Licenses and attributions
Where every text we publish comes from, under which license, and what exactly is our own work.
Bible text
These are the translations available on this page in English. Each one carries its own license, stated below.
Catholic Public Domain Version
Catholic traditionText: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV), translated from the Latin Vulgate. Public domain. Published without ecclesiastical approval.
King James Version
Protestant traditionText: King James Version (1769). Public domain.
Public domain texts
Both English translations on this site are in the public domain. The Catholic Public Domain Version was translated from the Latin Vulgate by Ronald L. Conte Jr. and released to the public domain. The King James Version of 1611 is likewise free of copyright. No permission is required to reproduce either, and none is claimed by us over them.
About Creative Commons licenses ↗What is our own work
In Portuguese, our Chama da Fé Edition combines the freely licensed Bíblia Livre across the 66 protocanonical books with our own translation of the 7 deuterocanonical books and of the books of Esther and Daniel in full — in those two, the numbering and the text follow the Catholic tradition from beginning to end, not only in the passages Protestant editions leave out. All of it was rendered from the Catholic Public Domain Version. That is 5,180 verses of original translation owned by Lykos Company. The English pages on this site reproduce existing public domain translations only — we claim nothing over them.
No ecclesiastical approval
The Catholic Public Domain Version carries no imprimatur, and neither does our Portuguese edition. These are reading and study editions assembled from freely licensed texts. We say so plainly because the alternative is letting the reader assume otherwise — for official liturgical or catechetical use, seek an edition approved by your diocese.
Psalm numbering
The CPDV follows the Latin Vulgate numbering of the Psalms, while the King James Version follows the Hebrew numbering. Through most of the Psalter the two differ by one: Psalm 22 in the CPDV is Psalm 23 in the KJV.
Software and resources
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