CURIOUS DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
| SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BOOKS, CHAPTERS, VERSES, WORDS, LETTERS, ETC. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the Old Testament. | In the New Testament. | Total. | |||
| Books | 39 | Books | 27 | 66 | |
| Chapters | 929 | Chapters | 260 | 1,189 | |
| Verses | 23,814 | Verses | 7,959 | 81,178 | |
| Words | 692,489 | Words | 281,258 | 773,697 | |
| Letters | 2,728,100 | Letters | 838,880 | 3,566,480 | |
Apocrypha—chapters, 183; verses, 6,081; words, 152,185.
The middle chapter and the least in the Bible is Psalm cxvii.
The middle verse is the 8th of Psalm cxviii.
The middle line is in 16th verse, 4th chapter, 2 Chronicles. The word and occurs in the Old Testament 35,543 times; in the New Testament, 10,684 times.
The word Jehovah occurs 6,855 times.
OLD TESTAMENT.
The middle book is Proverbs.