Bible Related Facts and Numbers

==Bible-Related Facts and Numbers ==
In addition to answering the question about how many chapters are in each book of the Bible, here are a few additional fun facts worth knowing.
How many chapters are in the Old Testament?
There are 929 chapters across 39 books of the Old Testament of the Bible.
== How many chapters are in the New Testament? ==
There are 260 chapters across 27 books of the Bible.
== How many chapters are in the Bible? ==
There are 1,189 chapters within the 66 books that make up the modern Bible.
== How many verses are in the Bible? ==
There are 31,102 verses in the Bible, which is made up of 23,145 verses in the Old Testament and 7,957 verses in the New Testament.
== What is the longest chapter in the Bible? ==
The longest chapter is Psalm 119, which has a total of 176 verses.
== How many words are in the Bible? ==
Because there are so many different translations of the Bible, and each translation uses a different number of words for each verse, chapter and book, this is a difficult question to answer. In general, the English Bible runs around 785,000 words in length.
== Where did the Bible chapter and verse numbers come from? ==
The Bible was not written with chapter and verse division. These were added later.
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