Old Testament Statistics - New American Bible compiled by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. Several other websites list the number of chapters and verses in each book of the Bible. Almost all of these websites, however, base their statistics on the King James Version (KJV) or a related Protestant translation of the Bible (such as the RSV or NRSV). the "Old Testament," they usually do not include the "Apocrypha" or "Deuterocanonical Books" (Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach/Ecclesiastes, and Baruch). Yet these seven books, as well as additional chapters in the books of Esther and Daniel, are also considered "canonical" (part of the Bible) by Catholics and Orthodox Christians throughout the world. There are also many slight differences in the number of verses per chapter and/or the total number of verses and chapters in various modern English translations of the Bible, due to discrepancies in the versifications of the Hebrew Bible (HB), the Septuagint (LXX), the Vulgate (Vulg), and other ancient
For a detailed analysis of these many differences, please see the related webpage: OT Statistics Compared (warning: large page; may take some time to download). The tables below, using the order in which the 46 OT books are normally arranged in Catholic Bibles, provide the following statistics, based on the New Total Number of Chapters and Verses in the Old Testament (NAB)Heb. חרצבות, an expression of tying, as (Isa. 58:6): “to undo the fetters (חרצבות) of wickedness,” meaning the locks of the fetters with which they bind the poor. Here, too, there are no pains to their death. Those who die among them die healthy, [strong as] a palace, without pains. But our Rabbis explained חַרְצֻבּוֹת as an abbreviation, meaning that they are not (שאין) frightened (חרדין) or saddened (עצבין) by the day of death (Shab. 31b). Another explanation: that the Holy One, blessed be He, does not delay (מאחר) their desire (צביונם).
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