Great. That worked.
Thanks a lot brother. I like your sub-topics. Iāll build on those as I expand my database and learn more about obsidian and as I do my personal devotions.
God bless
This thread is awesome. Iām new to Obsidian, and Iām looking to use it as a way to not silo my Bible study notes in a single Bible app (since I use several). @Joschua your kit is awesome! I was able to import the CSB translation without issue.
My one question is how everyone is handling referencing multiple passages (i.e. James 1:1-5). Iām not looking to display them (as Iāve seen the tools people have made for that), but I want to link all the verses in my note, not just the first & last verse in the range.
This is the one thing I havenāt figured out yet that would make this system work for me & any insight would be helpful.
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Hey, @larosajohnson. Glad you enjoy it!
Yeah, embedding and linking to longer passages is still something to solve for me. For now, my lazy reference would just be [[Jam-01#v1]] (to v5). In the backlinks for the chapter I can still see that this note relates to v1ā5.
This is neither smooth nor pretty though. Another idea I had was to use | to have all links between the first and the last show up as a simple hyphen.
Ultimately, Iād love to create a quick script to reference multiple verses quickly.
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A thought I had, and still not as practical and functional or convenient as a script or plugin, is an intermediate verse note.
The title could be [[John v1-v5]], but it wouldnāt exist. You could create it with the individual verses embeddedāa manual process of what the script might do or could do.
This approach also allows you to have notes with verses together in view from different books and chapters.
I like this manual effort because you have to handle and see the verses while creating them. You spend more time with them, which is a good thing.
With automation, you might type [[John v1-v5]] knowing that you see the verses when you preview or click the link, but manually you interact with them one more time.
That grouping of verses note would have its own node in the graph and backlinks.
Just a quick thought.
Thatās not a bad approach @Mike
Maybe when I have some time Iāll look into scripting something. I think Obsidian is what I want to go with long term, just thinking through how it will work with my workflow (currently using NotePlan 3 for most of my note taking thatās not Bible related)
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This might be helpful 
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Thanks! I did see this. I think it can work well for the time being. My main thing is wondering how much work it would be to alter my setup once the Obsidian app is released & this setup wonāt work anymore because of app sandboxing.
Donāt mind me though, Iām just thinking out loud.
This is fantastic! Iām so encouraged to see the activity in this forum and elsewhere about applying PKM methods to studying Scripture.
Question on workflow.
When you read some Scripture, say as part of your daily reading, do you create a separate note that links to the Scripture itself or do you write your thoughts on a given passage right in the Scripture note in the Scripture (WEB) folder itself?
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I have a folder called āBible Study Notesā where I put all my Bible notes. I make them as separate notes and link to the passage Iām studying. My goal is to the leave the Bible folder clean, only containing the Scripture.
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Many thanks for this!
Iād like to use this theme in another vault but I cannot figure out how youāve applied the custom CSS. Thereās nothing in the .obsidian/themes folder. Am I looking in the wrong place?
I made a repository with (empty) files for every chapter of the Bible for anyone who doesnāt need/want to reference/embed each verse. I wanted simple solution to be able to backlink to chapters of the Bible, so I made this:
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Not a bad idea 
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Thanks really handy to have, thanks!
If youāre referring to the theme a couple of posts above, thatās the Minimal theme with a couple of tweaks.
Hi @joebuhlig!
I did some work on this in a fork, @Joschua. You likely donāt want to pull it in directly but I made some adjustments for my own purposes.
This sounds like something that I was really interested in. Would you be willing to show a short video of how this update works in action?
I notice that Bible Gateway is pretty footnote/commentary lightā¦ even on Bibles which (if I recall correctly) require that their notes be reprinted with every reproduction of the Biblical text 
I bring this up because one of the big reasons I wanted to do this was because my gigantic study bible is just too big to read away from a desk and I wanted to read some Bibles with heavy commentary (particularly the NRSV w/ Apocrypha) but if I recall correctly from the other thread, the process requires turning footnotes off? Is there another Bible site to which this can be applied? Iād still like to read the Louis Segond (might help my French) but reallyā¦ some way of turning an ebook into markdown might be easiest, because I think I have ebook versions of one of my bibles. Iāll have to check.
Iām hoping someone can help me with a small problem Iām having with this. I followed all the instructions and was able to grab the ESV from BibleGateway. Unfortunately, even though I have headers set to āfalseā in bg2obs.sh, Iām still getting them in my text. For example, here is what I get for Genesis 8.19:
v19
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.Godās Covenant with Noah
As you can see, the header from BG getās stuck on the end of the previous verse.
Iāve made sure I have the latest version of the bg2md.rb script and bg2obs.sh. Is there anything else I can do to keep these out? Or are any of you good enough with regular expressions to help me remove them all quickly?
Thanks for any help!
Thanks for this - this is going to be really useful to me as a preacher in preparing messages and my own Bible Study - thanks for sharing. Still thinking through how I will use this and I see loads of potential.
I am trying to download the NIV version as this is the version I speak from. I have followed the process on GitHub and it downloads all the folders and files but when I open a file in Obsidian I only get the links as seen in the screenshot below. I am not used to programming so could have missed something obvious. I am also new Obsidian.
I also get the following in Terminal with a load error:
Are you able to help me?
Hey @joshmay , I think you might have missed a small step in the installation.
In the error output you can see cannot load such file -- colorize. That leads me to believe that the colorize module might not be installed. Have a look at the bg2md installation guide or try running sudo gem install colorize optparse clipboard .
Let me know if that worked!
Hi @Joschua, thanks for this. I have run the āsudo gem install colorize optparse clipboardā and this has enabled me to download the files with the actual scripture in them as well.
However although I used the ābash bg2obs.sh -I NIVā command it has downloaded the WEB version ops the Bible.
Here is a screenshot of the commands that I typed and you can see it says āstarting download of WEB Bibleā:
Any thoughts on this?
Thank you