How-to enable and use enable the JW.org Skill for Amazon Alexa

Next, sign in to the Amazon account that your Alexa device is registered to.

Click the “Enable” button.

Commands to use the JW.ORG Skill.

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Your command must include the skill name jw.org either before or after the description of what you want to play. For example, say:

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• “Alexa, play original songs from jw.org” or “Alexa, ask jw.org to play original songs”
   

Alexa plays the audio version of the content you ask for. For example, say: 
 

• “Alexa, play Genesis from jw.org” or
   

• “Alexa, play Matthew chapter 5 from jw.org” or
   

• “Alexa, play John chapter 11, verse 32, from jw.org”

When you ask Alexa to play a music collection, it plays the songs in random order until you tell Alexa to stop. Say:
 

• “Alexa, play Kingdom songs from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play vocal Kingdom songs from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play Song 38 from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play meeting Song 3 from jw.org”
   

Alexa can play the assigned Bible reading, the Watchtower study article, the Meeting Workbook schedule, or the Congregation Bible Study material from last week, this week, or next week. In each case, the week begins on Monday. Say:
 

• “Alexa, read this week’s Bible reading from jw.org” or “Alexa, read the Bible reading for this week from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read next week’s Bible reading from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read this week’s Watchtower Study from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read this week’s Meeting Workbook from jw.org”
   

To hear Specific Publications say:
 

• “Alexa, read the daily text [for today] from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read the daily text for tomorrow from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read Enjoy Life Forever! lesson 1 from jw.org” or “Alexa, read lesson 1 of Enjoy Life Forever! from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, read the Love People brochure lesson 1 from jw.org” or “Alexa, read lesson 1 of the Love People brochure from jw.org”
   

Additional Features include:
 

• “Alexa, play the latest morning worship from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play dramas from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play dramatic Bible readings from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play the [monthly] broadcast from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play the [monthly] broadcast for February 2015 from jw.org”
   

• “Alexa, play the [latest] Governing Body Update from jw.org”
   

You can play audio content in a different language if the content is available in that language on jw.org.

For example say:
 

• “Alexa, read this week’s Watchtower Study in Russian from jw.org.”
   

You can control playback by giving commands such as the following:
 

• “Alexa, pause” or 
   

• “Alexa, stop”
   

• “Alexa, resume”
   

• “Alexa, next” or 
   

• “Alexa, skip”
   

• “Alexa, previous”
   

• “Alexa, repeat” or 
   

• “Alexa, restart”
   

• “Alexa, loop”
   

• “Alexa, loop off”
   

These are just some examples of the JW.org Skill using Alexa.