About

BibleTide is a website for reading and studying the Bible in four English translations that are in the public domain.

• It is free to use and has no ads.
• You do not need an account.
• It uses no cookies and no trackers. Visitors are counted per day, week and month without any ID (see Privacy).
• Everything you save (highlights, notes, bookmarks, reading-plan progress, settings and history) stays in your browser on your device. You can export it to a file and import it on another device, or delete it all in one step. Details: Privacy.
• After a visit, the site also works offline, and you can install it to your home screen.

Search

Search returns every matching verse, in Bible order. Nothing is filtered out or ranked away.

• Words are matched as whole words: love finds “love” but not “beloved”.
• Put a phrase in quotation marks to find exactly that phrase, for example "daily bread".
• You can choose to include other forms of a word, so that love also finds “loved” and “loves”.
• Put a minus sign before a word or phrase to leave it out (love -"holy spirit"), or a star after the start of a word to find every word that begins that way (lov*).

Translations and sources

• Berean Standard Bible (BSB): public domain. bereanbible.com
• World English Bible (WEB): public domain. ebible.org and worldenglish.bible
• King James Version (KJV): public domain outside the United Kingdom; in the UK, Crown rights apply. Digital text: ebible.org
• American Standard Version (ASV): public domain. Digital text: ebible.org
• STEPBible lexicon data, used by the study features: CC BY 4.0. “Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge.” github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
• OpenBible.info cross-references, used by the study features: CC BY 4.0. openbible.info
• Berean Bible translation tables (the Hebrew and Greek words behind each BSB verse), used by the study features: public domain. berean.bible
• Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, from the Berean Bible topical index.
• Audio Bible (BSB), read by Bob Souer, Jordan Scott Gilbert and Barry Hays: dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0) by BSB Publishing. bereanbible.com/audio
• Computer voices (Heart, Nicole): recorded for this site with the Kokoro-82M text-to-speech model (Apache License 2.0). Kokoro-82M

More about each translation: Translations. Why a few verses differ between them: Textual variants.

How the site is funded

BibleTide is free and has no ads. A way to support it may be added later.

Text corrections

The Bible text is shown as its source publishes it. Every correction we make (for example a missing space in a source file) is listed on the Translations page under “Text corrections”.

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