1. So when the government of the Empire was about to be assumed, the Grandee Shibi, ancestor of the Grandees of Heguri mixed in the Songs, and took the hand of the beautiful person whom His Augustness Woke was about to wed. This maiden was a daughter of one of the Headmen of Uda, and her name was Ofuwo. Then His Augustness Woke likewise mixed in the Song-Hedge. Thereupon the Grandee Shibi sang, saying: iv "The further fin of the roof of the great palace is bent down at the corner."

2. When he had thus sung, and requested the conclusion of the Song, His Augustness Woke sang, saying: v "It is on account of the great carpenter's awkwardness that it is bent down at the corner."

3. Then the Grandee Shibi sang again, saying: viii"The great lord, on account of the magnanimity of his heart, does not enter and stand in the eight-fold hedge of branches of the child of a grandee."

4. Hereupon the Prince sang again, saying: i "Looking on the breakers of the briny current, I see my spouse standing by the fin of the tunny that comes sporting."

5. Then the Grandee Shibi, getting more and more angry sang, saying: ix "Though the eight-fold hedge of branches of the Prince the Great Lord be made fast at eight places, be made fast all round, 'tis a hedge that shall be cut, 'tis a hedge that shall be burnt."

6. Then the Prince again sang, saying: ii "Oh fisherman that spearest the tunny, the great fish! He being there, thou must be sad at heart, tunny-spearing fisherman!"

7. Having thus sung, the feast was concluded at dawn, and they all retired. Next morning the two Deities, His Augustness Ohoke and His Augustness Woke, took counsel, saying: "All the people of the Court go to Court in the morning, and assemble at Shibi 's gate at noon. So Shibi must surely now be sleeping, and, moreover there will be nobody at the gate. So unless it be now, it were hard to plot against him," and forthwith they at once raised an army, and beleaguered the house of the Grandee Shibi, and slew 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.

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.

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