MacSword2 is a free & open-source application for research and study of God and His Word. It is developed specifically for Mac OS X, and is localised in French, English, German and Swedish.

It allows you to read and browse many different bibles translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons, it also supports searching and advanced features such as services so that you can access the Bible in any program.

MacSword uses the Sword project at http://www.crosswire.org/sword/ . This is an open source project whose purpose is to "to create an ever expanding software package for research and study of God and His Word". This provides the back-end functionality to handle the bible texts and provide features such as searching.

There are now over 200 modules in 50 languages that are all available from the Crosswire Bible Society. The modules include bibles, lexicons, commentaries, books, dictionaries and devotionals.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

� cross-references show again
� footnotes show again
� integration of automatic remote module installer (loads modules from CrossWire website and installs them)
� Finnish localization
� new Spanish localization
� update to Sword version 1.5.11
� Mac OSX 10.4 minimum required (Users of MacOSX 10.3 should stick to MacSword 1.3.x)
� references can now be entered with lowercase again
� bookmarks are saved separately.
� You can delete MacSword prefs now without deleting your bookmarks