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About
Technology in service of the Bible.
Bible.Tech is a small, open-source ministry studio. We build free tools that help people understand Scripture, grow through the church's best writing, keep God's word in memory and carry it into new languages.
Why one studio
Each of our projects began as an answer to one need: a way to memorize Scripture, a library of classic books, a way into a new language, a translation that shows its work.
They grew up on the same foundations, with the same design, the same care for many languages and the same refusal to charge for God's word. Bible.Tech brings them together under one name so they can share what they learn.
What we make
- Open Word Bible translates.
- Ochorus reads.
- Take Root helps people remember.
- Every Tongue, still in development, will help people learn a new language through the Bible.
Principles
Six things we hold to
Every project is measured against these. When a feature would break one, we don't build it.
Free, always
No paywalls, no ads and no selling your attention. Scripture and the works that serve it should cost nothing to read.
Open texts
We build on public-domain and openly licensed texts, and publish our own translation into the public domain.
Honest about AI
We use AI to draft and translate, and we say so. AI-drafted work stays marked as a draft until a named person has reviewed it.
Every language
We build for the whole church. Each project is multilingual from its first release.
The text is the hero
Quiet, calm interfaces that get out of the way so the words on the page can do their work.
Show the reasoning
Where we make choices, such as how to translate a word, we show our work so you can weigh it yourself.
How we use AI
A helper for drafting, never the final word
AI lets a small team do work that would otherwise take decades. Here is where it helps, and where it stops.
We do
Draft with it
AI drafts translations and their reasoning, so reviewers start from something to check.
We do
Label every draft
Anything AI wrote is marked as a draft, or as unreviewed, wherever it appears.
We don't
Let it sign off
Only a named human reviewer can mark work as reviewed.
We don't
Let it invent the original
Hebrew and Greek always come from published source data.
Sources and licences
What we build on, and what you can do with it
| Project | Content | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Open Word Bible | A new translation from Hebrew and Greek source data (MACULA, SBLGNT, OSHB) | Text CC0 (public domain); code MIT |
| Ochorus | Public-domain Christian classics, with labelled translations | Originals public domain |
| Take Root | Bible versions in many languages, starting with public-domain translations | Each version under its own licence |
| Every Tongue | Verse-aligned Bible texts | In development |
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