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STATISTICS OF THE BIBLE.
The scriptures have been translated into 148 languages and dialects, of which 121 had, prior to the formation of the “British and Foreign Bible Society,” never appeared. And 25 of these languages existed without an alphabet in an oral form. The first division of the divine oracles into chapters and verses as attributed to Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of King John, in the latter part of the 12th century of beginning of the 13th. Cardinal Hugo, in the middle of the 13th century, divided the Old Testament into chapters, as they stand in our translation. In 1661 Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam, divided the sections of Hugo into verses, as we now have them. Robert Stephens, a French printer, had previously (1551) divided the New Testament into verses as they now are.
The Old Testament contains 39 books, 920 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,439 words, 2,728,100 letters. The New Testament contains 27 books, 260 chapters, 7,959 verses, 182,253 words, 848,380 letters. The entire Bible contains 66 books, 1,189 chapters, 31,178 verses, 773,692 words, 3,566,480 letters.
The name Jehovah, or Lord, occurs 6,855 times in the Old Testament. The word “Selah” occurs 70 times in Psalms, in Habakkuk 3 times. The word “and” occurs in the Old Testament 25,543 times, in the New Testament 10,684 times, in the Bible 46,227 times.
The Middle book of the Old Testament is Proverbs. The middle chapter is the 29th of Job – the middle verse, 2d Chronicles, xx: 17. The middle book of the New Testament is 2d Thessalonians. The middle chapters are Romans 13 and 14 – middle verse is Acts xvii, 17. The middle chapter, and the least in the Bible is Psalms cxviii, 8. The middle line in the Bible is 2d Chronicle, iv, 16.
The least verse in the Old Testament is 1st Chronicles i, 1. The least verse in the Bible is John ix, 35. The 19th chapter of 2d Kings and Isaiah 37th are the same. In the 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra are all the letters of the alphabet, I and J being considered as one.
The preceding facts were ascertained by a gentleman in 1718. Also by an English gentleman residing at Amsterdam, 1772, and it is said to have taken each gentleman nearly three years in the investigation.