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All Bible texts are derived from public domain sources. All except the King James were acquired in ASCII format and converted to HTML locally. The King James version had already had some HTML work done, and this was changed to match our current display format. Thus, all Bibles have a common presentation format, differing only in whether or not the Old Testament or Apocryphal books are available for that translation.
Bibles are accessible by individual book. An index is provided as the first document with links to each book. Each book contains links at the top and bottom of the book back to the Bible's index, back to the previous book, and forward to the next book.
All Bibles are provided with a search engine linked to their scripture text as an aid in finding words or phrases. A simple version of the search engine appears at the bottom of each document. Selecting the Search Options link provides a more detailed search form.
Concordance functions are achieved by searching for a word or phrase using a listed Bible's search engine. If only a single word is entered, it becomes an exhaustive concordance, limited only by user constraints in the Search Options menu and patience in download times. Be advised that entering common words can generate extremely large HTML result pages. As more words are added or if more distinct words are used at the outset, it becomes easier to pinpoint a particular desired verse.
we recommend using the parallel display listed above with only a single version selected.
All Bible verses have an identifer so each verse can be located from any reference work. A CGI script is used to reduce the amount of information which is transferred when a Bible verse is requested. The format of the script follows:
<A HREF="/perl/br/BAV/book?n=#:#">
BAV is an abbreviation which tells the script to return the verses from the Authorized Version of the Bible. Other selectable versions include:
The book name follows the usual abbreviation syntax: ge, ex, le, nu, de, jos, jud, ru, 1sa, 2sa, 1ki, 2ki, 1ch, 2ch, ezr, ne, es, job, ps, pr, ec, so, isa, jer, la, eze, da, ho, joe, am, ob, jon, mic, na, hab, zep, hag, zec, mal, mt, mr, lu, joh, ac, ro, 1co, 2co, ga, eph, php, col, 1th, 2th, 1ti, 2ti, tit, phm, heb, jas, 1pe, 2pe, 1jo, 2jo, 3jo, jude, re, xtob, xju xwis, xsir, xbar, x1ma, x2ma, x3ez, x4ez, xpm, x151, and xlao.
The number of lines of context around a particular verse can be increased to enough verses of scripture to read in the full book if desired. Other arguments you may see in links include:
which provide enough options to view any portion of scripture exactly. Note that the br script will accept either an & or tilde as a separator between the arguments to satisfy HTML validators. In addition, you can use:
Other scripts you will see references to in the Darby and Douay-Rheims Bibles include:
which display their associated scripture verse notes. Both of these scripts also support the bw=on option to eliminate the colored background.