biniama/ethiopic-bible-data

Structured Bible text in Amharic, English, and Ge'ez (Ethiopic), and stored as clean, machine-readable JSON. # Ethiopic Bible Data Structured Bible text in Amharic, English, and Ge'ez (Ethiopic), and stored as clean, machine-readable JSON. ## What's included - **66 books** — 39 Old Testament + 27 New Testament - **3 languages** — Amharic (`am`), English (`en`), Ge'ez (`gez`) - **Per-book JSON files** in `data/old-testament/` and `data/new-testament/` - **Minified distribution bundles** in `minified/` (complete, OT-only, NT-only, with optional gzip and language filtering) - Merged verse metadata for consumer deduplication ## Quick start ### Use the data directly ```python import json with open("data/old-testament/01-genesis.json", encoding="utf-8") as f: genesis = json.load(f) verse = genesis["chapters"][0]["verses"][0] print(verse["text"]["am"]) # Amharic text print(verse["text"]["en"]) # English text ``` ## Project structure ``` data/ old-testament/ 39 per-book JSON files new-testament/ 27 per-book JSON files minified/ Minified bundles (.json and .json.gz) docs/ Documentation ``` ## Documentation - **Data Guide** — Schema reference, code examples, merged verse handling, and book reference tables. Start here if you want to build an app or API with this data. ## License The Bible text is sourced from ethiopicbible.com. Please respect the source site's terms of use.