Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial

The Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial (BPM) is a complete public domain Bible in modern Brazilian Portuguese, conceived as a Lusophone counterpart to the World English Bible (WEB). It was created to give Portuguese-speaking readers, churches, software developers, and publishers a contemporary Scripture text that could be copied, distributed, remixed, and embedded into any medium without legal restrictions or licensing fees.

Editorial philosophy

Like the WEB, the BPM follows a broadly literal approach that aims to stay close to the underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek while still reading naturally in everyday Brazilian Portuguese. The translation favors clarity, grammatical normalcy, and accessible vocabulary, avoiding the archaic constructions and the elevated register that characterize older Portuguese versions such as the Almeida Revista e Corrigida. Renderings of divine names, key theological terms, and idiomatic Hebraisms typically follow the same conventions adopted by the World English Bible family of translations, which gives the BPM a recognizable feel for readers who move between languages.

Canon and scope

The BPM contains the full sixty-six book Protestant evangelical canon: thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven of the New Testament, with no deuterocanonical or apocryphal material. The text is presented with traditional chapter and verse divisions to make it interoperable with study tools, lectionaries, concordances, and cross-reference systems already in use across Brazilian churches.

Public domain status

The defining feature of the Bíblia Portuguesa Mundial is its public domain release. There is no copyright holder, no licensing committee, and no requirement to ask permission before reproducing the text. Anyone may print, post, broadcast, record, adapt, translate, or build software around the BPM, in whole or in part, for any purpose, including commercial use. This places the BPM in the same legal category as historic public domain Bibles such as the King James Version, but in a form readable to a twenty-first century Brazilian audience.

Use and distribution

Because of its unrestricted license, the BPM has been adopted by digital Bible platforms, mobile applications, audio Bible projects, missionary publishers, and independent ministries that need a Portuguese text they can integrate freely. It is particularly useful for projects that face copyright frictions with the more familiar commercial Portuguese translations, including offline distribution in regions with limited connectivity, educational and academic tools that need to quote Scripture extensively, and developer projects that want to ship a baked-in Bible without negotiating per-platform licenses.

On Midvash the BPM is included as a freely available everyday reading and study Bible, complementing the historic Almeida tradition and the various commercial Brazilian translations. Its open status also makes it a natural baseline for comparative reading, software integration, and any project where licensing certainty matters as much as the quality of the rendering itself.