a univeral reference.
God's word.
a textbook for christians.
the best selling book in the world.
the bible contains 1189 chapters.
the old testament has 929 chapters.
the new testament had 260 chapters.
the longest chapter is psalm 119
& the shortest is psalm 117.
the longest verse is esther 8:9
while the shortest is john 11:35.
the bible was written in three languages:
hebrew, aramaic, and koine greek.
the book of esther doesnt meantion the word "God"
the oldest man ever was methuselah
who lived to be 969 years old.
genesis 5:27
the bible was written by about 40 men
over a period of about 1600 years
dating from 1500 BC to about 100 years after Christ.
the bible has since been translated in part or
in whole into over 1200 languages and dialects.
the longest name in the bible is maher - shalal - hash - baz.
(aren't you glad isaiah wasn't your dad?)
isaiah 8:1
at an everage pace one can read the bible
out loud in seventy hours and forty minutes.
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