Books & Chapters
A Bible is a tree, not a document. Books hold chapters, chapters hold verses, and every piece — down to a footnote — sits at a known address, so you can reach exactly the part you mean.
The structure
Each translation is a set of books; each book a set of chapters; each chapter a structured tree of verses carrying their text, footnotes, and styling. Nothing is flattened into a blob — the shape of scripture is preserved.
The canon
The full canonical set is here — and translations that carry the deuterocanonical books are handled too, with the standard book codes the Paratext world uses.
Canonical addressing
Every book, chapter, and verse has a canonical USFM address — the same standard identifiers used across the scripture ecosystem. It's what makes "the third chapter of John" a thing your code can point at without ambiguity.
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