---
title: "Paragraphs that lean toward one text"
method: GET
path: "/scriptures/insights/leans"
tags: ["Scriptures"]
---

# Paragraphs that lean toward one text

`GET /scriptures/insights/leans`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.urantia.dev`
- URL: `https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/insights/leans`
- Auth: none required

Urantia paragraphs whose closest text stands out above their mean across texts, ranked by that gap. A lean counts only when the text has the paragraph in its top 10% and both embedding models pick the same text. Filter with `corpus` (a corpus name or `bible`).

Scores come from the nine world religions texts and the World English Bible. For each text, a paragraph's best match becomes a percentile within that text, after an adjustment for paragraph length. The texts are not independent votes: a paragraph that sounds devotional tends to score well in all of them. These are measures of closeness in meaning by an embedding model, not claims about the teachings.

## Query parameters

- `corpus` string: A corpus id, slug, or ref prefix, or `bible`
- `excludeBible` 'true' | 'false': `true` leaves out the Bible, which has most of the mutual pairs
- `minLength` integer, nullable: Leave out paragraphs shorter than this many characters. Headings and fragments score unreliably
- `page` integer, nullable
- `limit` integer

## Response `200`

Leans

- object
  - `data` object[], required
    - `paragraph` object, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `standardReferenceId` string, required
      - `paperId` string, required
      - `paperTitle` string, required
      - `sectionTitle` string, nullable, required
      - `text` string, required
    - `corpus` object, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `slug` string, required
      - `religion` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `translator` string, required
      - `year` integer, required
      - `refPrefix` string, required
      - `urantiaSection` string, nullable, required: The Paper 131 section headed with this religion, or null when Paper 131 has no such heading
    - `gap` number, required: How far this text's percentile is above the paragraph's mean across texts
    - `percentile` number, required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `page` integer, required
    - `limit` integer, required
    - `total` integer, required
    - `totalPages` integer, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request
- `429`: Too many requests
- `500`: Internal server error

## Changes

- **2026-10-08** `0e36cd11b340`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/urantia/apis/urantia-papers-api/changes/scriptures/insights/leans/get.md)

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