bible-web - Read the Word of God from your terminal

bible-web is a set of scripts that uses your pager to output the Word of God in the World English Bible translation.

I picked WEB as the translation because it's the only modern translation of the Bible that is public domain.

This project is a fork of kjv. I simply replaced kjv.tsv with web.tsv after generating it with scripts (which will be posted after some refactoring). https://github.com/bontibon/kjv

I didn't follow the naming convention of naming the project/binary the same as the translation because the word "web" is ambiguous with web browsers. I wanted to be clear with what program you're running when you launch bible-web.

The scripts to generate web.tsv are provided, but they are not needed to use bible-web.

Installation

Edit config.mk to match your local setup. bible-web is installed into /usr/local namespace by default.

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install bible-web (if necessary as root): make clean install

Running bible-web

usage: bible-web [flags] [reference...]

  -l      list books
  -W      no line wrap
  -h      show help

  Reference types:
      <Book>
          Individual book
      <Book>:<Chapter>
          Individual chapter of a book
      <Book>:<Chapter>:<Verse>[,<Verse>]...
          Individual verse(s) of a specific chapter of a book
      <Book>:<Chapter>-<Chapter>
          Range of chapters in a book
      <Book>:<Chapter>:<Verse>-<Verse>
          Range of verses in a book chapter
      <Book>:<Chapter>:<Verse>-<Chapter>:<Verse>
          Range of chapters and verses in a book

      /<Search>
          All verses that match a pattern
      <Book>/<Search>
          All verses in a book that match a pattern
      <Book>:<Chapter>/<Search>
          All verses in a chapter of a book that match a pattern