What sacred texts are included in Scripture?

Scripture includes sixteen works: the King James Version Old and New Testaments, KJV Apocrypha, Quran (Pickthall translation), Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, the Four Books of Confucianism (Legge), Tao Te Ching (Legge), Kojiki (Chamberlain), Bundahishn (West), Lotus Sutra (Kern), Arda Viraf (Haug and West), Book of Poetry (Legge), Kalevala (Crawford), and the Poetic Edda (Bellows).

What is the concordance feature?

The concordance is an exact-word occurrence index across all sixteen works. Click an indexed word in the reading pane to see linked records, or open the full concordance overlay. A separate TF-IDF index powers the Related Passages section.

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Does Scripture work on mobile devices?

Yes. Scripture is fully responsive with a mobile-optimized reading pane, touch-friendly verse selection, and adaptive navigation controls.

Quran 24 | Quran

1. Here is a chapter which We have revealed and enjoined, and wherein We have revealed plain tokens, that haply ye may take heed.

2. The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them with a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to God, if ye believe in God and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment.

3. The adulterer shall not marry save an adulteress or an idolatress, and the adulteress none shall marry save an adulterer or an idolater. All that is forbidden unto believers.

4. And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them with eighty stripes and never afterward accept their testimony - They indeed are evil-doers -

5. Save those who afterward repent and make amends. For such lo! God is Forgiving, Merciful.

6. As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, swearing by God that he is of those who speak the truth;

7. And yet a fifth, invoking the curse of God on him if he is of those who lie.

8. And it shall avert the punishment from her if she bear witness before God four times that the thing he saith is indeed false,

9. And a fifth time that the wrath of God be upon her if he speaketh truth.

10. And had it not been for the grace of God and His mercy unto you, and that God is Clement, Wise, ye had been undone.

11. Lo! they who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not a bad thing for you; nay, it is good for you. Unto every man of them will be paid that which he hath earned of the sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be an awful doom.

12. Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth?

13. Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of God.

14. Had it not been for the grace of God and His mercy unto you in the world and the Hereafter an awful doom had overtaken you for that whereof ye murmured.

15. When ye welcomed it with your tongues, and uttered with your mouths that whereof ye had no knowledge, ye counted it a trifle. In the sight of God it is very great.

16. Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee O God! This is awful calumny.

17. God admonisheth you that ye repeat not the like thereof ever, if ye are in truth believers.

18. And He expoundeth unto you the revelations. God is Knower, Wise.

19. Lo! those who love that slander should be spread concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter. God knoweth. Ye know not.

20. Had it not been for the grace of God and His mercy unto you, and that God is Clement, Merciful, ye had been undone.

21. O ye who believe! Follow not the footsteps of the devil. Unto whomsoever followeth the footsteps of the devil, lo! he commandeth filthiness and wrong. Had it not been for the grace of God and His mercy unto you, not one of you would ever have grown pure. But God causeth whom He will to grow. And God is Hearer, Knower.

22. And let not those who possess dignity and ease among you swear not to give to the near of kin and to the needy, and to fugitives for the cause of God. Let them forgive and show indulgence. Yearn ye not that God may forgive you? God is Forgiving, Merciful.

23. Lo! as for those who traduce virtuous, believing women who are careless, cursed are they in the world and the Hereafter. Theirs will be an awful doom

24. On the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet testify against them as to what they used to do,

25. On that day God will pay them their just due, and they will know that God, He is the Manifest Truth.

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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.

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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