Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-05-28
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The New TESTAMENT ontains27 books,
go chapters, 1854 verses, 132, 253
words, 933, $50 letters.
The entire Bible contains &c books,
1,199 chapters, 81, 173 verses, 773, 692
words, 3, sec, 4S0 letters.
Tha name of Jehovah, or Lord, oc.
ours $3.50 times in the Old Testament.
The word "and" occurs in the Old
Testament 81, 543 times.
The middle book of the Old Tesla
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the Goth of Job.
The middle verse is I'd Chronicles,
Doth chapter, 18th verse.
The middle book of the New Tesla
ment is I'd Thessalonians.
The middle chapters are Romans 13
and IA.
The middle verse is Acts IL z.
The middle chapter, and the least In
the Bible, is Psalms III.
The middle verse in the Bible is
Psalms 10: 8.
The least verse in the Old Testament
is LIST Chronicles l: 25.
The least verse in the Bible is John
IL: 35.
The 10Th chapter of I'd Kings and
Isaiah 81 are the same.
In the 21st verse of 9TH chapter of
Ezra are all the letters of the alphabet,
l and considered rs one.
The Apocrypha (not inspired, but
sometimes bound between the Old
Testament and the New, contains II
books, 1S3 chapters, 10, 0S1 verses, 153,
185 words.
The preceding facts were ascertained
by a gentleman in 1918. Also by an
Englishman residing at Amsterdam in
1772, and it is said to have taken each
gentleman nearly three years in the in
vestigation.
There is Bible in the library of the
University of Gottingen written on o.
476 palm leaves.
A days journey was thirty-three and
one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath days journey was about
an English mile.
EzekiePs reed was eleven feet. nearly.
A cubit is twenty-five inches, nearly.
A hands breadth is equal to three and
fve-eighths inches.
A fingers breadth is equal to one inch.
A shekel of silver was about fifty
cents.
A shekel of gold was So %.
A talent of silver was S516.32.
A talent of gold was S13,S
A piece of silver or penny was thir-
teen cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A german was one cent.
A mite was one and half cent.
A homer contains seventy-fve gallons
and five pints.
A nepha or bath contains seven gallons
and five pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A tirkin was seven pints.
An omer was six pints.
A cup was three pints.
The divisions of the Old Testament
are four
1. The Pentateuch, or the four books
of Moses.
2. The historical books, comprising
Joshua to Esther, inclusive.
3. Poetical or doctrinal books, from
Job to Songs of Solomon, inclusive.
4. PrOphetical books, from Isaiah to
Malachi.
The New Testament is usually divided
into three parts:
1. Historical, containing the four
gospels and acts.
2. Doctrinal, comprising all the
epistles, from Romans to Judges.
3. Prophetical, being the book of
Revelations If st. John.
The commemorative ordinances of the
Jews we're
Circumcision, the seal OF the covenant
with Abraham.
The Passover, to commemorate the
prediction of the Israelites, when all
the first born of the Egyptians were
destroyed.
The feast of Tabernacles, instituted
to perpetuate the sojourning of the
Israelites for forty years in the wilder
ness.
The feast of Pentecost, which was APP
pointed fifty years after the Passover.
to commemorate the delivery of the law
from Mount Sinai.
The feast of Purim, kept in memory
of the deliverance of the Jews from the
wicked Vaccinations of Hannah.
In 1912 it would have cost laboring
man several years of labor to purchase
a Bible, as his pay would only be one
and one-half pence per day, while the
| price of q Bible was 60