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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 for a chapter (John 3); Book chapter 1 –chapter 2 for a range of chapters (John 1–3);
The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards by Sir Rowland Hill [21] in 1560. These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses ...
When citing the Latin Vulgate, chapter and verse are separated with a comma, for example "Ioannem 3,16"; in English Bibles chapter and verse are separated with a colon, for example "John 3:16". The Psalms of the two versions are numbered differently.
Gabby Barrett's sophomore album, "Chapter & Verse," arrived on Feb. 2. "He's a wonderful, hardworking Texan, who has strong values and a rock-solid heart," Barrett tells The Tennessean about her ...
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The biblical book of Samuel-Kings was divided into two parts in the original Hebrew so it would fit conveniently onto ancient scrolls.When it was translated into Greek it expanded by a third (because Greek writing uses more letters per word in average than Hebrew writing), and so each part was divided in half, producing the books known today as 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings and 2 Kings.
While chapter and verse divisions are today primarily used for sacred texts, I believe this system of subdividing a text arose in a secular context in the Greco-Roman world. Since handwritten texts didn't have a uniform pagination from one copy to another, the chapter/verse system was developed to enable readers to find particular quotes in a book.
A book with chapters (not to be confused with the chapter book) may have multiple chapters that respectively comprise discrete topics or themes. In each case, chapters can be numbered, titled, or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is "Down the Rabbit-Hole", which is the first chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.