1 Esdras — Book Source

Translation profile

Language: English. Collection scope: bible apocrypha.

Editor: Robert Adam Boyd

The publisher explicitly identifies this exact source edition as public domain. Source introduction identifies Robert Adam Boyd, November 2025. This is the ASV revised to the Byzantine New Testament text with the source apocryphal collection. The source Psalms of Solomon adaptation is published as a separate edition of that work, rather than duplicated here. Source package and record are retained with SHA 256 provenance. Source labels and primary words are retained; separate introductions, headings, notes and cross-references are not merged into verse text.

American Standard Version Byzantine Text; source changes by Adam Boyd, public-domain dedication2021.

Spirit Nation normalized source USFM formatting/whitespace and separated headings/notes for reading. This distinct source snapshot checked2026-10-18 follows current source John6:5; all other primary text and reference labels are unchanged. Snapshot date is not a new translation publication year.

Source chapter and verse labels, including lettered or ranged segments, are preserved. No verified word-level or cross-edition verse equivalence is asserted.

Read the Public domain — publisher dedication license.

The rights statement answers a reuse question; it does not remove the need to compare translation choices, textual traditions, book order, and verse numbering. Spirit Nation keeps this edition identified on every chapter.

Review the external source record for ASVBT-SRC-20261018.

Edition coverage

Source introduction identifies Robert Adam Boyd, November 2025. This is the ASV revised to the Byzantine New Testament text with the source apocryphal collection. The source Psalms of Solomon adaptation is published as a separate edition of that work, rather than duplicated here. This separately identified current-source snapshot changes John6:5 only; all other installed primary text and references remain byte-for-byte identical at the JSON value level.

Books available in ASVBT-SRC-20261018

Apocrypha

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