Sources & licences

ToastScripture stitches together several openly-licensed datasets. Data built 2026-09-01; 100262 verses indexed.

• Bible text — World English Bible, King James Version, American Standard Version (1901). All public domain. Served from helloao.org's Free Use Bible API.
• Apocrypha / Deuterocanon — World English Bible apocrypha (public domain), text only. Not present in the KJV/ASV data here. What's included and why →
• Cross-references — openbible.info, derived from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. CC-BY. Canonical books only.
• People, places, events, verse links — Theographic Bible Metadata. CC-BY-SA 4.0. Place pins use openbible.info geocoding only; unlocated and out-of-region entries are shown without a pin.
• Interlinear & word studies — the STEPBible / Tyndale House Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT & Greek NT (CC-BY 4.0), a curated word-by-word tagging; Strong's dictionaries via Open Scriptures (CC-BY-SA).
• Bible Dictionary — Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897. Public domain.
• Commentary — Matthew Henry (1710), Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (1871). Public domain. Canonical books only.
• Apocrypha ↔ canon parallels — hand-curated by this project; widely-noted allusions and parallels, not authoritative cross-references.
• Ancient Near Eastern texts (/ancient) — public-domain translations from Project Gutenberg: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Babylonian Legends of the Creation (1921) and The Babylonian Story of the Deluge (1920); C. H. W. Johns, The Oldest Code of Laws in the World (1903); Babylonian and Assyrian Literature (1901). The links from their lines to Bible verses, and the shared-word glossary, are hand-curated by this project.

Where a machine-generated reflection appears (e.g. some Word of the Day entries) it is labelled as AI-assisted.