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Pilot project · draft
Open Bible Translation
An open translation of the Bible made directly from the Hebrew and Greek, with the help of artificial intelligence and under human review. Every verse shows its full history: the draft, the corrections, who made them and why. The Spanish edition is the Versión Testigo.
“Today you are witnesses.” — Ruth 4:9
Progress
How it is translated
- 1A draft from the originalAn AI translates each verse from the Hebrew or Greek words, with their Strong's number, grammatical analysis and definition. It follows a public style guide and glossary, and is never shown a published translation.
- 2Automatic checksThe glossary (every key term always rendered the same way), the spelling of names and the style are checked, and the wording is compared with other translations so that no copyrighted text is copied.
- 3Compared with a referenceA second model compares the draft with the original and with the Berean Standard Bible and flags differences in meaning.
- 4Human reviewHebrew and Greek specialists review every verse. Each correction is recorded with the name of the person who made it and the reason.
- 5ApprovalA committee approves the final text. Nothing changes silently: the full history of every verse is public.
How we use other translations
Translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek. Each verse is drafted by AI from the original-language words alone, without reference to any published translation. It is then checked against the original and against the Berean Standard Bible, a trusted public-domain translation, and every difference in meaning is weighed by a person.
When the comparison leads to a change, the reason is recorded in that verse's public history. The Berean Standard Bible serves as a second opinion that catches mistakes, not as a text we copy, and it is not always right: some of its suggestions are accepted, others are not.
AI models have read many Bibles during their training, so we don't only promise independence: we measure how much of our wording overlaps with other translations and publish it with every book's check report.
Source texts and license
Old Testament: Westminster Leningrad Codex, public domain. New Testament: SBL Greek New Testament (CC BY 4.0). Reference for comparison: Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
The Open Bible Translation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Anyone may read, quote, share, print, adapt and build on it, including in apps and through the API, as long as they credit the Open Bible Translation and keep changed versions under the same license.
The text, style guide, glossary and history are published openly at github.com/gregindeed/open-bible-translation, with a free JSON API.