1. The Lord created man of the earth, and turned him into it again.

2. He gave them few days, and a short time, and power also over the things therein.

3. He endued them with strength by themselves, and made them according to his image,

4. And put the fear of man upon all flesh, and gave him dominion over beasts and fowls.

5. They received the use of the five operations of the Lord, and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

6. Counsel, and a tongue, and eyes, ears, and a heart, gave he them to understand.

7. Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding, and shewed them good and evil.

8. He set his eye upon their hearts, that he might shew them the greatness of his works.

9. He gave them to glory in his marvellous acts for ever, that they might declare his works with understanding.

10. And the elect shall praise his holy name.

11. Beside this he gave them knowledge, and the law of life for an heritage.

12. He made an everlasting covenant with them, and shewed them his judgments.

13. Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice.

14. And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

15. Their ways are ever before him, and shall not be hid from his eyes.

16. Every man from his youth is given to evil; neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony.

17. For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion:

18. Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him.

19. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.

20. None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him, but all their sins are before the Lord

21. But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them.

22. The alms of a man is as a signet with him, and he will keep the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye, and give repentance to his sons and daughters.

23. Afterwards he will rise up and reward them, and render their recompence upon their heads.

24. But unto them that repent, he granted them return, and comforted those that failed in patience.

25. Return unto the Lord, and forsake thy sins, make thy prayer before his face, and offend less.

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About this reader

What is Scripture?

Scripture is a browser-based reader for sixteen sacred texts spanning multiple religious and literary traditions. It provides chapter-by-chapter navigation, full-text search across all works, word concordance with frequency analysis, verse-linked notes, text-to-speech, and deep linking to any chapter or verse.

Traditions Represented

The collection spans Abrahamic, East Asian, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Finnish, and Norse traditions. It includes King James biblical text and Apocrypha, Pickthall's Quran, the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Legge's Four Books, Tao Te Ching, and Book of Poetry, Chamberlain's Kojiki, West's Bundahishn, Kern's Lotus Sutra, Haug and West's Arda Viraf, Crawford's Kalevala, and Bellows' Poetic Edda.

The committed manifests and chapter files currently describe 121 books, 2,724 chapters, and 63,141 verse records. In poetry and prose works, a verse record can represent a line or paragraph rather than a canonically numbered scriptural verse.

Licensing

The application source is AGPL-3.0. Generated text downloads and their structured arrangement are CC BY-SA 4.0; the underlying historic source texts are treated as public-domain inputs. The corpus metadata therefore describes the distributed arrangement with its CC BY-SA license rather than the Public Domain Mark.

Concordance and Related Passages

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index with linked records grouped by work. Related Passages is separate: a TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) cosine-similarity index compares chapter vocabulary after stop-word removal and stores up to five cross-book matches above its threshold. It is a lexical discovery aid, not a claim of historical or theological equivalence.

Deep Linking

Every chapter and verse has a permanent URL. Chapter links follow the pattern /scripture/{work}/{book}-{chapter} (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1 for Genesis 1). Verse links append the verse number (e.g., /scripture/ot/gen-1:26 for Genesis 1:26). These URLs can be shared, bookmarked, or cited directly.

Accessibility

Scripture supports keyboard navigation throughout: Tab moves between controls, Enter activates verse actions, and arrow keys navigate chapters. The reading pane has a skip-to-content link. All overlays (search, concordance) are focus-trapped ARIA dialogs. Dynamic content regions use aria-live for screen reader announcements. Light and dark themes are available through the theme toggle. Verse numbers are visible to assistive technology. No flashing content or motion hazards.

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