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Christianity — Bible
King James Version (1611, primary text); alternate translations: American Standard Version (1901), World English Bible (2000), Berean Standard Bible (2020), Douay-Rheims American (1899)
Judaism — Torah / Tanakh
The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation, Jewish Publication Society (JPS), 1917, with Masoretic chapter and verse numbering
Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)
R.H. Charles translation, 1917 (The Book of Enoch or 1 Enoch, Oxford), all 108 chapters
Islam — Quran
Public-domain English translation
Hinduism — Bhagavad Gita & Vedic texts
Public-domain English translations
Buddhism — Dhammapada & Sutras
Public-domain English translations
Taoism — Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi & Liezi
Tao Te Ching: James Legge (Sacred Books of the East vol. 39, 1891). Zhuangzi: Herbert A. Giles (1889). Liezi: Lionel Giles, Taoist Teachings from the Book of Lieh Tzŭ (1912)
Confucianism — Analects
James Legge translation (public domain)
Zoroastrianism — The Gathas
Christian Bartholomae's translation, English rendering in I.J.S. Taraporewala, The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra (via avesta.org)
Other traditions
Verbatim public-domain editions and translations, sourced from archives such as Project Gutenberg and Wikisource
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