lguenth / mdbible

English Standard Version (ESV) Bible as Plain Text/Markdown files

mdbible – ESV Bible in Markdown 📖

English Standard Version (ESV) bible as plain text files with (very slight) Markdown formatting. Created and parsed from Javascripture's JSON file.

In by_book/ you will find one Markdown file for each book. The book titles are formatted as H1 and the chapters as H2 headings. The verses are numbered.

In by_chapter/ you will find directories for each book with one Markdown file for each chapter.

Want something formatted differently? Tweak the scripts or ask me. Want one of the other bible versions from Javascriptures? I might add them later... But if you don't want to wait: Again, edit the script and open a pull request if you want. Or ask nicely. 😉

Disclaimer:

Please open an issue if you think I parsed something wrong... I haven't looked inside a bible in years. And I never had an English edition. The JSON contained some peculiarities, so I tried my best. This project was created for a kind stranger in the Obsidian Discord community. (Good editor, btw.)

mdbible's Issues

by_verse feature

Hey there!
You said we could ask nicely if we had any further requests :) Could you do me a favor and add a "by_verse" of the ESV? That would be amazing. I saw many people on the Obsidian forum looking for a MD version of the ESV with a single md file for each verse, so I think it's not only me who is looking for sth like that.
I do studies often on single verses and that way I could reference them easily and do a nice analysis with the graph view later on.
Thank you! Georg

P.S. I prefer having it formatted without a dot after the verse number, but that would be optional :)
e.g.: 1 In the beginning [...] instead of 1. In the beginning [...]