What, by number of verses is the longest book in the Old Testament?
"and verse numbers from existing translations. The number of words can vary depending upon aspects such as whether the Hebrew alphabet in Psalm 119, the superscriptions listed in some of the Psalms, and the subscripts traditionally found at the end of the Pauline epistles, are included. Except where stated, the following apply to the King James Version of the Bible in its modern 66-book Protestant form including the New Testament and the protocanonical Old Testament, not the deuterocanonical books. Chapters and verses of the Bible The Bible is a compilation of many shorter books written at different times by a"
"Old Testament The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God. The second part of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. The books that comprise the Old Testament canon, as well as their order and names, differ between Christian denominations. The Catholic canon comprises 46 books, and the canons of the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches comprise up to 51 books and the most"
"as the basis for comparison). Of the total of 1,289 verses changed in the Old Testament, 25 correspond to the additions of Book of Moses chapter 1, and 662 occur in the Book of Genesis. Hence, more than half of the changed verses in the JST Old Testament and 20 percent of those in the entire JST Bible are contained in Moses chapter 1 and Genesis, with the most extensive modifications occurring in Genesis chapters 1–24. As a proportion of page count, changes in Genesis occur four times more frequently than in the New Testament and twenty-one times more frequently"
"Revelation it agrees with Codex Ephraemi against Sinaiticus and Papyrus 47. In the Book of Revelation and in several books of the Old Testament, it has the best text of all manuscripts. In the Old Testament its text often agrees with Codex Sinaiticus. In Genesis 5:25 it reads ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΟΓΔΟΗΚΟΝΤΑ ΕΠΤΑ ΕΤΗ (""187 years""), Vaticanus reads – ΕΚΑΤΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΕΞΗΚΟΝΤΑ ΕΠΤΑ ΕΤΗ (""167 years""); In Deuteronomy 31:15 it reads εν στυλω (""in a pillar"") for εν νεφελη (""in a cloud""); In Joshua 11:42 it reads ελαβεν (""took"") for επαταξεν (""struck""); In Joshua 11:1 it reads μαδων (""maroon"") for μαρρων"
"Epistle of Jude The Epistle of Jude, often shortened to Jude, is the penultimate book of the New Testament and is traditionally attributed to Jude, the servant of Jesus and the brother of James the Just. The letter of Jude was one of the disputed books of the Canon. The links between the Epistle and 2 Peter, its use of the Apocryphal Books, and its brevity raised concern. It is one of the shortest books in the Bible: only 25 verses long. Jude urges his readers to defend the deposit of Christ's doctrine that had been closed by the time"
"Luke 1 Luke 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. With 80 verses, it is one of the longest chapters in the New Testament. This chapter describes the events leading up to the birth of Jesus. The unnamed author of Luke names its recipient, Theophilus, who is most likely a real (but unknown) person or could simply mean a fellow believer, since ""theo"" ""philus"" is Greek for God lover. Acts of the Apostles, the companion volume of Luke, is addressed to Theophilus in the same way. The title ""The"
"Book of Job The Book of Job (; Hebrew: אִיוֹב ""Iyov"") is a book in the Ketuvim (""Writings"") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Addressing the problem of theodicy – the vindication of the justice of God in the light of humanity's suffering – it is a rich theological work setting out a variety of perspectives. It has been widely praised for its literary qualities, with Alfred, Lord Tennyson calling it ""the greatest poem of ancient and modern times"". The Book of Job consists of a prose"
"Al-Baqara The Cow or Sūrah al-Baqarah (, ""The Cow"") is the second and longest chapter (Surah) of the Qur'an. It consists of 286 verses, 6201 words and 25500 letters . It is a Mediniite surah, that is to say that it was revealed at Medina after the Hijrah, with the exception of a few verses which Muslims believe was revealed during the Farewell Pilgrimage, the last Hajj of Muhammad. This is the longest Surah in the Quran. It was the first Surah to be revealed at Medina, but different verses were revealed at different times, covering quite a long period"
