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Today · Wednesday 21 October
Maronite
Gospel · Lucas 19:11-28
Roman
Gospel · Luke 12:39-48
Coptic Orthodox
Gospel · John 10:1-16
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301 editions in 27 languages, open today.

Every edition below is one you can open right now. Word by word, with the sound and the meaning under each word: Hebrew, Biblical Aramaic, English, Spanish, Arabic, Greek and Chinese. The library grows one edition at a time.
  • Hebrew
    word by word
    Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible
    תפילות
  • Biblical Aramaic
    word by word
    OSHB Aramaic Passages
  • English
    word by word
    Tyndale New Testament 1534
    Douay-Rheims 1899
    King James Version
    Berean Standard Bible
    Jowett, third edition 1892
    Shorey, Loeb 1935–1937
    Jowett, third edition 1892
    Lamb, Loeb 1924
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Jebb, Cambridge 1891
    The Song Celestial (Edwin Arnold, 1885)
    Kisari Mohan Ganguli, 1883–1896
    The Meaning of the Glorious Qur’an — Pickthall, 1930
    Griffith, second edition 1896
    Motte, American edition 1846
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — Manmohan Singh, English
    Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
    The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII (Benziger, 1903)
    Adam Smith — Moral Sentiments (Dublin, 1777)
    Adam Smith — Wealth of Nations (Gutenberg)
    Traditional prayers
    Butler's prose Iliad, 1898
    Butler's prose Odyssey, 1900
    Macaulay, 1890
    First edition, 1859
    Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I.1 (1886)
    Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Benziger, 1947) — Part I
    Dods, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers I.2 (1887)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (English)
    The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution and its Amendments (National Archives transcriptions)
    Proslogium, tr. Sidney Norton Deane (Chicago: Open Court, 1903)
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Athenian Society, London 1912
    Edghill, Project Gutenberg 2412 (Categories)
    Chase, Everyman's Library (Nicomachean Ethics)
    Butcher, Macmillan (Poetics)
    Ellis, Everyman's Library (Politics)
    Pride and Prejudice, ed. R. W. Chapman, as Project Gutenberg's ebook 42671 sets it (1813 title pages; impression not named)
    Novum Organum, ed. Joseph Devey (New York: Collier, 1902)
    Heart of Darkness (Project Gutenberg 219)
    Discourse on the Method, tr. John Veitch (Project Gutenberg)
    Six Metaphysical Meditations, tr. William Molyneux (London: Benj. Tooke, 1680)
    Poems, Series One to Three, ed. Todd and Higginson (Project Gutenberg 2678, 2679, 12241)
    The Brothers Karamazov, tr. Constance Garnett (1912)
    Crime and Punishment, tr. Constance Garnett (1914)
    The Idiot, tr. Constance Garnett (1913)
    Notes from Underground, tr. Constance Garnett (1918)
    My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), appendix of speeches — Frederick Douglass
    The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
    On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, tr. Perrett and Jeffery (1923) — Fourmilab
    Relativity: The Special and General Theory, tr. Robert W. Lawson (1920)
    Prufrock and Other Observations; The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot (Project Gutenberg 1459, 1321)
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    Coleridge, Bell 1906
    The Federalist Papers, Constitution Society text (Project Gutenberg 1404)
    A Simple Soul, English (translator and printing not named; Gutenberg #1253)
    Beyond the Pleasure Principle, tr. C. J. M. Hubback (London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922)
    A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, authorized translation with a preface by G. Stanley Hall (New York: Horace Liveright, 1920)
    Faust. Eine Tragödie — Cotta, Tübingen 1808
    The Sorrows of Young Werther, tr. R. D. Boylan (1854)
    Household Tales, tr. Margaret Hunt (1884)
    Motion of the Heart and Blood, tr. Robert Willis (1847)
    The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), as Project Gutenberg's ebook 25344 sets it
    Book of Songs, tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring (1859)
    A Treatise of Human Nature (Project Gutenberg 4705)
    Treatise on Light, tr. Silvanus P. Thompson (University of Chicago Press)
    Critique of Practical Reason, tr. T. K. Abbott (1873)
    Critique of Pure Reason, tr. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)
    Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, tr. T. K. Abbott (1873)
    Perpetual Peace, tr. M. Campbell Smith (1903)
    Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, tr. Paul Carus (1902)
    The Fables of La Fontaine, tr. Elizur Wright, new edition with notes by J. W. M. Gibbs (1882)
    Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, tr. J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (1871)
    The Princess of Cleves, English (translator and printing not named; Gutenberg #467)
