About
Begat is a reference to the people, places, and events of the Bible. You can use it to look up who someone’s parents were, which verses name a place, where that place is thought to be today and how sure that identification is, and who else was alive at the same time.
What it is
Every page is computed from openly licensed data: Theographic’s people, places, and events; OpenBible.info’s place identifications; the public-domain texts of the Berean Standard Bible, the King James Version, and the American Standard Version; and Easton’s Bible Dictionary of 1897. Each number comes with the rule that produced it, and the methods page states every rule with an example. The sources page credits each source and its licence.
What it is not
- It is not a commentary. Begat shows what the data records, such as the verses, the years on the traditional chronology, and the family links. It does not interpret them. Where traditions disagree, the disagreement is labelled and no side is taken.
- It is not a Bible reading app. Each chapter has a page with its text, but there is no reading plan, no notes, and no verse search, though typing a reference such as John 3:16 offers that chapter as the first result.
- It is not written by a language model. The only prose on the site is Easton’s, or a short sentence assembled from the data.
Who runs it
Begat is run by a small independent publisher. It has no church, denomination, or ministry behind it.
Corrections and contact
If a fact on a page looks wrong, the cause is usually in the source data, and the methods page lists the issues already known.
Write to [email protected] with the page’s address and what you found. Corrections are checked against the sources before anything changes.