--- title: "Copyright & Scripture Permissions" category: "other" description: "Copyright notices for the Bible translations and reference works quoted on this site, and the terms under which they are used." tags: ["copyright", "permissions", "attribution", "translations"] draft: false date_created: 2026-07-25 date_modified: 2026-10-09 ai_provider_models: - anthropic/claude-opus-5 - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 - anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 --- # Copyright & Scripture Permissions This site quotes Scripture from several translations, and draws on lexicons, commentaries and linguistic datasets. The notices below are the ones those publishers require, gathered in one place. Individual studies also name the translation at each quotation. ## Scripture quotations **ESV** — Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. **NIV** — Scripture quotations marked "NIV" are taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. **NKJV** — Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. **CSB** — Scripture quotations marked "CSB" have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers. **NLT** — Scripture quotations marked "NLT" are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. **NASB** — Scripture quotations marked "NASB" are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.lockman.org **LSB** — Scripture quotations marked "LSB" are taken from the Legacy Standard Bible®, copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lsbible.org. The Lockman Foundation's quoting guidelines allow up to 1,000 verses in a single work, not exceeding 50% of that work's total text, and no complete book of the Bible. **BSB** — the Berean Standard Bible is released under Creative Commons CC0 (public domain dedication). Quoted freely. **WEB, ASV, YLT, KJV, Tyndale, Rotherham** — the World English Bible, American Standard Version (1901), Young's Literal Translation, King James Version, William Tyndale's New Testament (1525/1530) and J. B. Rotherham's *Emphasised Bible* are in the public domain. Quoted freely, and named at each quotation so a reader can tell which is which. **Septuagint (Brenton)** and the **Masoretic Text (Westminster Leningrad Codex)** — public domain. **Septuagint (Swete)** — the Odes, the Psalms of Solomon and Psalm 151 from H. B. Swete, *The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint* (1887-94), public domain by age, in the digitisation by the Open Greek and Latin Project's [First1KGreek](https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek), licensed [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). ## Original-language and linguistic data **MACULA Greek and Hebrew Linguistic Datasets** © Biblica, Inc., licensed CC BY 4.0 — the source of the morphology, lemma, Strong's number, semantic-domain, syntax and coreference data behind the word studies on this site. Louw-Nida semantic-domain data within those datasets originates with the UBS MARBLE project and is used by permission granted to Clear Bible. **SBLGNT** — The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, copyright © 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Used under its stated licence. **Cross-references** — from OpenBible.info, licensed CC BY. ## Rabbinic and Second Temple texts **The William Davidson Talmud** — the English translation of the Babylonian Talmud by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, © Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., made available by [Sefaria](https://www.sefaria.org) under [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Quoted here in brief, with attribution, on a non-commercial site. Tractates cited by daf (e.g. b. *Sanhedrin* 97a). **The Book of Jubilees, 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch** — quoted from R. H. Charles's 1913 translation, public domain by age, via the open-licensed [scrollmapper](https://github.com/scrollmapper/bible_databases_deuterocanonical) corpus. **The Ante-Nicene Fathers** (Roberts & Donaldson, eds.; Coxe's American edition) and the *Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers* (Schaff, ed.) — public domain by age, from [CCEL](https://ccel.org). Patristic quotations are cited by work and section. These texts are quoted as historical evidence of what their authors believed. They are not Scripture and carry no authority here; see any study that cites them for the caution stated in full. ## Commentaries and reference works Where a study draws on a copyrighted commentary, study Bible, lexicon or dictionary — the *ESV Study Bible*, the *NIV* and *NKJV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible*, the *NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible*, the *CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible*, the *NLT Life Application Study Bible*, the *NLT Christian Basics Bible*, the *Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament*, *The Bible Knowledge Commentary*, or a named monograph — the work is credited in that study's own **References & Recommended Reading** section. Such material is used only in brief, attributed quotation or synthesized into original prose. The notes, articles, charts and introductions in those editions are separately copyrighted from the Bible text they accompany, and no part of them is reproduced here at length. ## Public-domain charts Several studies reproduce charts by **Clarence Larkin** (1850-1924) from *Dispensational Truth, or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages* (1918; expanded edition 1920) and *Rightly Dividing the Word*. These are in the public domain: the works were published well before 1929, and their author died in 1924. The charts carry Larkin's own "Copyrighted" mark, which is a notice of a term that has since expired, not a live claim. They are self-hosted here rather than hotlinked, and each is captioned with its title and Larkin's name where it appears. Reproducing a chart is not endorsement of everything it asserts; where a study uses one, it says in its own prose which parts of the chart it holds and which it does not. If you believe anything on this site exceeds fair use or a publisher's stated permission, please [open an issue](https://github.com/ding0t/bible_studies/issues) and it will be corrected. ## This site's own writing Everything above is what this site borrows. This section is what it grants. The studies, commentaries, sermons and other prose written for this site are licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CC BY 4.0). You may share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercially, provided you give credit, link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. Preferred attribution: > David Ingot, *The Way* — https://the-way.lewy.au The requirement to indicate changes is the one that matters here. These are personal study notes, published so that they can be tested rather than taken on trust; if you alter one, say so, so that your edit is not read as something this site stands behind. That licence covers the original writing and nothing else. Quoted Scripture, the lexicons and commentaries listed above, and the linguistic datasets each remain under their own terms, as does every source catalogued in [references/README.md](https://github.com/ding0t/bible_studies/blob/main/references/README.md). The site's code — the tools, the build scripts and the query layer — is separately licensed under the MIT Licence.