Interesting Facts about the Bible

 

Interesting Facts about the Bible 

The Bible has 66 books; 39 in the Old Testament, 

27 in the New. It has 1,189 chapters; 929 in the Old Testa-

ment, 26o in the New. It has 31,173 verses; 23,214 in the 

Old Testament, 7,959 in the New. The Apocrypha has 14 

books, 183 chapters, 6,081 verses. The middle verses of 

the Old Testament are 2 Chron. 20 : 17, 18; of the New 

Testament, Acts 17 : ; of the Bible, Ps. 118 : 8. The 

original language of the Old Testament is Hebrew with the 

exception of Ezra 4 : 8 to 6: 18 and 7: 12-26; Jer. to: it; 

Dan. 2 : 4 to 7:28, which are Aramaic, or Chaldaic. The 

New Testament is Greek, not classical Greek, but Judao-

Greek, or Greek modified by the Hebrew.