Torah Literary Units — Open Dataset

What Is This?

The Woven Torah hypothesis identifies 86 literary units across the five books of Moses. Each unit is a two-dimensional composition — a table with rows and columns. This dataset maps every cell in every unit to its verse range, so that anyone with any Bible translation can reconstruct the woven reading.

The data is free to use under a CC BY 4.0 license. Credit Moshe Kline and link to chaver.com.

Download

torah-units.json (51 KB) — Full dataset with cell-level verse maps, formats, and metadata.

torah-units.csv (23 KB) — Spreadsheet-friendly version with the same data.

What Each Record Contains

For each of the 86 units: book, unit number, title, verse range, format (e.g., 3×2 or 12221 for irregular units), whether it is irregular or unique, cell count, structural type, and a cells_detail map giving the verse range for every cell position.

How to Use It

Look up any unit. The cells_detail field tells you which verses belong in which cell. For example, Genesis Unit 7 (Covenant Ceremonies, Genesis 15:1–17:27) is a 2×2 unit. Cell 1A contains Genesis 15:1–21; cell 1B contains Genesis 16:1–16. Place them side by side, and the horizontal parallels between the two covenant ceremonies become visible. This works with any translation — English, Hebrew, French, Arabic — as long as it preserves standard chapter-and-verse numbering.

Convert Any Translation — Any Language — to Woven Format

This tool works with any Bible translation in any language — English, Hebrew, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, or any other — as long as the text uses standard chapter:verse numbering. Paste the text below with chapter:verse numbers at the start of each verse (e.g., 1:1, 15:3), select the book, and the tool arranges it into the two-dimensional literary units.

What works: 1:1 In the beginning God created... or 1:1 בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים or Gen 1:1 Au commencement Dieu créa...
What does not work: Plain paragraph text without verse numbers.

Where to get text with verse numbers: copy from Sefaria (English, Hebrew), BibleGateway (60+ languages), Mechon Mamre (Hebrew, English, French), or any Bible app that includes chapter and verse numbers.

For Developers

The JSON file can be loaded directly into any application. A minimal example:

fetch('https://chaver.com/torah-weave/data/torah-units.json')
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(data => {
    // data.units is an array of 86 unit objects
    // each unit.cells_detail maps cell labels to verse ranges
    const unit = data.units.find(u => u.serial_number === 7);
    console.log(unit.title); // "Covenant Ceremonies"
    console.log(unit.cells_detail); // {"1A":"15:1-15:21", "1B":"16:1-16:16", ...}
  });

If you build something with this data — a study app, an API, a visualization — we would be glad to hear about it. Contact us.

Analyze with AI

Copy any of these prompts into an AI assistant that can fetch web data (such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini). Each prompt loads the dataset directly and guides the AI through a structural analysis.

Prompt 1 — Explore a specific unit

Fetch the Torah literary units dataset from https://chaver.com/torah-weave/data/torah-units.json and find Genesis Unit 1 (Creation, Genesis 1:1–2:3). It is a 3×2 matrix. Using the cells_detail field, lay out the six cells in a 3-row, 2-column table. Then look up each cell's verses in any English Bible translation and display the full text in the table. What patterns do you see between the left column (Days 1–3) and the right column (Days 4–6)?

Prompt 2 — Compare two parallel units

Load the dataset at https://chaver.com/torah-weave/data/torah-units.json. Compare Genesis Unit 7 (Covenant Ceremonies, Gen 15–17) with Genesis Unit 8 (Sodom and Lot, Gen 18–19). Both are 2×2 matrices. Lay out each unit as a table, fill in the verse text, and identify the horizontal parallels between cells in the same row. What do the structural parallels reveal about the relationship between Abraham's two covenant ceremonies and the Sodom narrative?

Prompt 3 — Survey the full architecture

Fetch https://chaver.com/torah-weave/data/torah-units.json and analyze the distribution of matrix formats across the five books. How many units use 2×2, 3×2, 4×2, and other formats? Are irregular units clustered in particular books? What does the overall pattern suggest about compositional technique? For background on the methodology, see https://chaver.com/torah-weave/Woven-Torah-Method