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The erasmus Online Bible
As a resource for the Christian community at large, we offer the means for incorporating Bible text in your web pages. When including references to Bible verses, without the text of those verses, it would be nice to allow the user to click those references and bring up the text for that verse. Especially when including lists of references, the inclusion of the Bible text can bog down the reading of some pages. Yet, it is useful for the user to be able to immediately bring up the Bible text.

To this end, we have provided the erasmus Online Bible which is designed to allow you to include a way for the users of your site to bring up the text for a given verse reference with a single click. The online Bible is organized by chapter, with the ability to move backwards/forwards to other chapters. This provides the ability to see the verse in context (very important!).

This resource is available for free to everyone and does not require that you or your readers have the erasmus Bible app, register your email, have an account, or any other requirements. However, usage of this resource means that you agree to abide by the erasmus Online Bible terms of use, visible here.

You can link to the Bible text in one of two easy ways:

Normal link to the verse which moves the browser to the page containing the verse. The format of this link is:
<a href="link">your verse reference</a>
For example:
<a href="https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/Gen10.php?v=5">Genesis 10:5</a>
Click here to see what it looks like

Popup link that shows the reference in a popup. The format of this link is:

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('link', '_blank', 'width=500,height=250');">your verse reference</a>
For example:
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/Gen10.php?v=5', '_blank', 'width=300,height=250');">Genesis 10:5</a>
Click here to see what it looks like

There are two types of links: generic and specific. Specific links go to a particular Bible version. This is useful when you are specifically quoting from a given version. Otherwise, you can use a generic reference which will take the user to a modern translation (by default the World English Bible), or to the user's previously-specified preferred version. For specific links, the link format is:

https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/version/reference.php#verse

where "version" is the desired version, "reference" is the Bible book and chapter, and "verse" is the verse number. For instance:

https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/KJV/Gen10.php#5

For generic links, the link format is:

https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/reference.php?v=verse

where "reference" is the Bible book and chapter, and "verse" is the verse number. For example:

https://erasmusbibleapp.com/Bibles/Gen10.php?v=5

Note: the chapter must always be supplied, even for single-chapter books (such as Philemon and Jude). The book names must match one of the following exactly, including case:
Gen
Exo
Lev
Num
Deu
Jos
Judg
Ruth
1Sa
2Sa
1Ki
2Ki
1Chr
2Chr
Ezra
Neh
Esth
Job
Psa
Pro
Ecc
Song
Isa
Jer
Lam
Ezek
Dan
Hos
Joel
Amos
Oba
Jon
Mic
Nah
Hab
Zep
Hag
Zec
Mal
Mat
Mar
Luk
John
Acts
Rom
1Cor
2Cor
Gal
Eph
Phili
Col
1Th
2Th
1Ti
2Ti
Titu
Phile
Heb
Jam
1Pe
2Pe
1Jo
2Jo
3Jo
Jude
Rev

Here are the specific versions you can link directly to:

What to use in links	Description
AKJV	American King James Version
ASV	American Standard Version
BLB	Berean Literal Bible
BRB	Berean Reader's Bible
CPDV	Catholic Public Domain Version
Darby	Darby version
Douay-Rheims	Douay-Rheims version
ERV	English Revised Version
GNV	Geneva Version
KJV	King James Version
RVR	Reina Valera 1909 (Spanish version)
Vulgate	Latin vulgate
WEB	World English Bible
Webster	Webster version
YLT	Young's Literal Translation

Obviously, we can only provide Bible versions that are public domain or otherwise available for free.