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When and where was the Bible first divided up into chapters and verses?

Question #108095. Asked by picqero.
Last updated Sep 09 2016.

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The Bible was not originally inspired with divisions by chapter and verse. The ancient manuscripts didn't have them. One man,Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro,started to do this from 1244 to 1248 A.D.

link http://www.biblestudy.org/question/when-was-bible-divided-into-chapters-verses.html

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible

Also Stephen Cardinal Langton (c. 1150 – 9 July 1228) was Archbishop of Canterbury between 1207 and his death in 1228.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Langton

Aug 18 2009, 8:14 AM
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With the passage of time, however, the need arose in connection with biblical texts to delimit the sections that were about the size of large paragraphs, both because of the necessity to be able readily to locate a passage in the text and because of the desirability to have units of this magnitude stand out clearly. Thus in the Old Testament, even as far back as the time of Qumran, the text was divided into sections called parashoth.

Verse divisions within these parashoth came in during the Mishnaic period (c. A.D. 200) when it was necessary to intersperse the Hebrew reading with an Aramaic translation so the hearers could understand. The amount of Hebrew that was read before the translation was given in Aramaic became the verse divisions in the the Old Testament, and around A.D. 500 these were signified by the soph pasuq ( : ) that still appear in the Hebrew text.

link http://documents.fuller.edu/ministry/berean/chs_vss.htm

Response last updated by Terry on Sep 09 2016.
Aug 18 2009, 8:26 AM
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