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Each tradition page lists what Divine Reader holds, in which translation and language, and how complete it is.

Judaism

The Torah — the five books of Moses — read in the 1917 JPS translation with the Hebrew Masoretic text alongside.

The Torah · 187 chapters

Christianity

The complete Bible in the King James Version: 66 books, 1,189 chapters, with the translators' marginal notes kept separate from the text.

The Bible · 1,189 chapters

Islam

Twenty-six surahs of the Qur'an in Marmaduke Pickthall's English translation (1930), with the Arabic Uthmani text alongside.

The Qur'an · 26 surahs

Hinduism

Selections from all eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita in Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation, The Song Celestial.

Bhagavad Gita · 18 chapters

Buddhism

Short readings from each part of the Pali Canon — Vinaya, the five Nikayas and the Abhidhamma — retold in plain English.

The Tipitaka (selections) · 7 readings

Taoism

All eighty-one chapters of the Tao Te Ching in James Legge's 1891 translation.

Tao Te Ching · 81 chapters

Shinto

The Kojiki, Japan's oldest chronicle: the preface and seven condensed episodes from the Age of the Gods to the first emperors.

The Kojiki (selections) · 8 episodes

Bahá'í Faith

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is planned; it will be added only with an authorised text.

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