"Codex Cairensis The Codex Cairensis (also: ""Codex Prophetarum Cairensis"", ""Cairo Codex of the Prophets"") is a Hebrew manuscript containing the complete text of the Hebrew Bible Nevi'im (prophets). It has been described as ""the oldest dated Hebrew Codex of the Bible which has come down to us"". It contains the books of the Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) and Latter Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the book of the Twelve Minor Prophets). It comprises 575 pages including 13 carpet pages. According to its colophon, it was written complete with punctuation by Moses ben Asher in Tiberias ""at the"
"Until the discovery by Tischendorf of the Sinaiticus text, the Codex was unrivaled. It was extensively used by Westcott and Hort in their edition of ""The New Testament in the Original Greek"" in 1881. The most widely sold editions of the Greek New Testament are largely based on the text of the Codex Vaticanus. Codex Vaticanus is regarded as ""the oldest extant copy of the Bible."" Codex Vaticanus originally contained a virtually complete copy of the Septuagint (""LXX""), lacking only 1-4 Maccabees and the Prayer of Manasseh. The original 20 leaves containing Genesis 1:1–46:28a (31 leaves) and Psalm 105:27–137:6b have"
"Book of Deuteronomy The Book of Deuteronomy (literally ""second law,"" from Greek ""deuteros"" + ""nomos"") is the fifth book of the Christian Old Testament and of the Jewish Torah, where it is called ""Devarim"" (Heb. ספר דברים). Chapters 1–30 of the book consist of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land. The first sermon recounts the forty years of wilderness wanderings which had led to that moment, and ends with an exhortation to observe the law (or teachings), later referred to as the Law of"
"Book of Obadiah The Book of Obadiah is an oracle concerning the divine judgment of Edom and the restoration of Israel. The text consists of a single chapter, divided into 21 verses, making it the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible. In Judaism and Christianity, its authorship is attributed to a prophet who lived in the Assyrian Period and named himself in the first verse, Obadiah. His name means ""servant of Yahweh"". In Judaism, Obadiah is considered a ""later prophet"", placed in the last section (Nevi'im) of the Tanakh, where it is one of the ""Twelve Prophets."" In Christianity, the"
"of Christian Bibles is called the Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the above 24 books but divided into 39 books and ordered differently. The Catholic Church and Eastern Christian churches also hold that certain deuterocanonical books and passages are part of the Old Testament canon. The second part is the New Testament, containing 27 books; the four Canonical gospels, Acts of the Apostles, 21 Epistles or letters and the Book of Revelation. The King James Bible—which has been called ""the most influential version of the most influential book in the world, in what is now its most influential language"""
"Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, ""Míshlê (Shlomoh)"", ""Proverbs (of Solomon)"") is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became Παροιμίαι ""Paroimiai"" (""Proverbs""); in the Latin Vulgate the title was ""Proverbia"", from which the English name is derived. Proverbs is not merely an anthology but a ""collection of collections"" relating to a pattern of life which lasted for more than a millennium. It is an"
"of one individual at the time. The portion of the codex held by the British Library consists of 346½ folios, 694 pages (38.1 cm x 34.5 cm), constituting over half of the original work. Of these folios, 199 belong to the Old Testament, including the apocrypha (deuterocanonical), and 147½ belong to the New Testament, along with two other books, the Epistle of Barnabas and part of The Shepherd of Hermas. The apocryphal books present in the surviving part of the Septuagint are 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 4 Maccabees, Wisdom, and Sirach. The books of the New Testament are"
"24,000 verses called simply ""Bhārata"". The ""Mahābhārata"" is the longest epic poem known and has been described as ""the longest poem ever written"". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 ""śloka"" or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the ""Mahābhārata"" is roughly ten times the length of the ""Iliad"" and the ""Odyssey"" combined, or about four times the length of the ""Rāmāyaṇa"". W. J. Johnson has compared the importance of the ""Mahābhārata"" in the context of world civilization to that of the Bible, the works"
