Two translations in the making
We want you to be able to read a passage and trust the work behind it. Every sentence in OASV and OARV will be translated from its identified source-language text, informed by linguistic, historical, and literary scholarship and tested against serious alternative readings. We will record why each English line reads as it does, with citations you can check. People set the translation policy, and we will explain and justify the choices that shape both versions.
Both versions will draw on the same source texts and reviewed scholarship. The OpenScripture AI Study Version (OASV) helps you see the detail of the source. The OpenScripture AI Readers Version (OARV) lets you follow the passage in clear English while hearing more of its literary character.
OpenScripture AI Study Version
For readers who want to look closely. OASV will follow the source wording as closely as clear English allows, so repeated words, important connections, and genuine uncertainties remain visible. It will read in normal English by default, with an option to show source-language words a reader has learned.
OpenScripture AI Readers Version
For readers who want to stay with the flow of a passage. OARV will use natural English while making room for its poetry, wordplay, imagery, and voice. When an effect cannot come across in the same form, a note will explain the choice.
Human-curated policies set out how each version handles source readings, ambiguity, recurring words, names, and literary form. Those decisions are written down and open to scrutiny before they guide a translation.
We identify the exact source-language text for each passage and translate every sentence from it. An existing English Bible is never the draft to be rewritten. Where the source itself is disputed, we document the alternatives rather than hide the question.
For each book, we will consult linguistic, historical, and literary scholarship, check competing arguments, and record precise references. Every sentence will have a reviewable account of its source, the choices made, and why.
OASV keeps close to the source. OARV is drafted independently from the same reviewed research, with a freer English line where that better carries the source’s effect. Only after both drafts exist do reviewers compare them.
Independent reviewers will check the English against the source, scholarship, and human policy. Editors will turn the detailed working notes into clear explanations for readers, keeping important alternatives and uncertainty while leaving internal codes out of view.
Before a book appears in the reader, its wording, notes, source references, bibliography, and links back to source words must pass review together. Readers will be able to follow a concise note to the sources behind it.
We will name the text behind each passage, show where its reading is debated, and cite the scholarship behind important decisions. A short note will explain the choice in ordinary language; its sources and the book bibliography will let readers go further. Evidence from another textual tradition may shed light on a question, but it will not quietly replace the source being translated. We are preparing a reader-friendly translation policy from the same approved decisions that guide the work.
Earlier reviewed study drafts may give OASV a starting point, but they must be checked again under its new policy. OARV will begin independently from the source research and be tested on prose, poetry, and wordplay. We will release a book only when its text, explanations, citations, and source-word links have passed review together.
The public status page records what is available now. The technical overview explains how source texts, alignment, translation differences, and other data layers fit together.