Versification

Versification (Bible)

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Versification is the process by which a text such as the Bible is divided into chapters and verses. The Bible was originally written without these, and thus versification forms part of the Bible's paratext.
[edit] 1 History

The verses in the Hebrew Bible were added by the Masoretes, while verse numbering came later when Robert Estienne introduced them into his 1551 edition of the Greek New Testament and then into his French translation of the whole Bible.
[edit] 2 Implications

Versification makes particular sections of the Bible easier to find and to memorise. The arbitrary division of the new testament into verses in the 16th century is sometimes mistakenly interpreted as if the placement of this verse numbering system were equivalent to a placement of logical pauses (commas) or full stops (periods).
[edit] 3 External links

Alternate Versification – CrossWire Bible Society wiki

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[edit] Proposed merger

I don't see the point of this page, and therefore propose that it be merged and redirected to Chapters and verses of the Bible. The external link currently provided does not serve as a citation for the page content, and is itself so arcane and technical that it is unlikely to help most readers. Therefore "forms part of the Bible's paratext" may be the only bit worth merging. - Fayenatic (talk) 19:56, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Merge: In looking at the history of this article, my guess is that original wiki editor was not aware of Chapters and Verses of the Bible. Whilst the two topics do refer to different things, given the history of both articles, I doubt either will be developed well enough for the general reader to grok the difference between the two topics. p (talk) 18:13, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes Done The original version did include a link to that page. I guess this page was created for the purpose of disambiguation; if so, a redirect achieves that. - Fayenatic (talk) 14:17, 30 June 2011 (UTC)


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