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Study what a Bible passage actually means — its wording, structure, original-language keywords, cross-references, and historical setting. Use when the user names a passage and wants to understand it, e.g. "what does Romans 8:28 mean", "exegete Ephesians 2:1-10", "walk me through Psalm 23", "study John 1". For a single word use word-study; for a theme across scripture use topical-study; to produce a sermon use sermon-preparation.
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# Passage exegesis Work under `bible-evidence-grounding`: cite the tool behind every claim, keep text, commentator and inference in separate registers, and when a lookup comes back empty say so instead of filling it in. ## Work in this order, and do not reorder it **text → structure → original language → cross-references → historical background → commentary LAST.** The ordering is the whole discipline. Commentary read first *becomes* the reading — you will spend the rest of the study finding support for a conclusion you inherited. Commentary read last either confirms a reading you built from the text yourself, or challenges it, and both outcomes are worth something. Build first. Check second. ### 1. Read the text `get_verse` for the passage, `get_chapter` for the paragraph around it. Read the whole chapter even when the question is one verse. Then say, in your own words, what the passage says — before consulting anything. ### 2. See where translations diverge `compare_translations` on the key verses. Defaults are `BSB`, `ENGWEBP` and `eng_kjv`; the IDs are case-sensitive, so pass them exactly. Divergence is a signal, not noise. Where English versions split, something in the original is ambiguous, idiomatic, or textually disputed — that verse is where the original-language work should go. Where they agree, spend your time elsewhere. ### 3. Go to the original on the verses that earned it `get_interlinear` on the divergent verses. It returns each word with its Strong'