    Elements of Chemistry, tr. Robert Kerr (Edinburgh, 1790)
    Discourse on Metaphysics, tr. George R. Montgomery (Chicago: Open Court, 1908)
    Monadology, tr. Robert Latta (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898)
    Speeches — The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Constitutional Edition (ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley)
    Of the Nature of Things, tr. William Ellery Leonard (1916)
    Death in Venice, tr. Kenneth Burke (The Dial, 1924)
    The Communist Manifesto, tr. Samuel Moore (1888)
    Benito Cereno, in The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856)
    The Misanthrope, tr. Curtis Hidden Page (1908; Wikisource transcription)
    Essays, tr. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazlitt (1877)
    The Antichrist, tr. H. L. Mencken (1923)
    Beyond Good and Evil, tr. Helen Zimmern (1907)
    The Birth of Tragedy, tr. William A. Haussmann (1910)
    Ecce Homo, tr. Anthony M. Ludovici (1911)
    The Twilight of the Idols, tr. Anthony M. Ludovici (1911)
    Thus Spake Zarathustra, tr. Thomas Common (1909)
    Pensées, tr. W. F. Trotter (Harvard Classics, 1910)
    Lamb, Loeb 1925
    Fowler, Loeb 1926
    Fowler, Loeb 1914
    Lamb, Loeb 1924
    Fowler, Loeb 1921
    Lamb, Loeb 1925
    Fowler, Loeb 1921
    Bury, Loeb 1929
    Phaedra, tr. Robert Bruce Boswell (printing not named; Project Gutenberg 1977)
    Herbert Giles, Shanghai 1900
    The Robbers, tr. Henry G. Bohn (1849)
    Wilhelm Tell, tr. Theodore Martin (1847)
    The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims, tr. T. Bailey Saunders (1890)
    The World as Will and Idea, tr. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1909 printing)
    Jebb, Cambridge 1896
    Jebb, Cambridge 1894
    Jebb, Cambridge 1889
    Jebb, Cambridge 1887
    Jebb, Cambridge 1898
    Jebb, Cambridge 1892
    The Ethics, tr. R. H. M. Elwes (Project Gutenberg #3800; printing not named)
    Harmonium, by Wallace Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; Project Gutenberg 78743)
    Lionel Giles, London 1910
    Gulliver's Travels (Project Gutenberg 829)
    Herbert Giles, Gems of Chinese Literature, Shanghai 1922
    History of the Peloponnesian War, tr. Richard Crawley (1874)
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, as Project Gutenberg's ebook 76 sets it (E. W. Kemble's illustrations; no printing named)
    The Aeneid of Virgil, tr. Theodore C. Williams (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910)
    Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Project Gutenberg 2376)
    Mrs. Dalloway, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (Project Gutenberg 71865)
    Poems, six books, 1903–1928, by W. B. Yeats (Project Gutenberg 32233, 30488, 36865, 32491, 72987, 72985)
  • Spanish
    word by word
    Reina-Valera 1909
    Torres Amat 1825
    Palabra de Dios para ti
    Versión Biblia Libre
    La Biblia en Español Sencillo
    Qurbono 2005 (Spanish working draft)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón VII–VIII (1872)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón IV (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón I (1871)
    Azcárate, Obras completas de Platón V (1871)
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — traducción de SikhNet
    Texto autógrafo · Ignacio de Loyola
    Oraciones tradicionales
  • Arabic
    word by word
    Van Dyck
    Qurbono 2005 (Arabic)
    Tanzil Uthmani text, version 1.1
    صلوات تقليدية
  • Greek
    word by word
    Tischendorf Greek New Testament
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera IV)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Προσευχαί
    Monro & Allen, Oxford Classical Texts (Homeri Opera I–II)
    Murray, Loeb Classical Library (The Odyssey, Greek text)
    Godley, Loeb Classical Library (Herodotus, Greek text)
    Heiberg, Euclidis Opera Omnia I–V (Teubner, 1883–1888)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1926 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Smyth, Loeb 1922 (Greek)
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1906
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1906
    Hall and Geldart, Oxford 1907
    Bekker, Oxford 1837 (Aristotelis Opera, vol. 1, Categories)
    Bywater, Oxford Classical Texts (Ethica Nicomachea)
    Bekker, Oxford 1837 (Aristotelis Opera, vol. 1, De interpretatione)
    Bekker, Oxford 1837 (Aristotelis Opera, vol. 11)
    Ross, Oxford Classical Texts (Politics, 1957)
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1913
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1902
    Murray, Oxford 1913
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera III)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera II)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera I)
    Burnet, Oxford Classical Texts (Platonis Opera IV)
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Storr, Loeb 1912
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Storr, Loeb 1913
    Jones, Oxford Classical Texts (1910; 1942 printing)
  • Chinese
    word by word
    Chinese Union Version (Simplified)
