DO YOU WHEN THE BIBLE WAS DIVIDED INTO CHAPTERS AND VERSES?
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DO YOU WHEN THE BIBLE WAS DIVIDED INTO CHAPTERS AND VERSES?
WHY AND WHEN WAS IT DONE?
When the books of the Bible were originally written there were no such things as chapters or verses. Each book was written without any breaks from the beginning to the end.
They Have Been Divided For Convenience.
The Chapters Added In The Thirteenth Century
The chapter and verse divisions were added to the Bible for the sake of convenience. There is no authoritative basis for the divisions we now find.
A man named Stephen Langton divided the Bible into chapters in the year A.D. 1227. Langton was a professor at the University of Paris and later he became the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Verses Were Added In The Sixteenth Century.
Robert Stephanus (Stephens), a French printer, divided the verses for his Greek New Testament. It was published in 1551.
The First Bible With Chapter And Verse Divisions.
The first entire Bible in which these chapter and verse divisions were used was Stephen's edition of the Latin Vulgate (1555)
. The first English New Testament to have both chapter and verse divisions was the Geneva Bible (1560). Fortunately Jewish scholars have followed the way of dividing the Hebrew Scripture into chapters and verses.
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