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A Fairness Report

No verse weighted. No book favored.

Random verses on this site are picked by a cryptographically secure RNG drawing entropy from the operating system — the same primitive your bank uses for session tokens. Most "random" verse generators don't actually do this. This page is the receipt that ours does.

Computed across 172,598 selections in the last 50 days.

The receipts

Old vs New Testament

Does the system favor one over the other?

Old Testament
74% vs 74% expected
New Testament
26% vs 26% expected

Biggest swings

Which books deviate the most from their expected rate?

1 outside ±2σ — all small-sample variance. None anomalous (none past ±3.5σ).

  • Judges -4.2% -2.43σ

One day, scattered

What does a day's randomness actually look like?

Verse dispersion pattern showing random scatter across 31,102 Bible verses
2026-07-15 — each pixel is one of 31,102 verses; lit pixels were served that day.

Deviation, all 66 books

Each book's actual selection rate compared to its expected rate based on verse count. Bars right of the midline appeared more often than expected; bars left appeared less. The shape tells the story.

Dataset

Selections analyzed
172,598
Eligible verses
31,102
Window
50 days

Why does 3 John look skewed?

Expected 77.7 hits, got 65 — a -16.3% swing on a 14-verse book. Looks alarming, but it's a difference of 12.7 hits. Small books have tiny expected values, so normal variance creates large percentage swings.

Z-score: -1.44σ (statistically normal).

less than expected more than expected |z| > 3.5 (would be a real anomaly)