The Scriptures

"Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise."

2 Nephi 2:8

About

As part of the Mormon Documentation Project, this project's goal is to provide the LDS canon of scriptures in a standardized format for third-party applications.

The Scriptures included are all the standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

King James Version of the Holy Bible

Modern Revelation and Translated Scriptures

See the project tracker for bugs, release status, etc.

View a working demonstration.

Recent News

2008-12-11

I've been working on a 3.0 release, and while it's not completely finished, I have the schema just about completed. You can download the snapshot of the release candidate for MySQL and PostgreSQL here. Once I finish standardizing the schema (should already be complete, just needs some checking), port the exports to other formats and finish the new documentation, the final release will be ready.

This release candidate also fixes a bug where Section 77 of Doctrine and Covenants was missing the text of the answers from the verses.

Please let me know of any issues you have.

Downloads

Downloads are available for Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases, and text exports are available in CSV, Excel, OpenDocument and XML formats.

Documentation

Copyright Status

The scriptures, original works and documentation of this project are all part of the public domain.

No rights are reserved. Simply speaking, this means you can do whatever you'd like with everything here without having to ask for permission. My only personal request is that you treat the Scriptures with respect.

Contact

Any kind of feedback is always appreciated. I'm always interested to hear how people are using the exports, if they are helpful, or if there are any bugs they've found or have any feature requests.

Feel free to contact me directly.