    Chinese Union Version (Traditional)
    木蘭詩 — Chinese Wikisource
    洛神賦 — Chinese Wikisource
    殉難六烈士傳 — Chinese Wikisource
    少年中國說 — Chinese Wikisource
    與妻書 — Chinese Wikisource (the manuscript)
    魯迅全集, vol. 1 (Shanghai, 1948) — Chinese Wikisource
    清平山堂話本 — Chinese Wikisource
    三字經 as Herbert Giles prints it, Shanghai 1900 — English Wikisource
    墓畔哀歌 — Chinese Wikisource
    孫子兵法 — Chinese Wikisource
    桃花源記并詩 — Chinese Wikisource
    與山巨源絕交書 — Chinese Wikisource
    希望的埋葬 — Chinese Wikisource
    決斷 — Chinese Wikisource
    再剖 — Chinese Wikisource
    雪花的快樂 — Chinese Wikisource
    天國的消息 — Chinese Wikisource
    破廟 — Chinese Wikisource
    血淚 — Chinese Wikisource
    春風沉醉的晚上 — Chinese Wikisource
    沉淪 — Chinese Wikisource
    背影 (Kaiming Shudian, Shanghai, 1928) — Chinese Wikisource
    匆匆 (Yadong Tushuguan, Shanghai, 1924) — Chinese Wikisource
    荷塘月色 (Kaiming Shudian, Shanghai, 1928) — Chinese Wikisource
  • German
    Luther Bible 1912
    Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper — German Wikisource
    Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie, Vieweg 1917
    Jenseits des Lustprinzips (Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 2nd ed., 1921)
    Faust. Eine Tragödie — Cotta, Tübingen 1808
    Die Leiden des jungen Werther — Project Gutenberg
    Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, 7th edition (1857) — German Wikisource
    Phänomenologie des Geistes — first edition, 1807 (Deutsches Textarchiv)
    Buch der Lieder, first edition (1827) — German Wikisource
    Die Verwandlung (Kurt Wolff, 1917)
    Kritik der praktischen Vernunft, Akademie-Ausgabe (1913)
    Kritik der reinen Vernunft, second edition (1787)
    Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? (Cassirer, 1913)
    Zum ewigen Frieden, first edition (1795)
    Der Tod in Venedig (Hyperion, 1912)
    Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, London 1848 — German Wikisource
    Jenseits von Gut und Böse — Project Gutenberg (ebook 7204)
    Die Geburt der Tragödie — Project Gutenberg (old spelling)
    Ecce homo — Project Gutenberg (old spelling)
    Götzen-Dämmerung — Project Gutenberg (old spelling)
    Also sprach Zarathustra — Project Gutenberg (ebook 7205)
    Die Räuber — Cotta, Tübingen 1805
    Wilhelm Tell — Cotta, Stuttgart 1862
    Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (Ohle, 1913)
  • Latin
    Vulgata Clementina
    Principia, first edition 1687
    Acta Sanctae Sedis · Acta Apostolicae Sedis, to 1930
    Preces traditae
    Migne, Patrologia Latina 32 (1841)
    Leonine text, Rome 1888–1889 (Prima Pars)
    Migne, Patrologia Latina 41
    Proslogion seu Alloquium de Dei existentia, in J.-P. Migne, Patrologia Latina 158 (Paris, 1864)
    Meditationes de prima philosophia, ed. Artur Buchenau (Leipzig: Meiner, 1913), after the first edition (Paris, 1641)
    De rerum natura, Perseus Latin text (printing not named)
    Aeneid, ed. J. B. Greenough (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1881), Perseus Latin text
  • Russian
    Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
    Братья Карамазовы — Russian Wikisource
    Преступление и наказание — Russian Wikisource
    Идиот — Russian Wikisource
    Записки из подполья — Russian Wikisource
  • French
    Louis Segond 1910
    Discours de la méthode, in Œuvres de Descartes, éd. Victor Cousin, t. I (dated 1824 by Wikisource's index; the ebook prints no year)
    Trois contes, fifth edition (1877), Un cœur simple
    Fables de La Fontaine, illustrations par Grandville (Garnier Frères, Paris, 1868)
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1678 text in modernised spelling; Project Gutenberg 14913)
    La Princesse de Clèves, as Gutenberg #18797 prints it (1689 Barbin title page, spelling modernised)
    Traité élémentaire de chimie, Paris, Cuchet, 1789
    La Monadologie, éd. Clodius Piat (Paris: Lecoffre, 1900)
    Le Misanthrope, éd. Philarète Chasles (Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1887)
    Essais, the 1595 text as General Michaud printed it (1907)
    Pensées, éd. Léon Brunschvicg (Hachette, 1921–1925)
    Phèdre, Racine, Œuvres (Didot, 1854), as transcribed on French Wikisource
  • Vietnamese
    Kinh Thánh (Cadman, 1925)
  • Italian
    Riveduta (Luzzi, 1927)
  • Marathi
    Indian Revised Version (Marathi)
  • Portuguese
    Bíblia Livre (2018)
  • Bengali
    Indian Revised Version (Bengali)
  • Gujarati
    Indian Revised Version (Gujarati)
  • Hindi
    Indian Revised Version (Hindi)
  • Punjabi
    Indian Revised Version (Punjabi)
    Faridkot Wala Teeka
    Sri Guru Granth Sahib — Manmohan Singh, Punjabi
    Sri Guru Granth Darpan — Prof. Sahib Singh
    Shabadaarth, SGPC
  • Tamil
    Indian Revised Version (Tamil)
  • Telugu
    Indian Revised Version (Telugu)
  • Urdu
    Indian Revised Version (Urdu, Devanagari script)
  • Japanese
    Freedom Bible (Japanese)
  • Thai
    Freedom Bible (Thai)
  • Eastern Armenian
    Eastern Armenian Bible
  • Western Armenian
    Western Armenian Bible
  • Sanskrit
    Śrīmadbhagavadgītā, Sanskrit Wikisource
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