Terms of Service
Last updated: 2026-08-26
Verbum (https://legeverbum.com) publishes readings of the Bible and early Christian
literature in their original languages — Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Latin and Ge'ez —
with Chinese and English subtitles and study tools, together with the full text of those
originals to read and search. It also publishes original-language textbooks written by
this site, with lecture videos, notes and quizzes. The service is currently free.
Sources and licensing
- Original-language texts: Public-domain texts. We cannot identify the specific critical edition behind each corpus — the texts come from public digital collections that do not record their upstream edition. Observable characteristics: the Latin matches the Clementine Vulgate (1 John 5:7 carries the Comma Johanneum; orthography ejus/majores); the Greek New Testament matches Westcott–Hort 1881 (John 1:25 reads Ἡλείας). For scholarly citation use a printed critical edition, not this site.
- Chinese: Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation (public domain)
- English: World English Bible (public domain)
- Books outside the 66-book canon (e.g. 1 Enoch): no public-domain Chinese
translation exists, so the Chinese is machine-translated by us (Claude) and has
not been reviewed by a professional translator; the English is R. H. Charles (1917, public
domain). Please check against the original before citing.
- Ge'ez source text: 信望愛 Bible tools (bible.fhl.net)
- Voices: speech-synthesis models trained by us on recordings licensed in writing
from four readers. All four licences expressly waive attribution, so the readers are not
named here.
- Imagery: public-domain artworks and calligraphy backgrounds made by us
- Textbooks: written from scratch by us — explanations, exercises, vocabulary and
slides are our own, and no text or figure is taken from any current textbook; the
example sentences come from the public-domain Vulgate. The ordering of a grammar syllabus
is not itself copyrightable.
Copyright in the finished videos and in the textbooks belongs to the site operator.
Permitted use
You may watch, listen and share links freely, and play the readings publicly in churches,
classrooms and study groups, for personal study, teaching, sermon preparation or research.
If you redistribute the video files themselves or publish edited versions, please credit
Verbum (https://legeverbum.com). For commercial resale, please ask first.
Disclaimer
Pronunciation follows scholarly reconstructions on which specialists still differ. The audio
is machine-synthesised and may contain errors of stress or rare words. Subtitles use
public-domain translations and are not the official text of any church or organisation.
For doctrinal, academic or translational questions, consult the critical editions and
specialist commentaries. Corrections are very welcome through the feedback form.
Changes, governing law, contact
This is a personal project; the operator may add to, change, suspend or discontinue it at any
time. These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Contact: u97001062@gmail.com