"Gospel of Luke The Gospel According to Luke (), also called the Gospel of Luke, or simply Luke, is the third of the four canonical Gospels. It tells of the origins, birth, ministry, atonement, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Luke is the longest of the four gospels and the longest book in the New Testament; together with Acts of the Apostles it makes up a two-volume work from the same author, called Luke–Acts. The cornerstone of Luke–Acts' theology is ""salvation history"", the author's understanding that God's purpose is seen in the way he has acted, and will continue"
"in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as ""Beati inmaculati in via qui ambulant in lege Domini."" The psalm is a hymn psalm. With 176 verses, the psalm is the longest psalm as well as the longest chapter in the Bible. It is a prayer of one who delights in and lives by the Torah, the sacred law. Unlike most other psalms the author did not include his name in the text. The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant liturgies. It has been set to music often. Following is the Hebrew"
"of Proverbs"": Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs (Hebrew: מִשְלֵי, ""Míshlê (Shlomoh)"", ""Proverbs (of Solomon)"") is the second book of the third section (called Writings) of the Hebrew Bible and a book of the Christian Old Testament. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX) it became Παροιμίαι ""Paroimiai"" (""Proverbs""); in the Latin Vulgate the title was ""Proverbia"", from which the English name is derived. Proverbs is not merely an anthology but a ""collection of collections"" relating to a pattern of life which lasted for more than a millennium. It"
"it directly. The oldest list of books for the New Testament canon is the Muratorian fragment dating to c. 170. It shows that by 200 there existed a set of Christian writings somewhat similar to what is now the 27-book New Testament, which included the four gospels. Thus, while there was debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the current books of the New Testament were accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 2nd century, with the exception of James, Hebrews, and 2nd Peter. However, these 3 books were also agreed upon and recognized"
"Book of Alma The Book of Alma: The Son of Alma (), usually referred to as the Book of Alma, is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon. The title refers to Alma the Younger, a prophet and ""chief judge"" of the Nephites. The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters. The book records the first 39 years of what the Nephites termed ""the reign of the judges"", a period in which the Nephite nation adopted a constitutional theocratic government in which the judicial"
"Psalm 132 Psalm 132 (psalm 131 in the Vulgate) is the 132nd psalm from the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible. It is the longest of 15 psalms which begin with the words ""A song of ascents"" (Shir Hama'alot). This psalm has 18 verses. The New Revised Standard Version associates it with ""the Eternal Dwelling of God in Zion"". The Jerusalem Bible describes it as a ""messianic hymn"" and an ""anniversary hymn"" recalling the finding and translation of the Ark of the Covenant, which are recounted in 1 Samuel 6 and 2 Samuel 6 in the Hebrew Bible. The"
"Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh (; , or ; also ""Tenakh"", ""Tenak"", ""Tanach"") or Mikra, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also the textual source for the Christian Old Testament. These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew, with some passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few others). The form of this text that is authoritative for Rabbinic Judaism is known as the Masoretic Text (MT), and is divided into 24 books, while the Protestant Bible translations divide the same material into 39 books. Modern scholars seeking"
"Muratorian fragment The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon or Canon Muratori, is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in a 7th or 8th century codex from the library of Columbanus's monastery at Bobbio Abbey; it contains features suggesting it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century. Both the degraded condition of the manuscript and the poor Latin in which it was written have made"
