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The 1611 is the text the Reader is built on. The other languages sit beside it, in the language menu and under Readings on every verse, so you can compare. Each one is public domain or openly licensed, and each was checked against its source.

Public domainEnglish — 1611The King James Bible as first printed in 1611, with the translators’ margin notes and the ApocryphaPublic domainEnglish — modern spellingThe King James text in the 1769 Oxford spellingPublic domainEspañol — SpanishReina-Valera 1909Public domain中文 — ChineseChinese Union Version 和合本 (1919), traditional charactersCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0हिन्दी — HindiIndian Revised Version (IRV) Hindi, 2019Copyright © 2017, 2018, 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions. Used under CC BY-SA 4.0, source eBible.org. Changes: footnotes and inline cross-references removed; 3 John 1:15 and Revelation 12:18 shown with the 1611 verse they belong to. The licensor does not necessarily endorse these changes.Public domainالعربية — ArabicSmith–Van Dyck (1865)Public domainFrançais — FrenchLa Sainte Bible, OstervaldPublic domainItaliano — ItalianRiveduta (Luzzi, 1927)Public domainPolski — PolishBiblia Gdańska (1632, 1881 printing)Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0বাংলা — BengaliIndian Revised Version (IRV) Bengali, 2019Copyright © 2018, 2019 Bridge Connectivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Used under CC BY-SA 4.0, source eBible.org. Changes: footnotes removed; 3 John 1:15 and Revelation 12:18 shown with the 1611 verse they belong to; where the IRV joins two verses the text sits on the first, marked with both numbers. The licensor does not necessarily endorse these changes.

Licence for the IRV editions: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Where a language numbers its verses differently from the 1611 and the match can’t be made for certain, that chapter shows no reading in that language rather than the wrong verse. The extra-biblical shelf uses classic public-domain translations; the translator and year are on each booke (Outside the Bible).

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Original words, Commentary, the dictionaries and Strong’s Concordance (Study). Strong’s numbers come from the King James text of 1769, shown verse by verse beside the 1611, never matched word for word to its spelling.

Public domainStrong’s numbers per verseThe King James text of 1769 with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org eng-kjv2006, from CrossWire)Public domainStrong’s Hebrew dictionaryJames Strong, A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Hebrew Bible (1894); XML edited by David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer, Open ScripturesPublic domainStrong’s Greek dictionaryJames Strong, Dictionary of the Greek Words (1890); XML by Ulrik Petersen, Open ScripturesPublic domainMatthew Henry’s Concise CommentaryConcise Commentary on the Whole Bible, CrossWire MHCC module (text from CCEL)Public domainEaston’s Bible DictionaryM. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), CrossWire Easton modulePublic domain text; transcription under the MIT LicenseWebster’s Dictionary (1828)Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), kept to the words found in the King James or the 1611Transcription copyright © 2021 DataWar (github.com/DataWar/1828-dictionary), used under the MIT License; the full notice is below. Changes: markup removed, and only headwords found in the King James or the 1611 kept.
The MIT notice for the Webster transcription

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