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1993; 31 years ago (1993) Current status. Online. BibleGateway is an evangelical Christian website designed to allow easy reading, listening, studying, searching, and sharing of the Bible in many different versions and translations, including English, French, Spanish, and other languages. Its mission statement is "To honor Christ by equipping ...
There are 23,145 verses in the Old Testament and 7,957 verses in the New Testament. 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.
The English Standard Version (ESV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 2001 by Crossway, the ESV was "created by a team of more than 100 leading evangelical scholars and pastors." [11][12][13][14][15] The ESV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. [1][2]
8–10 [34] 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: 7 [35] 11 [35] 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy: 8–11 [36] 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy: 12–15 [37] 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 Honour thy father and thy mother: 12 [38] 16 [39] 6 8 6 6 5 5 5 5 Thou shalt not murder ...
[8] The Genesis Apocryphon is heavily influenced by the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, and the Book of Genesis account. It records the story of Genesis in the same chronological order, but by using these editing methods, it presents the patriarchs as examples to emulate. The main process is effectively substitution, or replacing the text ...
This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned. Much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE. [7] The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE. [8] The deuterocanonical books fall largely in between.
Chronology of the Bible. The chronology of the Bible is an elaborate system of lifespans, ' generations ', and other means by which the Masoretic Hebrew Bible (the text of the Bible most commonly in use today) measures the passage of events from the creation to around 164 BCE (the year of the re-dedication of the Second Temple).
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve. The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter. The genealogy for Cain is given in chapter 4, and the genealogy for Seth is in ...