Study from the primary sources

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What is on the shelves

Over a million passages from open, freely-licensed editions. Each result is the stored text itself, with a link back to where it is published.

Torah

Tanakh, Talmud, halakhah, midrash, commentaries, Jewish thought, kabbalah and mussar — about 740,000 passages, mostly Hebrew with English alongside.

Christian

The Gospels, the Church Fathers and the classics of Christian devotion — about 134,000 passages.

Islamic

The Qur’an and the hadith collections — about 42,000 passages.

Buddhist

The Pali canon and the suttas — about 159,000 passages.

Hindu

The canon, the Mahabharata and the Gita — about 23,000 passages.