Meaning & use
sacred text
A written work regarded by a religion as holy, authoritative, or divinely inspired.
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The Quran, the Torah, and the Bible are sacred texts central to their respective faiths.
Scholars compared how different sacred texts describe the origin of the world.
A note on using this word
Sacred text is a general term that can refer to the scripture of any religion, not one tradition alone.
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