Installing Bibles into Downloaded Version

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Ken Vedder

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Mar 22, 2025, 11:08:35 AMMar 22
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Hello!

I was curious if there were any supported methods to add new Bibles translations to the downloaded version besides the repositories that are available by default.

I have some e-sword files that I would like to use, bblx files I think? Is this possible?

If not, Id be open to other ways to import bibles.

Ken

David Instone-Brewer

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Mar 22, 2025, 11:34:14 AMMar 22
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You can add JSword modules into the Downloaded version. So you'd need to convert the e-sword to JSword. 
The converter at https://trumpet-call.org/simplebiblereader/ might work. 
Also edible.org has created https://haiola.org/ which I've used a couple of times but not with e-sword.
I and many others will be very interested to hear how your experiments go. 

All the best
David IB

Ken Vedder

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Mar 22, 2025, 12:25:40 PMMar 22
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Sounds like a challenge. I will report back.

Ken Vedder

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Mar 22, 2025, 2:43:37 PMMar 22
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Simple bible reader imported the bblx file just fine.

Couple more questions, I took the bblx and am not sure what file format jsword is. Would that be a .zip SWORD? Looks like this...
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Where do I add the modules at in the GUI?

Ken Vedder

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Mar 22, 2025, 3:56:40 PMMar 22
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Nevermind, I had to go to my local server console to get the file selector to go.

Still need to know what a jsword file looks like tho.
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