A complete AI translation of the Bible — from the original Hebrew and Greek
The Anselm Project Bible (APB) is a complete AI translation of the Bible: all 66 books, rendered from original-language data — per-word Hebrew and Greek lemmas and morphology — rather than paraphrased from existing English versions. Every English word is traceable to a source token, and every decision is shown.
Is there an AI-translated Bible?
Yes — this one. As far as I can determine, the Anselm Project Bible is the first complete AI translation of the entire Protestant canon: all 66 books, Genesis through Revelation, translated from original-language data and published in October 2025. If you know of an earlier complete one, tell me and I will amend this page.
The translation has been rebuilt twice since — a blind translator in December 2025, then a full audit committee in June 2026 — and the work has so far consumed over 1,144,441,434 tokens of AI computation on the translation alone. It is free to read, with no account required. The dated record, and the full story of how it was built, is on the blog: The First Complete AI Translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek.
"A translation where every English word is provably traceable to a source token."The design goal, stated plainly
How an AI committee translates the Bible.
The engine is Grok (grok-4.3, xAI) — but no single pass of any model produces this text. Human Bible translation is done by committees precisely because no single translator can be trusted alone, and the APB borrows that discipline: one model, run as eight separated roles that check each other, with deterministic gates between them that no AI can talk its way past. The point of the structure is to stop the model from cheating.
Why the translator works blind.
Earlier versions of the APB exposed a failure mode unique to translating Scripture with AI: when a model knows the text is the Bible, it quietly imports traditional English readings instead of translating the source. The clearest example was Mark 1:1, where the model added "the Son of God" even though the Greek source data used here lacks the phrase — the model was reciting the Bible it already knew.
The committee's translating stages are therefore never told the text is Scripture. They receive tokens, decoded grammar, lexicon glosses, and neutral structural instructions — never the words "Bible" or "Scripture," never a book name, never a verse reference. The model can often infer what it is reading; that is expected. The enforcement does not depend on keeping it fooled: the grounding contract and the adversarial audit catch and reverse any word that has no source token, whether the model recognized the text or not.
What AI translation is — and isn't.
This is not a claim that AI translates better than the great human committees. It is an experiment in a different virtue: showing work at a scale no human committee could publish. Where a human translation asks for trust in its scholars, the APB asks for no trust at all — every rendering carries its receipts, and the reader is the final auditor.
The AI here is a research assistant, never an oracle. It never gets the last word — the deterministic gates, the adversarial audit, and ultimately the reader do. Where the text demands a judgment call, the alternatives and the reasoning are recorded rather than hidden.
Every word shows its work.
In the reader, any verse opens into its original text: the Hebrew or Greek, the parsing of every word, cross-references, and the translation record. The same source data feeds a lexicon of every lemma in the biblical corpus, an atlas of every place, and an audio Bible in English, Hebrew, and Greek.
Questions about the APB.
Is there an AI-translated Bible?
Yes. As far as I can determine, the Anselm Project Bible is the first complete AI translation of the entire Protestant canon — all 66 books, translated from original-language data and published in October 2025. If you know of an earlier complete one, tell me and I'll amend this page.
Is it a real translation or a paraphrase of existing English Bibles?
It is translated from per-word Hebrew and Greek lemma and morphology data, not rewritten from an existing English version. The translating model works blind — it is never told the text is Scripture — and an adversarial audit reverses any English word that has no source token, precisely to keep traditional English renderings from leaking in.
What is it translated from?
The Hebrew Bible text and morphology come from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, based on the Westminster Leningrad Codex. The New Testament comes from the SBL Greek New Testament with MorphGNT morphological analysis.
Which AI does the translating?
Every stage runs on Grok (grok-4.3, xAI) — but no single pass of any model produces the text. Grok is run as eight separated roles — philologist, annotator, translator, selector, auditor, terminology editor, stylist, proofreader — with deterministic gates between them, a structure designed to stop the model from cheating.
Can AI translate the Bible accurately?
It can translate what the source tokens say — and prove that it did. Where a passage requires a judgment call, the alternatives and the reasoning are recorded and shown in the reader, so the reader can weigh the decision rather than trust it.
How is this different from AI-assisted Bible translation projects?
Most such efforts use AI to speed up human translation committees, usually for languages that lack a Bible. The Anselm Project Bible inverts that: an AI committee produces the translation under deterministic checks, and the human — every reader — audits it. The two approaches answer different questions.
Is it free to read?
Yes. The full text, the audio Bible in English, Hebrew, and Greek, the lexicon, and the atlas are free, with no account required.
Read it for yourself.
The full text, the audio Bible, the lexicon, and the atlas are free and open to everyone — no account required. Weigh the translation against its sources; that is what it was built for.