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• The Bible is considered the foundational collection of documents for the Christian faith. Online versions of the Bible are available from many websites. Most sites have multiple versions available, allowing for some comparisons between versions. Online Bibles also allow the user to search for content based on specific key words or phrases in each particular Bible version.

• Fast Facts

  1. 66 books are contained in the Bible
  2. 49 books in the Old Testament
  3. 27 books in the New Testament
  4. Composed by 40 different authors
  5. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek
  6. 1189 Chapters in the Bible
  7. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter
  8. Psalm 117 is the shortest chapter
  9. Esther 8: 9 is the longest Bible verse
  10. John 11: 35 is the shortest Bible verse

• Bible Versions

  1. The Tanakh is a version used in Judaism that shares many similarities with the Christian Old Testament
  2. The Old Testament is a modified version of the Tanakh that serves as the first half of the Christian Bible
  3. The New Testament is the second half of the Christian Bible, distinguished by the stories about Jesus of Nazareth and his teachings
  4. The King James Bible is the most circulated version, translated into English in 1604 by the Church of England
  5. Translations are actual word-for-word or phrase-for-phrase translations from the original languages
  6. A paraphrase is simply a re-telling of a translation in the author's own words and is not a true translation
  7. The Catholic Douay-Rheims Bible contains the Apocrypha, a collection of books not found in the Protestant versions

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