“Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.”
A complete, carefully typeset edition of the Berean Standard Bible — free to read, free to copy, free to give away. Take it as an ePub or a PDF, or as an app you install on your own machine. It works offline, on any device you already own. There is no account, no email, and no price.
Take it with you
Pick an edition, then narrow the table to the format and size you want. Everything here is free, so there is no choice you can get wrong.
Standard Most people
- Footnotes, 67 pages of book outlines, and cross-references after each section heading
- The only edition made in every page size and layout
Reference For study
- Everything the Standard has, plus a topical index of 46,592 topics — for finding what Scripture says on a subject, not just where a word appears
- Two-column tablet and tabloid only: an index that size makes a large book however you set it
Reader’s For reading
- No footnotes, outlines or cross-reference lists — set for reading straight through
- Compact only, because a short line is what suits continuous reading — 580 pages shorter than the Standard compact
The ePub reflows to any screen and is much the smallest download; the PDFs have fixed pages for handwriting, and the annotation editions give a third of the page over to margin you can write in. For handwriting you want an app that does pencil annotation and follows the file’s table of contents — Goodnotes on an iPad, or a reMarkable as it comes. Each PDF is cut to the smallest screen in its class, so every device in that class scales the page up rather than down.
There is also the Lantern Bible app — the same text and typography, installed rather than opened. Free on every platform, and coming soon.
| Edition | Format | Page size & layout | Pages | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | ePub | Reflows to any screen | — | 3.2 MB | Download |
| Standard | Compact · 105×140 mm · Single column | 3,291 | 7.2 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tablet · 148×210 mm · Single column | 1,782 | 6.1 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tablet · 148×210 mm · Two column | 1,338 | 6.2 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tablet · 148×210 mm · Annotation margin | 2,124 | 6.6 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tabloid · 179×265 mm · Single column | 1,305 | 5.7 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tabloid · 179×265 mm · Two column | 928 | 5.7 MB | Download | |
| Standard | Tabloid · 179×265 mm · Annotation margin | 1,508 | 6.0 MB | Download | |
| Reference | ePub | Reflows to any screen | — | 5.1 MB | Download |
| Reference | Tablet · 148×210 mm · Two column | 2,088 | 16.1 MB | Download | |
| Reference | Tabloid · 179×265 mm · Two column | 1,420 | 15.6 MB | Download | |
| Reader’s | ePub | Reflows to any screen | — | 2.7 MB | Download |
| Reader’s | Compact · 105×140 mm · Single column | 2,711 | 7.1 MB | Download |
Page counts are exact and fixed by the build. File sizes are approximate.
Still not sure? Take the Standard ePub — you can always come back for another. One caution if you print: these are whole Bibles, and the shortest edition runs 928 pages. Print the passage you need, not the book.
A whole Bible, made easy to actually use
The Berean Standard Bible is a modern, readable translation that its translators placed in the public domain. This edition takes that text and gives it the navigation, typography and care that a book you read every day deserves.
A complete Bible
- All 66 books and 1,189 chapters, Old and New Testament
- A modern translation, reproduced without alteration
- Footnotes preserved and linked both ways, in the editions that carry them
Built to navigate
- A book-level table of contents that works
- An alphabetical book list, for when you don’t know the order
- Valid anchors on every chapter and verse
Works offline, forever
- Every link resolves inside the file itself
- No account, no server, no connection needed
- A file you own, that cannot be revoked
Set like a real book
- The words of Christ set in blue, in every edition and every format
- Poetry indented at two levels, read from the print edition
- The body face travels with the file, so pages break the same everywhere
- Column widths held to a measured floor, never narrower than reads well
Nothing watching you
- No account to create and no email to hand over
- No telemetry, analytics or tracking of any kind
- We do not know who downloads it, and would rather not
Free to give away
- Public domain — genuinely, not “free to try”
- Copy it, share it, host it on your own church’s site
- No permission or attribution required
Checked, not just converted
An edition of Scripture is worth only as much as its accuracy. Every release is rebuilt from the official text and refuses to publish unless all four of these hold.
Every verse is diffed against the official Berean Standard Bible text before a release is allowed out, and the ePub has to pass the W3C’s own validator with zero errors. That last number is the one worth dwelling on: no link in this book points anywhere but inside it. Nothing to load, nothing to track you, and nothing that stops working the day a website goes down.
Public domain, in earnest
Not a license with conditions attached. The text and this edition of it are both dedicated to the public, permanently.
The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com and the Berean Bible Translation Committee, who dedicated this text of God’s Word to the public domain in April 2023. Attribution is not required of us; we give it gladly.
The typographic design, formatting, navigation structure and linking apparatus prepared for this edition are dedicated to the public domain under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. You may copy, modify and redistribute them, in whole or in part, for any purpose, without permission and without attribution.
The book outlines and the topical index are reproduced from reference works published by Bible Hub and are used by permission; they are not covered by that dedication.
Learn more about the translation at berean.bible.
On your device
The files above are yours today. These are the other ways the same text is coming — an app you install, and the ePub carried by the bookstores you already use.
Everywhere we can list it, it will be listed at no cost. Where a store will not permit a price of zero, we will not be there. Until the listings land, the ePub above is the same file and costs nothing either.
Please give it away
Copy it onto a family member’s tablet. Print a chapter for a study group. Put the files on your church’s own website and never mention where you got them. That is what it is for, and you do not need to ask.
The CC0 dedication waives copyright and related rights in the apparatus this project authored. It does not extend to the book outlines or the topical index, which are reproduced by permission, and it does not grant any rights in the name “The Lantern Bible”, in “Lacy Digital Labs”, or in any associated marks — copy and redistribute the work freely, but publishing a different text under this name would misdescribe it. The Lantern Bible is published as a ministry of Lacy Digital Labs, LLC and is not sold.