> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.urantia.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get Scripture Passages > Returns the passages for a reference. Use `2.47` (chapter and verse), `2.47-49` (a range of up to 50), or `2` (a whole chapter). Each text has its own number of levels (`refLevels`): the Dhammapada, the Japji, and the Shinto oracles have one (`Dhp 183`), Epictetus has three (`Epictetus 3.22.5`), and the others have two. A ref with fewer numbers names a whole part, such as `Epictetus 3.22`. The ref prefix is optional: `BG 2.47` and `2.47` are the same. ## OpenAPI ````yaml GET /scriptures/{corpus}/{ref} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Urantia Papers API version: 1.0.0 description: >- A developer and AI-agent friendly API for the Urantia Papers. Provides full-text search, structured content access, and audio URLs for all 17,000+ paragraphs across 197 papers. servers: - url: https://api.urantia.dev description: Production - url: http://localhost:3000 description: Local development security: [] paths: /scriptures/{corpus}/{ref}: get: tags: - Scriptures summary: Get scripture passages by reference description: >- Returns the passages for a reference. Use `2.47` (chapter and verse), `2.47-49` (a range of up to 50), or `2` (a whole chapter). Each text has its own number of levels (`refLevels`): the Dhammapada, the Japji, and the Shinto oracles have one (`Dhp 183`), Epictetus has three (`Epictetus 3.22.5`), and the others have two. A ref with fewer numbers names a whole part, such as `Epictetus 3.22`. The ref prefix is optional: `BG 2.47` and `2.47` are the same. operationId: getScripturePassages parameters: - schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 64 description: >- Corpus id, slug, or ref prefix, e.g. `bhagavad-gita`, `bg`, or `dhammapada` required: true description: >- Corpus id, slug, or ref prefix, e.g. `bhagavad-gita`, `bg`, or `dhammapada` name: corpus in: path - schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 32 description: >- A passage (`2.47`, `BG 2.47`, `Dhp 183`, `Epictetus 3.22.5`), a short range (`2.47-49`), or a whole chapter (`2`) required: true description: >- A passage (`2.47`, `BG 2.47`, `Dhp 183`, `Epictetus 3.22.5`), a short range (`2.47-49`), or a whole chapter (`2`) name: ref in: path example: '2:5.1' responses: '200': description: The passages content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: data: type: object properties: corpus: type: object properties: id: type: string slug: type: string religion: type: string title: type: string translator: type: string year: type: integer refPrefix: type: string urantiaSection: type: - string - 'null' description: >- The Paper 131 section headed with this religion, or null when Paper 131 has no such heading required: - id - slug - religion - title - translator - year - refPrefix - urantiaSection passages: type: array items: type: object properties: id: type: string ref: type: string division: type: integer divisionTitle: type: - string - 'null' subdivision: type: - integer - 'null' text: type: string required: - id - ref - division - divisionTitle - subdivision - text required: - corpus - passages required: - data example: data: corpus: id: bhagavad-gita-besant-1922 slug: bhagavad-gita religion: Hinduism title: The Bhagavad Gita translator: Annie Besant (4th edition) year: 1922 refPrefix: BG urantiaSection: '131:4' passages: - id: bhagavad-gita-besant-1922:BG 2.47 ref: BG 2.47 division: 2 divisionTitle: null subdivision: null text: >- Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached. headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '400': description: Invalid reference content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '404': description: Corpus or passage not found content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' '429': description: Too many requests headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' '500': description: Internal server error content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails' headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Limit' X-RateLimit-Remaining: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Remaining' X-RateLimit-Reset: $ref: '#/components/headers/X-RateLimit-Reset' components: headers: X-RateLimit-Limit: description: The number of requests allowed in the current window. schema: type: integer example: 200 X-RateLimit-Remaining: description: The number of requests left in the current window. schema: type: integer example: 199 X-RateLimit-Reset: description: The time the window resets, in Unix seconds. schema: type: integer example: 1791152213 schemas: ProblemDetails: type: object description: An RFC 9457 problem details object. Every error response uses it. properties: type: type: string format: uri description: A URI that names the error type. title: type: string description: The short name of the status. status: type: integer description: The HTTP status code. detail: type: string description: What went wrong in this request. required: - type - title - status - detail example: type: https://urantia.dev/errors/not-found title: Not Found status: 404 detail: Paragraph not found ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.