#41

Thank you @Harvison, glad to hear it is helpful for you!

#42

Thank you for this. Can someone please provide step-by-step instructions on how to get this to work with Windows. I want to download the NIV.

Please I am really looking to grow my faith and this is the exact tool that I need to dive deeper into my bible study.

#43

Hi Joschua,

I appreciate the work youā€™re putting into this project! I just wanted to comment and say that while reading about it, I immediately thought of the Thompson Chain-Reference Bibles. Iā€™m not sure if youā€™re familiar with them. Thompson included lots of numbers which refer to different people, places, and concepts, then listed those numbers and topics in the margins of his bible when they came up in the text, and included a numerical index in the back to point you to the start of a numerical thread which sought to tie those references together with all the pertinent passages in the bible. Iā€™m not sure what the copyright situation is, but I thought the concept (and Thompsonā€™s work) could be a valuable asset to you as a reference document. Thanks for the work youā€™re doing, and I look forward to seeing more!

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#44

This is what I used to get it to work in Windows 10. Hope it helps

First, install Ruby. You can use instructions here Install Ruby on Windows: Everything You Need to Get Going ā€“ Stackify. I followed the Ruby Installer option and you can stop once you see the version number for the ā€˜ruby -vā€™ command

Then, get all needed gems installed. In command prompt or powershell, use ā€˜gem install (gemname)ā€™ and ā€˜gem listā€™ to check what you already have. I had to install ā€˜colorizeā€™, ā€˜optparseā€™, ā€˜clipboardā€™ and ā€˜ffiā€™

Next, install Git from Git - Downloading Package

In command prompt or powershell, do ā€˜git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/joebuhlig/BibleGateway-to-Obsidian.gitā€™

Once project is cloned, you can open bg2obs.sh in a text editor like Notepad and update the options in the beginning of the file. This is where you can change the translation to NIV

I also had to remove the ā€˜xā€™ in line 31

You can then run the script in command prompt like ā€˜./bg2obs.shā€™ and it will open up a bash window to run. The window will be blank if things are going well or will display errors.

Note: the script uses the clipboard to get the Bible data, so copy paste wonā€™t function right elsewhere while the script is running since it is constantly coping new chapters

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#45

Many thanks Joschua thats awesomeā€¦May I ask what version of the Bible did you use? many thanks ā€¦

#46

Hey @vincit, I use the World English Bible, mostly because it isnā€™t copyright restricted!

#47

Hi, I am new here and not an IT person, so pardon me for some ignorance. So, I have downloaded the kit into my MacBook. So how do I bring it into my Obsidian App?

#48

Hey @kinyua! Thanks for downloading the kit.

After downloading the kit, you navigate to your downloads folder and unpack the .zip file (usually by double-clicking it). Then you open your Obsidian app. On the left hand side there is an icon with a vault and through clicking on it, you can open another vault. Navigate to the folder where you unpacked the .zip file and select the Bible Study Kit folder.

Now the kit should open in Obsidian in another window. :tada:

Let me know if that worked!

#49

Great. That worked.

Thanks a lot brother. I like your sub-topics. Iā€™ll build on those as I expand my database and learn more about obsidian and as I do my personal devotions.

God bless

#50

This thread is awesome. Iā€™m new to Obsidian, and Iā€™m 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). Iā€™m not looking to display them (as Iā€™ve 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 havenā€™t figured out yet that would make this system work for me & any insight would be helpful.

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#51

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 v1ā€“5.

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.

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Ultimately, Iā€™d love to create a quick script to reference multiple verses quickly.

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#52

@larosajohnson and @Joschua

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 wouldnā€™t exist. You could create it with the individual verses embeddedā€”a 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.

#53

Thatā€™s not a bad approach @Mike

Maybe when I have some time Iā€™ll 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 thatā€™s not Bible related)

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#54

This might be helpful :smiley:

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#55

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 wonā€™t work anymore because of app sandboxing.

Donā€™t mind me though, Iā€™m just thinking out loud.

#56

This is fantastic! Iā€™m 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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#57

I have a folder called ā€œBible Study Notesā€ where I put all my Bible notes. I make them as separate notes and link to the passage Iā€™m studying. My goal is to the leave the Bible folder clean, only containing the Scripture.

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#58

Many thanks for this!

Iā€™d like to use this theme in another vault but I cannot figure out how youā€™ve applied the custom CSS. Thereā€™s nothing in the .obsidian/themes folder. Am I looking in the wrong place?

#59

I made a repository with (empty) files for every chapter of the Bible for anyone who doesnā€™t 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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#60

Not a bad idea :+1:

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