World English Bible · public domain · copied, never composed
Scripture,
and everything under it.
A quiet reader for the Bible, set as a printed edition: the text in the column and, in the margin, only what can be shown — where these places actually are, what the translators themselves flagged, where the same words come back. Every claim says how to check it, and every chapter ends with a question instead of a next thing.
Books about outsiders
Six short books, 393 verses in all. The shelf, and why each one is here.
Why it is called Inclusio
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:2 · God’s first words in the book
48 verses
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
Jonah 4:11 · God’s last words in the book
A passage that closes on the words it opened with is an inclusio. Everything Jonah does happens inside that bracket — and noticing the shape is most of the work.
What this site does, and does not do
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Scripture is copied, never composed
Every verse is read from a vendored public-domain file whose checksum is verified on every build. No model writes, completes or paraphrases a word of it.
Where the text came from -
Every note says how to check it
A count you can recount, a distance computed from named coordinates, a translators’ own footnote, or a disagreement left standing. There is no fifth kind.
What this site will not do -
It ends, on purpose
No streak, no score, no next thing waiting to catch you. Each chapter closes with one question and room to answer it, and the way onward is deliberately slow.
About this project