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A common format for biblical citations is Book chapter:verses, using a colon to delimit chapter from verse, as in: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth" ( Gen. 1:1 ). Or, stated more formally, [ 2][ 3][ 4][ a] book chapter:verse1,verse2 for multiple disjoint verses ( John 6:14, 44 ). The range delimiter is an en-dash, and ...
The New American Bible ( NAB) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1970. The 1986 Revised NAB is the basis of the revised Lectionary. In the Catholic Church in the United States, it is the only translation approved for use during Mass. The 1970 NAB is also approved for use in the Episcopal Church in the United States. [1] [2]
Four letters, fifty letters apart, starting from the first taw on the first verse, form the word תורה ( Torah ). The Bible code ( Hebrew: הצופן התנ"כי, hatzofen hatanachi ), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of encoded words within a Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to proponents, has predicted significant ...
e. A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible. Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical ...
This gives a total of 31,102 verses, [ 29] which is an average of a little more than 26 verses per chapter and 471 verses per book. Psalm 103 :1–2 being the 15,551st and 15,552nd verses is in the middle of the 31,102 verses of the Bible. John 11:35 [ 30] ("Jesus wept") is the shortest verse in most English translations.
Joseph Smith Translation. Yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest. And the earth was without form, and void; and I caused darkness to come up upon the face of the deep. And my Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, for I am God. And I, God, said, Let there be light, and there was light.
The King James Version ( KJV ), also the King James Bible ( KJB) and the Authorized Version ( AV ), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [ d][ e] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books ...
In this copy, a slip of paper has been pasted over the misprint (circled in red). [ a] Throughout history, printers' errors, unconventional translations [ b] and translation mistakes have appeared in a number of published Bibles. Bibles with features considered to be erroneous are known as Bible errata, and were often destroyed or suppressed ...