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Vigilant Word (Complete Edition) — in this edition's reading order, Genesis first.
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Kata Iōannēn (John)
Chapter 1 · Vigilant Word (Complete Edition)
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Bible versions — public domain and freely licensed
Three versions are built into this reader: the American Standard Version, the Berean Standard Bible, and the King James Version with Apocrypha. Forty-seven more stand in the version library: their texts are not stored in the app, but are fetched on demand the first time you open one — most from Bolls, a free public Bible library, and the classic English shelf from a public archive of public-domain Bible texts — and kept only for the rest of your visit. Every shelf row names the version's tradition, and the shelf now spans them: Catholic readers have the Douay-Rheims Bible, the Catholic Public Domain Version and Wycliffe's pre-Reformation Bible; Protestant readers the Geneva Bible, Darby (in his own French), Webster, Tyndale, Rotherham and the King James stream in its Updated and Restored Name forms; Jewish readers the JPS Tanakh of 1917 beside the Hebrew codices; the Syriac churches the Peshitta New Testament; the Eastern Orthodox the Septuagint, the Byzantine Greek text, and Bibles in Church Slavonic and Russian; and Europe's historic Protestant churches their own Bibles in French, German, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian and Ukrainian. Two modern versions join under Creative Commons licences — the Literal Standard Version and Pickering's New Testament. Two traditions have no separate translation to add, and the shelf does not invent one: the Latter-day Saint churches read the Bible in the King James Version, which was also the historic Bible of the Pentecostal churches — the King James on this shelf is their Bible, and its shelf row says so.
Among the forty-seven are also the Hebrew Scriptures in the Aleppo Codex as well as the Leningrad Codex; the New Testament in Greek in two critical editions, and in Hebrew; whole Bibles in Arabic and Persian; and the oldest nearly complete New Testaments of all — Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, in a text-critical translation made for this reader, with each codex's own readings translated and marked † wherever they differ from the usual text. Select any of them in the reader's Bible translation picker for chapter-by-chapter reading — the reader switches to it at the same book and chapter — or select any verse and use Compare verse to see that verse in the Vigilant Word and in each version side by side. Wherever the versions are listed — the reader's translation picker, the verse comparison, and this shelf — they stand in alphabetical order, with the Vigilant Word itself first in the picker, where it is the default.
Still set aside — and why
Some public-domain versions are still not in this reader, each for a stated reason. The archive's file of Darby's English Bible is corrupt — words run together throughout (“beginningGod”, “ForGod”) — so Darby stands on the shelf in his own French instead. The Bible in Basic English is still in copyright and is not carried. The American King James Version is offered for free distribution only, rather than placed in the public domain, so it is set aside on licence grounds; the King James stream stands on the shelf in its Updated and Restored Name forms. For Leeser's Tanakh (1853), Julia Smith's Bible (1876), the Living Oracles New Testament (1835), the Emphatic Diaglott (1864), Weymouth's New Testament (1903) and Ferrar Fenton's Bible (1903), no verified clean machine-readable copy has been found in either library. The Sahidic Coptic New Testament's licence still needs one check, and no verified clean copy of the complete Peshitta Old Testament or a complete Coptic Old Testament exists to add. The modern versions in copyright — the ESV, NIV, New King James and their like — are listed by the public libraries, but a listing is not a licence; and replacing only the verses where such a version differs would still leave the copyrighted translation itself, so they are not carried either. The Septuagint itself underlies much of this edition's own Old Testament text.
What's new in Beta 1.0
- On-device remembering — your reading place, highlights, bookmarks, notes, prayer list, streak and settings are saved in this browser on this device and restored when you return; nothing leaves the device
- Highlights in four colours, bookmarks, and private verse notes
- Verse images and verse sharing
- Listen — any chapter read aloud
- A prayer list and a guided prayer
- A reading streak, badges, and thirteen reading plans
- Verse-level comparison — one verse across every version on the shelf, each under its own numbering
- Every version on the shelf readable in the reader itself — pick a translation and the reader switches to it at the same book and chapter; the American Standard Version, the Berean Standard Bible, and the King James Version with Apocrypha are built in
- The version library — forty-seven more versions fetched on demand when you open them, now spanning the traditions: Catholic (Douay-Rheims, Catholic Public Domain Version, Wycliffe), Protestant classics (Geneva, Darby in French, Webster, Tyndale, Rotherham, the King James stream), Jewish (the JPS Tanakh beside the Hebrew codices), Syriac (the Peshitta New Testament), Orthodox (the Septuagint, the Byzantine Greek text, Church Slavonic and Russian Bibles), and the historic Bibles of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine — with the King James standing as the Bible of Latter-day Saint and Pentecostal readers, and Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus in a text-critical translation made for this reader
About Vigilant Word
The Vigilant Word of the LORD is a multi-volume Bible edition whose Old Testament text follows, in order of preference, the Dead Sea Scrolls, then the Septuagint, then the Masoretic Text. Alongside the canon it prints the apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and for Book Two the New Testament together with the New Testament apocrypha and writings of the early church — 183 books in all.
