2006-12-15 14:24:49 · 6 answers · asked by falcosponge 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To aid in study and reading.
2006-12-15 14:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by Juliart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the length of the Bible, running over 3.6 million words, trying to find something within it would be nearly impossible. So to make it easier to find a particular line, the lines were "numbered". The same is often done to poetry and other types of literature for the same reason. The verse numbering in the Bible was not added until the 1500s, during the Protestant Reformation.
2006-12-15 22:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hebrew Bible is divided into chapters and verses in the original manuscripts, presumably for ease of reference. "The conventional verse divisions in the New Testament date only from 1551 and have no basis in the manuscripts." These divisions in the New Testament were originally found in the Geneva Bible, a Protestant translation of the Bible that contained Reformed commentary.
2006-12-16 01:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by wozzeck33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this was done when they made up the official Canon for easier reading.
2006-12-15 22:29:49 · answer #4 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes it easier to reference.
2006-12-15 22:30:04 · answer #5 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it started to keep it easy to print, then to study and cross referance
2006-12-15 22:29:52 · answer #6 · answered by gary d 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