BibleNLP Corpus

The Partnership for Applied Biblical NLP (bible-nlp)

Type: corpus
Venue: Hugging Face / BibleNLP
Year: 2026
Source: huggingface
Access: free
Language: 833 languages
Added: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.671617+00:00
Verified: 2026-07-17T20:18:03.671617+00:00

Summary

A corpus of partial and complete Bible translations in 833 languages, aligned by verse, totaling approximately 5.18 GB with 1-10 million verse records. Each record contains verse-aligned translations with language codes (ISO 693-3), file references, verse references, and per-file license and copyright information. The corpus is sourced from the eBible corpus on GitHub and is designed for translation tasks and cross-lingual biblical NLP research.

Keywords

bible translation multilingual verse-aligned biblical-nlp cross-lingual corpus

Topics

NLP / Translation / Religion

Research notes

Published by bible-nlp (The Partnership for Applied Biblical NLP) on HuggingFace. Sources from github.com/BibleNLP/ebible-corpus. Requires custom loading script (tqdm, ijson, numpy).