · License: Apache-2.0 (model card: dataset/model license apache-2.0) · Source
• la (prayer audio): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (kokoro-js 1.2.1, q8) + espeak-ng 'la' phonemes remapped to ecclesiastical Latin (packages/tts/py/bfsi_tts.py), voice im_nicola · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• en (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice am_onyx · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• en (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice am_michael · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• es (Bible reader): Piper (rhasspy/piper-voices), voice es_MX-claude-high · License: Apache-2.0 (model card) · Source
• fr (Bible reader): Piper (rhasspy/piper-voices), trained from scratch on Multilingual LibriSpeech French (OpenSLR 94), voice fr_FR-mls-medium, speaker 0 (MLS 1840) · License: CC BY 4.0 (dataset, model card) · Source
  Training data: Multilingual LibriSpeech (MLS), French, by Vineel Pratap, Qiantong Xu, Anuroop Sriram, Gabriel Synnaeve and Ronan Collobert (Meta AI), OpenSLR 94 (https://www.openslr.org/94/), licensed CC BY 4.0. Voice model by the Piper project (rhasspy/piper-voices). No changes were made to the model; we only synthesize audio with it.
• pt (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice pm_alex · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• hi (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice hm_omega · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• zh (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice zm_yunjian (misaki zh G2P, Apache-2.0) · License: Apache-2.0 · Source
• la (Bible reader): Kokoro-82M v1.0 (hexgrad), ONNX q8 via kokoro-js 1.2.1, voice im_nicola (ecclesiastical Latin from espeak-ng phonemes) · License: Apache-2.0 · Source

Open-source licenses

Open-source software: BibleForSI uses open-source components that keep their own licenses (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, SIL Open Font License and others). The full list with license texts: /third-party-notices.txt