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The Elijah Project exists to make the original source documents of world religions freely accessible — so belief can be examined against primary texts, not secondhand claims.
Misinformation about what religions actually teach runs in every direction, often from adherents themselves. By putting the real texts in one place, side by side with a biblical response, TEP lets truth be verified rather than taken on faith in someone else's summary.
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Original texts included in this app are drawn from public domain sources and open licenses. Where a source requires attribution, that attribution is provided within the relevant entry.
Bible text is the King James Version (public domain). The Qur'an translation is supplied by the fawazahmed0/quran-api project, released under the Unlicense (a public domain dedication). Hindu source texts include the Bhagavad Gita (gita/gita project, Unlicense), the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Charles Johnston translation, 1912), the Brahma Sutras (George Thibaut translation, Sacred Books of the East), the Manusmriti (George Bühler translation, Sacred Books of the East), the Mahabharata (Kisari Mohan Ganguli translation, 1883-96), the thirteen principal Upanishads (Robert Ernest Hume translation, 1921), the Ramayana, Books I-VI (Ralph T.H. Griffith translation, 1870-74), and the Vishnu Purana (Manmatha Nath Dutt translation, 1894-96, after H.H. Wilson) — all public domain. Buddhist source texts include the Dhammapada, the Digha Nikaya, the Majjhima Nikaya, the Sutta Nipata, the Udana, the Itivuttaka, and a selection of suttas from the Samyutta and Anguttara Nikayas (Bhikkhu Sujato translation, via SuttaCentral's bilara-data project, CC0 public domain dedication), and the Heart Sutra (F. Max Müller translation, 1894, Sacred Books of the East) — all public domain or CC0. Catholic source texts are the Baltimore Catechism (Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead's 1891/1921 "Explanation" edition, via Project Gutenberg), the dogmatic canons of the Council of Trent (J. Waterworth's 1848 translation), two pre-1929 papal encyclicals (Rerum Novarum, 1891; Ineffabilis Deus, 1854), and the Summa Theologica (Fathers of the English Dominican Province translation, 1920) — all public domain. The seven deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) are drawn from the Douay-Rheims translation (Challoner revision), also public domain. A full list of loaded texts and their licenses is shown under Source Texts.
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Last updated: July 2026