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Cool Facts About The Bible
- The word Bible comes for the Greek word Biblia, which literally means "books."
- Written by over 40 different authors over 1600 years
- Written from about 1450 BC to 100 AD
- Written in 3 languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek)
- Written on 3 continents (Asia, Africa, Europe)
- First book to be printed, in 1454 (best seller every year since then)
- The Bible has been translated to over 6,000 different languages
- The Bible contains about 773,692 words!
- It takes only about 70 hours to read the whole Bible out loud
- The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton in 1228
- The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in 1448
- The New Testament by Robert Stephanus in 1551.
- The Old Testament contains 39 books
- The Old Testament contains 929 chapters
- The Old Testament contains 23,214 verses
- The New Testament contains 27 books
- The New Testament contains 260 chapters
- The New Testament contains 7,956 verses
- For a total in the Bible of: 66 books; 1,189 chapters; 31,170 verses
- The Longest Verse: Esther 8:9
- The Longest Chapter: Psalms 119
- The Longest Book: Psalms
- The Shortest Verse: John 11:35
- The 2nd Shortest Verse: I Chronicles 1:25
- The Shortest Chapter: Psalm 117
- The Shortest Book: 2 John
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