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Naravist includes the 66 books of the Protestant Bible: 1,189 chapters and 31,102 verse numbers. New readers start with the Berean Standard Bible. The reader includes five translations: the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), the King James Version (KJV), the World English Bible (WEB), the Bible in Basic English (BBE), and the American Standard Version (ASV). Search covers three of them: Berean Standard, King James, and World English. Basic English and American Standard readers search the King James words. Other Christian traditions include additional books; those are not included in this edition.

The chapter and book pages show the King James Version. In the app, reading opens in the Berean Standard Bible unless you have chosen another translation.

The Berean Standard Bible, the World English Bible, the Bible in Basic English, and the American Standard Version are in the public domain. The King James Version is in the public domain in the United States. The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain.

The World English Bible is in the Public Domain. That means that it is not copyrighted. However, "World English Bible" is a Trademark of eBible.org. All we ask is that if you CHANGE the actual text of the World English Bible in any way, you not call the result the World English Bible any more. Naravist publishes the unchanged 66-book Protestant text from the 2020 stable edition, and uses the name World English Bible only for that text.

The King James text is the 1769 Oxford edition in the eBible.org CrossWire file eng-kjv (26 September 2026). It reads Cambridge "she went" at Ruth 3:15, shows a divine name the source marks (Lord, God, Jehovah) in small capitals, keeps a capital inscription such as "HOLINESS TO THE LORD" in capitals, has no italics, and shows the letter subscriptions separately with a label.

Our publication check compares every verse with its source file. The Berean Standard Bible comes from the publisher's verse file at bereanbible.com. The World English Bible comes from the 2020 stable text of the eng-web edition at eBible.org. The King James text is the 1769 Oxford edition published by eBible.org from the CrossWire eng-kjv file (archive dated 26 September 2026). Italic words are not marked, psalm titles stay off verse 1, and the letter subscriptions stay in the text and are labelled. Verse numbers still follow the Bible Databases import. The American Standard Version and the Bible in Basic English were taken from that import and corrected against the eBible.org verse files where the import had dropped spaces around italic words or copied a heading into a verse. Psalm titles that those files print inside verse 1 are left off, as they are in the King James text. The check covers each translation, chapter, feed card, search result, and verse detail.

Translation names stay visible. Differences in wording, headings, and verse numbering belong to the source editions. Verse numbers follow the King James numbering. Where a translation leaves a verse number empty, such as Matthew 17:21 in the Berean Standard Bible, the reader says so; text from another translation is never substituted. Sixteen verse numbers have no words in the Berean Standard Bible, the American Standard Version, and the Bible in Basic English. The World English Bible leaves some King James verse numbers empty and prints the close of Romans at Romans 14:24-26. Both the BSB and WEB include Psalm titles in verse 1.

Search matches the words of the Berean Standard, King James or World English Bible. It starts with the translation you read, and you can switch it on the search page. Readers of the Basic English or American Standard search the King James wording. A reference search such as "Ruth 1:16" finds the same verse in every translation.

A person appearing alongside a verse does not mean they wrote it or spoke its words. Character associations need supporting references. People with the same name can have separate profiles, and uncertain identifications should remain visible as uncertain.

Names and reference data are adapted from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References (TIPNR), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Naravist converts identifiers and references for this reader. AI-generated articles from that dataset are not used. Portraits are AI-generated artistic interpretations, not evidence of historical appearance.

Context notes, introductions, journey notes and reading prompts are separate from Scripture. They were drafted with AI and must pass automated checks for citations and quoted text before publication. A review pass by the same AI model then checked each claim against its verses. For 1,425 of the 1,443 chapter notes and introductions, it ran in the session that drafted them. For journeys, Traces, the Timeline and Places, it ran as a second agent that had not drafted them. None of it is an independent review or a human one. A note that fails a check is not published, and the Bible passage stays readable either way. Most passages show their chapter's context, labeled as chapter context. How we review has the details.

We do not write posts in the voice of biblical people. Software can check source text and references; it cannot prove every interpretation. Where readers and traditions differ, a responsible explanation names the interpretation and its limits.

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