The Holy Bible

This reader contains the Berean Standard Bible from the publisher’s own text file. The project describes it as a clear English translation intended for reading, study, memorization and public use. It is one named edition within the Berean project, distinct from the Berean Literal Bible and Majority Standard Bible.

The BSB committee describes an open translation process that connects its wording to Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek sources and makes translation tables available for review. The publisher currently labels its downloadable BSB files as updated to the third printing; the exact imported source file in this reader has no print identifier, so this guide does not claim a specific printing. The reader maps all 66 books and 31,086 prepared passage units and does not supply text from another translation.

At a glance

Books: 66
Chapters: 1,189
Stored passages: 31,086

Edition type: Translation
Edition language and script: English · Latin script
Tradition: Christian
Translator: Berean Bible Translation Committee
Credits: The Berean Bible Translation Committee · translator
Translated from: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek: the Hebrew Masoretic text (Westminster Leningrad Codex), with the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint in places, and the Greek New Testament.

Sources for this guide

Sites and rights

Text source — The publisher's own verse-per-line text file, exactly as downloaded; a snapshot is kept in the repository. Retrieved 2026-09-28.
Rights evidence — Terms and Conditions page: dedicated to the public domain as of 30 April 2023; attribution appreciated but not required; a text that varies from the official one should not carry the Berean name. Retrieved 2026-09-28.
Official page — The Berean Standard Bible's own site.
Also available at — eBible.org also distributes the BSB; its copy differs in places from the publisher's current file, so the publisher's is used.

Public domain in the worldwide.

Credit: The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB, dedicated to the public domain (bereanbible.com)

Dedicated to the public domain by its publisher on 30 April 2023, so no jurisdictional limit applies. Attribution is appreciated but not required. The publisher asks that a text which varies from the official text not carry the Berean name, so this text is kept exactly as the publisher's file gives it.

Rights evidence and source record

Open rights evidence · reviewed 2026-09-28

The Berean Bible and Majority Bible texts are officially dedicated to the public domain as of April 30, 2023. All uses are freely permitted.

Reference system: bible

A committee translation for shared use

Modern English still makes interpretive choices

A modern translation made available for reuse

The publisher’s BSB text

Reading and comparison