diff --git a/script.go b/script.go
index cb5b00f..b95c14d 100644
--- a/script.go
+++ b/script.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ func ScriptCommands(db *DB) hive.ScriptCmdsOut {
 		"db/lowerbound":  LowerBoundCmd(db),
 		"db/watch":       WatchCmd(db),
 		"db/initialized": InitializedCmd(db),
+		"db/dump":        DumpCmd(db),
 	})
 }
 
@@ -60,7 +61,7 @@ func DBCmd(db *DB) script.Cmd {
 				"",
 				"The individual tables can be manipulated and inspected with the",
 				"other commands. See 'help -v db/show' etc. for detailed help.",
-				"Here is some examples to get you statred:",
+				"Here is some examples to get you started:",
 				"",
 				"> db/show example",
 				"Name   X",
@@ -93,6 +94,46 @@ func DBCmd(db *DB) script.Cmd {
 	)
 }
 
+func DumpCmd(db *DB) script.Cmd {
+	return script.Command(
+		script.CmdUsage{
+			Summary: "Dump StateDB contents as JSON",
+			Flags: func(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
+				fs.StringP("out", "o", "", "File to write to instead of stdout")
+			},
+			Detail: []string{
+				"The contents are written to stdout, but can be written to",
+				"a file instead with the -o flag.",
+			},
+		},
+		func(s *script.State, args ...string) (script.WaitFunc, error) {
+			file, err := s.Flags.GetString("out")
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+
+			return func(s *script.State) (stdout string, stderr string, err error) {
+				var (
+					buf strings.Builder
+					w   io.Writer = &buf
+				)
+
+				if file != "" {
+					f, err := os.OpenFile(s.Path(file), os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC|os.O_WRONLY, 0644)
+					if err != nil {
+						return "", "", fmt.Errorf("OpenFile(%s): %w", file, err)
+					}
+					defer f.Close()
+					w = f
+				}
+
+				err = db.ReadTxn().WriteJSON(w)
+				return buf.String(), "", err
+			}, nil
+		},
+	)
+}
+
 func InitializedCmd(db *DB) script.Cmd {
 	return script.Command(
 		script.CmdUsage{
diff --git a/testdata/db.txtar b/testdata/db.txtar
index b43ca5d..84a17a9 100644
--- a/testdata/db.txtar
+++ b/testdata/db.txtar
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is invoked by 'script_test.go' and tests the StateDB script commands 
+# This file is invoked by 'script_test.go' and tests the StateDB script commands
 # defined in 'script.go'.
 #
 
@@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ db/cmp test1 objs.table
 db/lowerbound --index=id --delete test1 2
 db/cmp test1 obj1.table
 
+# Retrieve a full DB dump
+db/dump
+cmp stdout dump-expected.json
+
+db/dump -o dump-actual.json
+cmp dump-actual.json dump-expected.json
+
 # Tables
 db
 
@@ -199,3 +206,12 @@ ID   Tags
 2    baz, foo
 -- empty.table --
 ID   Tags
+-- dump-expected.json --
+{
+  "test1": [
+    {"ID":1,"Tags":["bar","foo"]}
+  ],
+  "test2": [
+    {"ID":2,"Tags":["baz","foo"]}
+  ]
+}