1. Ha. Mim.

2. By the Scripture that maketh plain

3. Lo! We revealed it on a blessed night - Lo! We are ever warning -

4. Whereon every wise command is made clear

5. As a command from Our presence - Lo! We are ever sending -

6. A mercy from thy Lord. Lo! He, even He is the Hearer, the Knower,

7. Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if ye would be sure.

8. There is no God save Him. He quickeneth and giveth death; your Lord and Lord of your forefathers.

9. Nay, but they play in doubt.

10. But watch thou O Mohammed for the day when the sky will produce visible smoke

11. That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment.

12. Then they will say: Our Lord relieve us of the torment. Lo! we are believers.

13. How can there be remembrance for them, when a messenger making plain the Truth had already come unto them,

14. And they had turned away from him and said: One taught by others, a madman?

15. Lo! We withdraw the torment a little. Lo! ye return to disbelief.

16. On the day when We shall seize them with the greater seizure, then in truth We shall punish.

17. And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger,

18. Saying: Give up to me the slaves of God. Lo! I am a faithful messenger unto you.

19. And saying: Be not proud against God. Lo! I bring you a clear warrant.

20. And lo! I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord lest ye stone me to death.

21. And if ye put no faith in me, then let me go.

22. And he cried unto his Lord, saying: These are guilty folk.

23. Then his Lord commanded: Take away My slaves by night. Lo! ye will be followed,

24. And leave the sea behind at rest, for lo! they are a drowned host.

25. How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind,

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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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