Scripture-source integrity release

Published: deterministic official BSB builds

Speak Scripture now generates the Faith, Hope & Healing release from one repository-bundled, checksum-pinned copy of the reviewed official BSB bytes, eliminating environment-dependent mirror or live-download selection.

Published August 20, 2026Release 2026.08.20.1Updated August 20, 2026
Correction: NKJV snippets are allowed by reviewed exception. The project does not treat the ordinary quotation limits as blanket permission for a bulk NKJV biblical-reference corpus.

What was corrected

The prior Healing build accepted either an exact GitHub mirror blob or the official BSB download. Both sources passed structural validation, but their bytes differed, so local and Cloudflare builds could generate different Healing documents under the same source release.

The normal build no longer chooses a Scripture source based on network availability. It uses one committed gzip containing the exact reviewed official BSB bytes and fails if that asset is missing, corrupt, resized, or rehashed.

The canonical proclamation database and Android export remain unchanged; the correction makes long-form Healing document generation and source provenance reproducible across desktop, laptop, fresh-clone, and Cloudflare builds.

BSB

Berean Standard Bible — bundled official build bytes

The build asset is content/build-assets/bsb-official-2026-08-19/bsb.txt.gz. Its gzip SHA-256 is 72c881887cda1257e3794cbaeb2ced800e099cb62824e0426a459fc4948af9ee.

The decompressed source is 4,331,393 bytes, contains 31,086 parsed verse rows and the public-domain notice, and has the official SHA-256 2ac3af1de52d4e68261cba91d85c320b7eadc6560e830d99e591767b8ff5ca96.

Official BSB terms →

NKJV

New King James Version — unchanged reviewed comparison lane

The deterministic BSB correction does not publish or import a systematic NKJV corpus.

Short attributed NKJV excerpts remain available only through the separate rights-reviewed excerpt lane with documented scope and evidence.

Official Thomas Nelson permissions policy →

WEB

World English Bible — unchanged unrestricted alternative

The World English Bible remains registered as an unrestricted modern-English alternative.

The normal Faith, Hope & Healing release uses the bundled official BSB asset and does not silently substitute WEB or another translation.

Official WEB copyright and use statement →

Current production release

The original implementation note contained earlier launch totals. This published page reports the current canonical release instead.

Published proclamations47
Categories19
Active needs70
Scripture selections208
BSB verse instances565
Guided collections8
Weekly rotation7 days
Unreviewed NKJV excerpts0

Required for every NKJV comparison excerpt

  • Use only a short selected comparison excerpt rather than systematic passage storage
  • Keep NKJV wording separate from the canonical BSB Scripture field
  • Include the exact registered NKJV copyright notice
  • Record a positive verse count and selected-excerpt status
  • Record an approved written-permission or documented fair-use-review basis
  • Record reviewer, date, publication scope, and evidence reference

Completed implementation

  • Removed the network-dependent BSB mirror/live-download selection from Faith, Hope & Healing preparation.
  • Added a deterministic bundled-official-asset retrieval record containing the official URL, official byte hash, asset path, and gzip hash.
  • Added a release gate that verifies the gzip hash, decompressed byte count, public-domain notice, 31,086 verse rows, official byte hash, and absence of network-source fallbacks.
  • Repinned the generated Healing master guide, master proclamation provenance, public database provenance, and approved BSB DOCX hash to the bundled official bytes.
  • Preserved the exact canonical Android export hash and all 47 proclamation records while making the long-form Healing documents reproducible.

Publishing and canonical hosting

  • Cloudflare preview and production builds now use the same committed BSB bytes as desktop, laptop, and fresh-clone builds.
  • A changed official edition requires explicit review and replacement of the bundled asset, its gzip checksum, official checksum, generated provenance, and approved public-document hash.
  • The guarded publisher still verifies the exact merged commit, every public file, canonical redirects, cache headers, downloads, analytics, and production monitoring before completion.

Speak Scripture now has one deterministic official BSB source for every normal build environment, with no network-dependent Scripture substitution.