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I worked on a project once involving divination from texts and wrote Terry about this topic. Here's what he told me (2015):

"""The easiest way to pick a random passage is to read timer that is in the random 1-20Mhz. If you have a faster timer, then divide by a number. The Bible is 4Meg. You want a random number from 0 to 4 million. The Bible is 100,000 lines of text. If you have the Bible in memory being edited, broken down by line number, you can pick a random line number from 0 to 100,000. If you flip 17 coins, you get a random number from 0 to 120,000. I use that for picking a line number.

God can do pretty-much any technique. The simplest and best is probably just randomly opening the Bible by hand."""

RIP.