Book of Mormon API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Book of Mormon (Joseph Smith, 1830) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement, published in 1830. It has 6,604 passages in 15 books. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# 1 Nephi 3:7
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/book-of-mormon/1%20Nephi%203%3A7

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "book-of-mormon",
      "title": "The Book of Mormon",
      "translator": "Joseph Smith",
      "year": 1830
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "1 Nephi 3:7",
        "division": 1,
        "text": "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug book-of-mormon, the id book-of-mormon-1830, and the prefix bom all name this text.

References

Book, chapter, and verse by name, 1 Nephi 3:7 or Alma 32:21. GET /scriptures/book-of-mormon lists every book with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"book-of-mormon","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=book-of-mormon'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/book-of-mormon/1%20Nephi%203%3A7/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Book of Mormon, published by Joseph Smith (1830)
Source: www.gutenberg.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: The text of Project Gutenberg #17, which follows a later LDS edition. Verse numbers as printed. Its title page names Joseph Smith, Jun. as translator.