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who put chapters and verses in the K.J.V bible
Have you ever thought of who divide up the bible in chapters and verses? Who did that? Because the oringinal was one big sentence.
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The original wasn't a single sentence, but you're right that the Hebrew old testament doesn't use punctuation marks. The Torah is broken into books, and the later writings are separate pieces. Some of the Greek and Latin writings that went into the New Testament would have used punctuation, but the originals are all lost.
The Hebrews broke the bible into chapters for daily readings. Christians followed similar notions, and the Latin Vulgate introduced chapters similar to the ones you see today. That was done by St. Jerome, who assembled and translated the Vulgate, in the 4th century.
The verses came later, much later. The Jews added a kind of punctuation to the Old Testament that aided in singing it; that breaks it into phrases and paragraphs. The Christian translators began to add chapter marks in the 16th century, and by the time of the crucial King James translation it was standard practice.
The versification isn't canonical; there is no absolute authority for it. It's just an aid to reading. There are alternate versifications, just as there are different translations. But they generally agree, which is convenient for comparing translations.
The Hebrews broke the bible into chapters for daily readings. Christians followed similar notions, and the Latin Vulgate introduced chapters similar to the ones you see today. That was done by St. Jerome, who assembled and translated the Vulgate, in the 4th century.
The verses came later, much later. The Jews added a kind of punctuation to the Old Testament that aided in singing it; that breaks it into phrases and paragraphs. The Christian translators began to add chapter marks in the 16th century, and by the time of the crucial King James translation it was standard practice.
The versification isn't canonical; there is no absolute authority for it. It's just an aid to reading. There are alternate versifications, just as there are different translations. But they generally agree, which is convenient for comparing translations.
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