Speech is colour-coded throughout: God in gold, Jesus in red, angels in blue, Satan / the devil in burnt orange, and demons in brown. Divine names are printed transliterated, in full capitals and bold, following each text's original language. In the reader, tap any word for its word study, and tap a verse number to select and copy the verse.
Published by Vigilant Word · © 2026 Vigilant Word. The editor's own work on the edition is © 2026 Vigilant Word.
Beta 1.0 · Versions for comparison
This is the official Beta 1.0 of the public reader. The American Standard Version, the Berean Standard Bible, and the King James Version with Apocrypha are built into the reader; forty-seven more versions stand in an on-demand library and are fetched from free public Bible libraries when you first open them, rather than stored in the app. They span the traditions — the Catholic Douay-Rheims, Catholic Public Domain Version and Wycliffe Bibles; the Protestant Geneva, Darby (in French), Webster, Tyndale and Rotherham Bibles and the King James stream; the Jewish JPS Tanakh beside the Westminster Leningrad and Aleppo codices; the Syriac Peshitta New Testament; the Greek Septuagint and Byzantine text; Brenton's English Septuagint; the SBL and Tischendorf Greek Testaments and the Textus Receptus; a Hebrew New Testament; whole Bibles in Arabic, Persian, Russian, Church Slavonic, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian and Ukrainian; the World English Bible and Young's Literal Translation; and two modern versions under Creative Commons licences, the Literal Standard Version and Pickering's New Testament. The King James Version on the shelf is also the Bible of the Latter-day Saint churches in English and the historic Bible of the Pentecostal churches. The library's oldest witnesses are Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, in a text-critical translation made for this reader: where either codex reads differently from the usual text, its own reading is translated and marked †. Find them all in the reader's translation picker, in the Library tab, and in verse-level comparison — select any verse in the reader and tap Compare verse to see that verse in the edition and in every version that carries it, each labelled with its own reference even where the numbering differs.
How the text is ordered
- Genesis first — the reading order opens with Berěshith (Genesis), then 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch, then the edition's order unchanged.
- The gospels in their places — among the infancy gospels, the Latin Infancy Gospel stands before the Arabic Infancy Gospel; and the Gospel of Peter stands after Luke, following Mark, Matthew, John and Luke.
- Genesis 1:1–2 is read as one construction: “When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while the Spirit of ʾĔLŌHĪM was hovering over the face of the waters.”
- Books without chapter divisions in the edition are presented as a single chapter; where a book's printed numbering restarts, the reader shows the printed chapter title.
Deployment package · vigilantword.app
The complete app, copied out as one ZIP for Cloudflare Pages: index.html at the top level and the full assets folder beside it — the whole edition library merged into six data packs (the 184 book files packed as books-1 to books-6), the manifest and word-study data, the three built-in translations (ASV, BSB, KJVA), and the emblem and splash artwork. 14 files, 7.6 MB — repacked from the old 192-file package, so the upload stages the way the website's did.
This build carries the book-picker fix: dropdown entries now lead with the familiar name — “Genesis — Berěshith (Genesis)” — the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary no longer answers to “Genesis”, and the six second listings are marked “(second listing — same text)”, so every one of the 183 entries selects exactly the book it names. It also carries the corrected gospel order: the Latin Infancy Gospel before the Arabic Infancy Gospel, and the Gospel of Peter after Luke. And it carries on-device remembering: the reader saves your place, highlights, bookmarks, notes, prayers, streak and settings in the browser on the device itself, so they are still there when you come back.
For vigilantword.app: replace the ZIP in the vigilantword-app GitHub repository with this one and Cloudflare Pages redeploys the app itself. The file name inside the ZIP is unchanged, so the repository's build command needs no change.
The package is 7.6 MB — on a phone or tablet it lands in your Downloads / Files.