Open Source English

About this edition

Abbreviation
OSEN
Language
English — Latin script
Translation philosophy
Dynamic equivalence
Tradition
Non-denominational
Publisher / body
free-bible project
Method
LLM-assisted
Translated from
Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek
Textual basis
OT: Masoretic Text · NT: SBL Greek New Testament

Coverage

Scope
The whole Bible
Books
66
Chapters
1189
Verses
31167
Deuterocanonical books
No

Distinctive features

  • Optimised for reading aloud: natural rhythm and flow rather than a word-for-word rendering.
  • Translated by a language model directly from the Hebrew (Tanach) and the Greek (SBLGNT), not by way of another English translation.
  • Follows the Hebrew and Greek verse numbering, not the usual English numbering.

Licence and attribution

Licence
CC BY CC-BY-4.0
Attribution
Required
Commercial use
Allowed

This text requires attribution. The notice below must travel with the text and with anything derived from it.

Translated by the free-bible project from the Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex (tanach.us) and The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Michael W. Holmes, ed., SBL and Logos Bible Software, 2010). No credit is required for this project's own work, but the source texts must be credited: the SBLGNT under CC BY 4.0 with a link to https://sblgnt.com, and the Hebrew text to https://www.tanach.us. Because the SBLGNT is CC BY 4.0, that obligation carries over to this translation and to anything derived from it.

This edition builds on SBL Greek New Testament. The licence terms there — including any attribution requirements — apply to this text as well.

Sources for this information

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