Licenses and attributions
Why public-domain Bibles
Sacred Feed ships five English translations whose text is free for anyone to copy, quote and share. That is what lets the whole Bible be free in the app, work offline, and be shared from verse cards without restriction. We are honest about the trade-off: these are not the newest translations, and we say so plainly where it matters.
Bible translations
| Translation | Year | Books | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King James Version (KJV) | 1611; 1769 text | 66 | Public domain in the United States | In the United Kingdom the KJV remains under perpetual Crown copyright, administered by Cambridge University Press. Sacred Feed is distributed in the United States. |
| World English Bible (WEB) | 2000s, eBible.org | 66 plus the full deuterocanon and apocrypha | Public domain | "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org. The name is used here for a faithful, unaltered copy of the text. |
| Berean Standard Bible (BSB) | 2016; public domain since April 30, 2023 | 66 | Public domain (CC0) | The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. Credit is given as a courtesy; the license does not require it. |
| American Standard Version (ASV) | 1901 | 66 | Public domain | Text from eBible.org. |
| Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) | 2009 | 73 | Public domain, dedicated by Ronald L. Conte Jr. | A translation of the Latin Vulgate by a single translator. It is published without ecclesiastical approval or imprimatur and is not an officially approved Catholic edition. Source: sacredbible.org. |
Scripture text in Sacred Feed is reproduced word for word from these editions. You are free to copy and share it.
Sources used to prepare Deep Studies
Deep Study notes are written from these public-domain and openly licensed works. See how our studies are made.
- Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible. Public domain.
- Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). Public domain.
- Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), Hebrew and Greek dictionaries. Public domain. Dictionary data from the openscriptures project.
- Cross references from OpenBible.info, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Changes were made: filtering and ranking.
Fonts
All typefaces in the app and on this website are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1:
- Instrument Serif
- Inter
- Newsreader
- Literata
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Next
- Manrope
Open-source software
The app is built with open-source packages, including GRDB.swift (MIT License) and swift-dependencies (MIT License). The complete list with license texts is in the app under Settings › About › Licenses.
What belongs to us
The Deep Study texts, plain-word summaries, reading plans, the illustrations, the mascot Pip (a sparrow with a lantern), the app design, the name Sacred Feed and the logo are copyright Westeresch B.V., all rights reserved. Illustrations were created with the help of AI image tools and finished by hand. Please do not copy or redistribute this content without permission; the Scripture text itself is always free.
Trademarks
- Sacred Feed and Pip are trademarks of Westeresch B.V.
- "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org.
- Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and App Store are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Questions
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