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  2. Bibliomancy - Wikipedia

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    According to the Oxford English Dictionary, [ 1] the word bibliomancy (etymologically from βιβλίον biblion- "book" and μαντεία -manteía "divination by means of") "divination by books, or by verses of the Bible" was first recorded in 1753 ( Chambers' Cyclopædia ). Sometimes this term is used synonymously with stichomancy (from ...

  3. The Bible and violence - Wikipedia

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    The Bible and violence. The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament both contain narratives, poems, and instructions which describe, encourage, command, condemn, reward, punish and regulate violent actions by God, [ 1] individuals, groups, governments, and nation-states. Among the violent acts referred to are war, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice ...

  4. List of New Testament verses not included in modern English ...

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    The KJV has 23 verses in chapter 14 and 33 verses in chapter 15 of Romans. Most translations follow KJV (based on Textus Receptus) versification and have Romans 16:25–27 and Romans 14:24–26 do not exist. The WEB bible, however, moves Romans 16:25–27 (end of chapter verses) to Romans 14:24–26 (also end of chapter verses).

  5. List of English Bible translations - Wikipedia

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    Greek-English interlinear Bibles and public domain translations of the New Testament. No chapters or verses; includes line numbers; logical book order; footnotes for every OT quotation in the NT; extensive index and preface. Messianic Aleph Tav Scriptures [ 3] Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and some of the New Testament.

  6. Chapters and verses of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Ethics in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    e. Ethics in the Bible refers to the system (s) or theory (ies) produced by the study, interpretation, and evaluation of biblical morals (including the moral code, standards, principles, behaviors, conscience, values, rules of conduct, or beliefs concerned with good and evil and right and wrong), that are found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

  8. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...

  9. Bible citation - Wikipedia

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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 ...