Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. Mattityahu 10:8 · KWS
The licence, plainly
CC0 1.0 Universal. No rights reserved.
KWS is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 Universal. That is not a permissive licence with conditions attached; it is the waiver of copyright itself, as far as the law allows. There is no attribution requirement, no share-alike clause, no non-commercial restriction, no permission to request, and no one to ask.
Print it and sell it if that is how it reaches someone. Fork the text. Read it aloud and record it. Set it in another typeface. Translate it into a language it has never been in. Ship it inside your own software. None of that needs a licence key, because there is no lock.
Nothing on this page asks anything back. There is no donation button, no tip jar, no supporter tier, no mailing list, no sign-in. The word went out free; it stays free.
CC0 1.0 Universal · no rights reservedThe files
Five formats — the ones a reader or a developer actually reaches for.
Each file below is the complete text: forty-three books, every chapter, every verse. Pick by what you intend to do with it, not by size.
verses/<book>.json holds a flat array of {id, chapter, verse, text}, keyed book.chapter.verse. With books.json, the version file and the hash file alongside.
Two further builds exist — all forty-three books as a single self-contained HTML page, and the same split into one HTML page per book. They are not listed above because the web reader linked below does that job better in a browser. Both sit with everything else at kodeshway.com/kws.
Check what you got
Version 4.1.7, released 2026-10-09. Every hash published.
Text this old deserves to be checkable. A canonical hash is taken over the verse text itself, so any copy of KWS v4.1.7 anywhere — this site, the apps, a mirror, a fork — can be tested against it:
0e4188e57f1d983188053c1e4c46f199a3e04853d2bc0e58e8b7e69eca944947
That value is also published on its own at kodeshway.com/kws/hash.txt, and travels inside the JSON download as hash.txt. It changes only when the verse text changes; a new hash means a new version.
To confirm a particular file arrived intact, take its SHA-256 and compare it with the row below:
shasum -a 256 kws-v4.1.7-full.pdf
| File | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|
| kws-v4.1.7-full.pdf | 2.3 MB | f1219b19ee1e924a6a6edb4ceeed689ff831456c8c1d77616c69d70ebe39bb24 |
| kws-v4.1.7.epub | 1.1 MB | 63419cb5bb9890f5d8905687948a9e9ca63e9531723e901eaa0c1a1b3f9075a7 |
| kws-v4.1.7-full.txt | 3.5 MB | 56c0c7a9518c4c18b7bbfe1478faf4344252e96a7b23c499c8336d8b8d4d9fdc |
| kws-v4.1.7-by-book.txt.zip | 1.1 MB | cbfec767d728190eb53e1ba8f07a748cbc673f54f204289a2b6cb0c4d9653c48 |
| kws-v4.1.7-json.zip | 1.3 MB | 0e0403e2a049c31ce6ad81d63775d3a759347ea32e5d90743328599b11adf6d1 |
The machine-readable list of all seven builds, with sizes and hashes, is manifest.json.
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Yeshayahu 55:1 · KWS
Or read it without downloading anything
The whole text is on the web, free, no account.
Every book and chapter is already published as ordinary web pages at kodeshway.com/scriptures — nothing to install, nothing to sign into. For reading on a phone with audio, highlights and notes, there are the apps: iOS and Apple Watch, and Android and Wear OS.