CURIOUS DISSECTION OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.

SHOWING THE NUMBER OF BOOKS, CHAPTERS, VERSES, WORDS, LETTERS, ETC.

      In the Old Testament.  In the New Testament.  Total.

Books              39   Books              27          66
Chapters          929   Chapters          260       1,189
Verses         23,814   Verses          7,959      81,178
Words         692,489   Words         281,258     773,697
Letters     2,728,100   Letters       838,880   3,566,480

Apocrypha—­chapters, 183; verses, 6,081; words, 152,185.

The middle chapter and the least in the Bible is Psalm cxvii.

The middle verse is the 8th of Psalm cxviii.

The middle line is in 16th verse, 4th chapter, 2 Chronicles.  The word and occurs in the Old Testament 35,543 times; in the New Testament, 10,684 times.

The word Jehovah occurs 6,855 times.

OLD TESTAMENT.

The middle book is Proverbs.

The middle chapter is Job xxix.

The middle verse would be in the 2d of Chronicles, 20th chapter, between the 17th and 18th verses.

The least verse is the 1st of Chronicles, 1st chapter, and 1st verse.

NEW TESTAMENT.

The middle book is 2 Thessalonians.

The middle chapter is between the 13th and 14th of Romans.

The middle verse is the 17th of Acts xvii.

The shortest verse is the 35th of John xi.

The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the letters of the alphabet.

The 19th chapter of 2 Kings, and the 37th of Isaiah, are alike.

It is stated that the above calculation took three years to complete.

REMARKABLE INSCRIPTION.

The following singular inscription is to be seen carved on a tomb situated at the entrance of the church of San Salvador, in the city of Oviedo.  The explanation is that the tomb was erected by a king named Silo, and the inscription is so written that it can be read 270 ways by beginning with the large S in the center.  The words are Latin, “Silo princeps fecit.”

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        I C E F S P E C N I N C E P S F E C I
        C E F S P E C N I R I N C E P S F E C
        E F S P E C N I R P R I N C E P S F E
        F S P E C N I R P O P R I N C E P S F
        S P E C N I R P O L O P R I N C E P S
        P C C N I R P O L I L O P R I N C E P
        E E N I R P O L I S I L O P R I N C E
        P E C N I R P O L I L O P R I N C E P
        S P E C N I R P O L O P R I N C E P S
        F S P E C N I R P O P R I N C E P S F
        E F S P E C N I R P R I N C E P S F E
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