Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-11-03
STATISTICS OF THE BIBLE.


The Scriptures have been translated
into one hundred and forty-eight Ian
guages and dialects, of which one hun
dred and twenty-one had, prior to the
formation of the British Foreign Bible
Society,"" never appeared. And twenty
FIVE of these languages existed without an
alphabet in an oral form. Upwards of
forty-three millions of those copies Of
Gods word are circulated among not less
than six hundred millions of people
The first division of the divine orders
nto chapters and verses is attributed to
Stephen Langton, archbishop of Canter-
bury, in the reign of King John, in the
latter part of the twelfth century or be-
ginning of the thirteenth. Cardinal
Hugo, in the middle of the thirteenth
century, divided the Old Testament into
chapters as they now stand in our trans
lation. In 1861, Athias, Jew of Am
sterdam, divided the section of Hugo
into verses-a French printer had pre-
viously (l56I divided the New Testa-
ment into verses as they now are.
The Old Testament contains 80 books,
929 chapters, 23,2l4 verses, 500 ,439
words, 2,73S, 100 letters.
The new Testament contains n books,
260 chapters, 1850 verses, lS2, ,253 words,
933, $50 letters.
The entire Bible contains 66 books,
1889 chapters, l,l75 verses, 1852
words, 1856, ,4S0 letters.
The name of Jehovah, or Lord, occurs
6s55 times In the Old Testament.
The word land" occurs in the Old
Testament 5,543 times.
The middle book Of the Old Testament
is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the 29th Of Job.
The middle verse is I'd Chronicles, 10th
chapter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Testament
is I'd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 18th
and l4th.
The middle verse Is acts 1l:7
The middle chapter and the least in the
Bible is Psalms /: II.
The middle verse in the Biblei is Psalms
3lS:s.
The middle line in the Bible is I'd
Cronicles 4: l6.
The least verse in the Old Testament
is lst Chronicles / /: !.
The least verse in the Bibleis John ii:
IS.
The 10th chap. of I'd Kings and Isaiah
Seth are the same.
In the 2lst verse of the 1th of Ezra are
all the letters of the alphabet, l and J
considered as one.
The apocrypha mot inspired, but some
times bound between the Old Testament
and the New contains Ia books, 1873
chapters, 5,08l verses, l52, 1856 words.
The preceding facts were ascertained
by q gentleman in l7l8. Also, by an
Englishman residing at Amsterdam, l772,
and it is said to have taken each gentle
man nearly three years in the investiga-
ton.
There is Bible In the library of the
University of Gottingen written on 5476
palm leaves.
A days journey was 33 and is miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about an
English mile.
Fzekiers reed was eleven feet, nearly.
A cubit is % inches, nearly.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
Gye-eighth inches,
A fingers breadth Is equal to one Inoh,
A shekel of silver was about fifty cents.
A shekel of gold was 50 09.
A talent Of silver was $5l6 80.
A talent of gold was $ls,s09.
A piece of silver or a penny was thir-
tsen gents,
A farthing vas three cents.
A gerah was one cent
A mite was one and half csnts.
A homer contains seyenty-five gallons
and FIVE pints.
An epha or bath contains seven gallons
and five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A frkip was seven pints.
An omer was slK plntsi
A cab was three pipts,
A dog was one-half pint.
The divisions Of the Old Testament
are four.
!. The Psnlassuch, or the FIVE books
Of Moses. -.
2. The historical books, comprising
Joshua TO Esther, inclusive.
8. Poetical or doctrinsl books, rom
Job to Songs Of Solomon, inclusive.
4. Prophetical books, from Isaiah 70
Malachi
The New Testament is usually divided
into three parts.
/. Historical, containing the four Cos
pels and Acts.
= Doctrinai. comprising 81 the Epis-
ties from Roman 10 Jude.
). Prophetical. being the book Of Rev
Citations Of ST John.
The commemorative ordinances Of the
Jews were;