Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-08
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| The bible.
The following calculation Of the number Of
books, chapters verses, words, letters &C., con
tanned in the Old and New Testament may be
worth reading aud preserving by many of the
numerous readers of your paper:
| s. The Old Testament contains 80 books, g20
chapters, % las verses, ,502, 439 words, 272s,.
100 letters
The middle book is Proverbs, the mi Idle
chapter is the 29th chapter Of Job, the middle
verse is I'd Chronicles, lsth chapter and 30th
verse, the least verse is lst Chronicles, lst
chapter and lst verse.
The chapters in the Old Testament will av-
erage about 30 10 to boof the verses 25 to
a chapter the words 25 to a verse: and
the letters 4 to word.
The New Testamen. contains 27 books, 260
chapters, 957 verses, lsl ,253 words s3s $50
letters.
The middle book is 2l Thessalonians, the
middle chapters are the 18th and ldth chapters
Of Romans, the middle verse is Acts 7th chap.
ter and 7th verse; the least verse is John, llth
chapter and 35th verse.
The chapters in the New Testament will
average about 9 3 to book; the verses 30 5
to a chapter; the words 22} TO a verse and the
letters A 90 to q word
The entire Bible contains &C books. | ls0
chapters, 81 l02 verses, 1852 words, 3 566, =
4s0 letters.
The Middle books are Micah and Nahum
The middle chapter and least chapter in the
Bible is the l7th Psalm T middle verses
are lO3d Psalm and 2l and 81 verses.
The word and occurs in the Bible 46 227
times, viz: in the Old Testament 95, 5i3 and
in the New Testament 1854
The word JEHOVAH occurs 6 S54 times.
The word JESUS occurs in the Epistles Of
Paul 224 times
The word CHRIST occurs in the same Epstcl
p, 420 times
. Tho word CHRIST occurs in the let chapter o
. lst Corinthians II times; the chapter con
tans 81 verses and in tue l st chapter Of Phil
t ippans Is timesi the chapter contains 81
+ verses.
IN the 2lst verse Of the 9TH chapter Of Ezra
are ell tho letters of the alphabet aud ,
being considered as one.
The 9th chapter Of the 2l of Kings and tn,
. 97th chapter of Isaiah alike
The book of Esther has 10 chapters, bu
neither of the words Lord or God are in it.
i David uses the pronoun 1 l42 times in the
Il 10th Psalm, and Paul uses it 81 times in the
r 9th chapter of LIST Corinthians, AZ times in the
llth chapter 2d Corinthians, and AZ times in
the 18th chapter which contains only . verses
and 33 times in the 7th chapter of Romans
times in the 18th verso of but % words.
Tho Apocrypha (not inspired, but sometimes
bound between the Old Testament and New
contains l73 chapters, 6,0sl verses and 1862 lsi
words.
Cardinal Hugo about 1910, divided the Bib,
into chapters as they now stand in our transla
t3~u
y Mordecai Ma han, Jewish Rabbi, ABOUT J. "a
, divided the chapters of the Old Testament int
verses. But Athias, jew of Amsterdam il
d 1851 divided the chapters of the Old Tefta
ment into verscslas they now are, aud about th
same time Robert Stevens, French printer
divided the chapters of the New Testamen
: into verses as they now are
T. The ~it of printing was invented by Faust
goldsmith of Mentz in lf4i, and the frs
! book ever printed was the Vulgate edition o
+ the Bible, and soon after the German Bible o
e Newremburg was printed
y ,; Our present English version of the Bib,
was first published in 1913
The first printing press in North America
was set up at Cambridge, Mass in 1880, anl
Z among the first books printed was an In
', dian version of the Bible translated by Eli It
r There Is Bible in :he Library of the Uni
verslty OF Gottlngen written on 5,746 palu
leaves.
The Scriptures have been translated int,
more than $50 languages and dialects and com,
fifty millions Of these copies of Gods word
f have been circulated, and yet about one half o
the human family are entirely ignorant OF tn,
i true God and have never heard Of the Saviour
HENRY ALGER.
RooKroRT, o., Oct. 9Oth, 1859 fThis is m,
z 7lst brthday.l
7. S.-Tho number of words and letters il
the Bible, and the number of times the word
: and and Jehovah occur, | have taken from
others and not my own calculation. IL A.