Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-11-26
THE BIBLE.

unacouainted with the following biblical facts
consequently we insert them for their special
benefit The Scriptures have been translated
into one hundred and forty-eight languages
and dialects, of which one hundred and twen'
ty-one had, prior to the formation Of the Brit
ish Foreign Bible Society, never appeared
And twenty-five of those languages existed
without an oral form. Upward of forty three
millions of these copies of Gods work are cir
culated among not less than six hundred mil
lions of people.
The first division of the Divine orders into
chapters and verses is attributed to Stephen
Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the
reign of King Jehn, in the latter part of the
18th century or < ginning of the thirteenth
Cardinal Hugo, IN the middle of the thirteenth
century, divided the Old Testament into chap.
ters as they stand in our translation. In 1861
Athias, Jew of Amsterdam, divided the sec:
tion of Hugo in verses. A French printer had
previously, in 1855, divided the New Testa'
ment into verses as they now are.
The Old Testament contains 80 books, 929
chapters, 1924 verses, 592,439 words, and
2,73S, 100 letters.
The New Testament contains q books, 27O
chapters, 1924 verses, 1928 words, and
933, 1880 letters.
The entire Bible contains 66 books, 1,19O
chapters, 81 ,173 verses, 1882 words, 1885,
480 letters.
The name of Jehovah, or Lord, occurs, $685.
times in the Old Testament.
The word "and" occurs in the Old Testa-
ment 81, ,543 times.
The middle book of the Old Testament is
Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the goth of Job.
The middle verse is the I'd Chronicles, 10Th
chapter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Testament is
I'd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 1S and IA.
The middle verse is Acts 11:17.
The middle chapter, and the least in the
Bible, is Psalms / II.
The middle verse in the Bible is Psalms
1873.
The least verse in the Old Testament is 1st
Chronicle, l: 25.
The least verse in the Bible is John II: 35.
The 10Th chapter of I'd Kings and Isaiah
81 are the same.
In the 2lst verse of 9TH chapter of Ezra are
all the letters of the alphabet, and j consld-
cred as one.
The Apocrypha (not tinspired, but sometimes
bound between the Old Testament and the
New contains IA books, 1873 chapters l5,O8l
verses, 125,1S5 words.
The preceding facts we're ascertained by a
gentleman in 1718 also by an Englishman
residing at Amsterdam in 1922, and tits said to
have taken each gentleman three years in the
investigation.
There is bible in the library of the Uni
versity of Gottengen written on 2,576 palm
leaves.
A sheckle of gold was $500.
A talent of silver was $5l6.32.
A talent of gold was $l3, ,809.
A piece of silver or penny was thirteen
cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A gerhem was one cent.
A mite was one and half cents.
A homer contains seventy-five gallons and
five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A ferkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
The divisions of the Old Testament are four :
/. The Pentateuch, or the four books OF
Moses.
g. The historical books, comprising Joshua
to Esther, inclusive.
g. Poetical and doctrinal books, from Job
to Songs of Solomon, inclusive.
The New Testament is usually divided into
three parts:
l. Historical, containing the four gospels
and Acts
g. Doctrinal. containing all the epistles
from Romans to Judges.
3. Prophetical, being the book of Revela-
ton of St. John.