1. Thereupon his younger brother His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake came, sent to ask for an audience. Then the Heavenly Sovereign caused him to be told these words: As I am in doubt whether perhaps Thine Augustness may not be of like mind with King Sumi-no-ye-no-naka-tsu, I will not meet and speak with thee." His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake replied, saying: "I have no evil intent. I am not of like mind with King Sumi-no-ye-no-naka-tsu." The Heavenly Sovereign again caused him to be told these words: "If that be so, do thou now return down, and slay King Sumi-no-ye-no-naka-tsu, and come up again hither. At that time I will surely meet and speak with thee." So he forthwith returned down to Naniha, and deceived a man named Sobakari, a man-at-arms in the personal service of King Sumi-no-ye-no-naka-tsu, saying: "If thou wilt obey my words, I shall become Heavenly Sovereign, and will make thee prime Minister, to rule the Empire. How would this be?" Sobakari replied, saying "" I will do according to thy command." Then plenteously endowing that man-at-arms, he said: "If that be so, slay the King." Thereupon Sobakari watched for the time when his King went into the privy, and thrust him to death with a spear. So when His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake was making his progress to Yamato taking Sobakari with him, he, on reaching the entrance of the Ohosaka mountain, thought thus: "Although Sobakari deserves very well of me, he has truly slain his lord. This is unrighteous. Nevertheless if I reward not his deed, I may be called untruthful; and if I quite carry out my promise, his intentions are on the contrary to be feared. So, though recompensing his deed, I will destroy his actual person." Therefore he said to Sobakari: "I will halt here to-day and bestow on thee the rank of Prime Minister, and to-morrow will continue my progress up." So a halt was made at the entrance to the mountain, a temporary palace forthwith built, a copious feast suddenly held, the rank of Prime Minister forthwith bestowed on the man-at-arms, and all the officials made to do obeisance to him. The man-at-arms, delighted, thought that he had accomplished his design. Then His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake said to the man-at-arms: "To-day I will drink liquor from the same cup as the Prime Minister." And when they drank together, a bowls large enough to hide the face was filled with the liquor presented. Hereupon the King's child drank first, and the man-at-arms drank afterwards. So when the man-at-arms was drinking, the great cup covered his face. Then His Augustness Midzu-ha-wake drew forth a sabre which he had laid under the matting, and cut off the head of the man-at-arms. Forthwith on the morrow he made his progress up. So the place was called by the name of Chika-tsu-Asuka.

2. Going up and reaching Yamato, he said: "I will halt here to-day and, having purified myself, will go forth to-morrow and worship at the temple of the Deity." So that place is called by the name of Toho-tsu-Asuka. So going forth to the temple of the Deity of Iso-no-kami, he sent to report to the Heavenly Sovereign that he had come up to serve him after accomplishing the work with which he had been entrusted. So the Heavenly Sovereign sent for, and met, and spoke with him.

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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.

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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.

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