What was corrected
Thomas Nelson’s ordinary NKJV quotation policy permits qualifying works to quote no more than 500 verses when Scripture is no more than 25% of the work, no complete Bible book is reproduced, the quotations are properly cited, and the product is otherwise covered by the policy.
Those ordinary gratis terms exclude commentary and other biblical-reference works, and Thomas Nelson separately asks developers of smartphone applications and related digital products to request permission. Because Speak Scripture is a searchable biblical-reference library that also feeds an Android application, the project does not treat the general 500-verse allowance as blanket authorization for a bulk NKJV corpus.
The correction is therefore precise: NKJV snippets are allowed by reviewed exception; systematic NKJV storage remains permission-gated.
Berean Standard Bible — complete published text
The canonical website and Android snapshot publish the Berean Standard Bible as the complete modern-English Scripture text.
The official BSB terms dedicate the text to the public domain, freely permit all uses, and expressly permit reproduction, integration, adaptation, apps, audio, video, print, and commentaries when the official wording and identity are handled faithfully.
Every canonical selection records its translation, public-domain rights status, verse count, text status, official source URL, and pinned source edition.
New King James Version — preferred comparison edition
NKJV remains the owner’s preferred comparison translation. Short excerpts are supported through the separate translationExcerpts[] lane and never replace or masquerade as canonical BSB text.
An excerpt must be short, selected, clearly labeled, carry the exact registered copyright notice, include a verse count, and include a documented review basis, reviewer, date, scope, and evidence reference.
The validator rejects an unreviewed NKJV excerpt, an incorrect notice, or limited-rights wording placed into the canonical Scripture field.
World English Bible — unrestricted alternative
The World English Bible remains registered as another public-domain modern-English option.
Its official terms permit copying, publishing, proclaiming, distributing, broadcasting, printing, incorporating into software, and quoting without verse or percentage limits. If the official wording is changed, the modified result must not continue to be represented as the World English Bible.
Current production release
The original implementation note contained earlier launch totals. This published page reports the current canonical release instead.
| Published proclamations | 46 |
|---|---|
| Categories | 19 |
| Active needs | 70 |
| Scripture selections | 179 |
| BSB verse instances | 533 |
| Guided collections | 8 |
| Weekly rotation | 7 days |
| Unreviewed NKJV excerpts | 0 |
Required for every NKJV comparison excerpt
- A short selected excerpt rather than systematic passage storage
- Clear NKJV labeling separate from canonical BSB text
- The exact registered NKJV copyright notice
- A positive verse count and selected-excerpt status
- An approved written-permission or documented fair-use-review basis
- Reviewer, review date, defined scope, and evidence reference
Completed implementation
- All canonical Scripture selections use verified BSB wording imported from the pinned official source.
- The importer stops when the official source checksum changes, requiring a deliberate edition review before replacement.
- The public site, canonical JSON, CSV export, and Android snapshot are generated from one repository source.
- The Android reader supports offline search, categories, guided collections, a seven-day rotation, copy/share, actions, guardrails, source metadata, and optional reviewed comparison excerpts.
- No unreviewed NKJV wording is published.
Publishing and canonical hosting
- The canonical host is https://speakscripture.org.
- Cloudflare Pages builds the private GitHub main branch with npm run check and publishes the tested dist directory.
- The www hostname, Cloudflare project and preview hostnames, and the Netlify recovery hostname permanently redirect to the canonical domain.
Full modern Bible text: BSB. Carefully reviewed comparison snippets: NKJV. Additional unrestricted alternative: WEB.