"different ""Coptic Apocalypse of Peter"", the latter of which, unlike the former, was Gnostic. The author also includes the Book of Wisdom, ""written by the friends of Solomon in his honour"" [line 70] in the canon. According to ""The Catholic Encyclopaedia"", lines of the Muratorian fragment are preserved in ""some other manuscripts"", including codices of Paul's Epistles at the abbey of Monte Cassino. Muratorian fragment The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon or Canon Muratori, is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85"
"intertestamental period in the chronology of the Christian scriptures between the Old and New Testaments. This period is known to Protestants as the ""400 Silent Years"" because it is believed to have been a span where God made no additional canonical revelations to his people. . Protestant Bibles comprise 39 books of the Old Testament (according to the Jewish Hebrew Bible canon, known especially to non-Protestants as the protocanonical books) and the 27 books of the New Testament for a total of 66 books. These books with their commonly accepted names among the Protestant churches are given below. Note that"
"(mss); 24:7; 28:29; Romans 16:24. It contains Matthew 12:47; Some manuscripts of the Bohairic version contains verses: 17: 21; 18:11; 23:14; Mark 11:26; 15:28; John 5:4; 7:53-8:11; Acts 15:34; In Acts 27:37 it reads ""one hundred seventy six"" for ""two hundred seventy six"". The original {Old} Bohairic version is well represented by manuscripts. More than a hundred of manuscripts have survived. All have the last twelve verses of Mark. The Bohairic version was employed by Mill for his edition of 1707. It was first published in 1716 by Wilkins, who edited ""Novum Testamentum Aegyptium vulgo Copticum"". His edition was accompanied"
"that there are 5,888 verses in the Torah. (Note that others say the middle letter in our current Torah text is the ""aleph"" () in ""hu"", (""he""), in the middle two words are ""el yesod"", (""at the base of""), in the half-way point of the verses in the Torah is and there are 5,846 verses in the Torah text we have today.) The Sifra taught that the goat of the sin-offering about which Moses inquired in was the goat brought by Nachshon ben Aminadav, as reported in 16. The Mishnah deduced from that those in the first stage of mourning"
"Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament is a retelling of the Old Testament in Middle English rhyme for lay people, dated to the early fifteenth century, c. 1400-1410. Over 18,000 verses long, it exists in two manuscripts from the middle of the fifteenth century, both written in a Northern dialect from the Yorkshire area. The poem contains 1531 stanzas of twelve lines usually rhyming ABABABABCDCD, for a total of 18,372 verses. The stanzas consist of three quatrains, the first two in tetrameter, the last in trimeter. The two manuscripts"
"4Q41 4Q41 or 4QDeuteronomy (often abbreviated 4QDeut or 4QDt), also known as the All Souls Deuteronomy is a Hebrew Bible manuscript from the first century BC containing two passages from the Book of Deuteronomy. Discovered in 1952 in a cave at Qumran, near the Dead Sea, it preserves the oldest existing copy of the Ten Commandments. The scroll was found in the fourth Qumran cave, which was discovered by Ta’amireh bedouin in August 1952. It was later purchased for ""several thousand dollars"" on the black market by Frank Moore Cross and Roland de Vaux with money supplied by an anonymous"
"""The Holy Bible"" (in Greek , ) or ""the Holy Scriptures"" (, ). The Bible was divided into chapters in the 13th century by Stephen Langton and it was divided into verses in the 16th century by French printer Robert Estienne and is now usually cited by book, chapter, and verse. The division of the Hebrew Bible into verses is based on the ""sof passuk"" cantillation mark used by the 10th-century Masoretes to record the verse divisions used in earlier oral traditions. The oldest extant copy of a complete Bible is an early 4th-century parchment book preserved in the Vatican"
"(although not the longest in the Torah), and is made up of 7,424 Hebrew letters, 2,002 Hebrew words, and 139 verses, and can occupy about 245 lines in a Torah scroll (, ""Sefer Torah""). (The longest parashah in the Torah is Naso.) Jews read it on the 21st Sabbath after Simchat Torah, in the Hebrew month of Adar, corresponding to February or March in the secular calendar. Jews also read the first part of the parashah, regarding the half-shekel head tax, as the maftir Torah reading on the special Sabbath Shabbat Shekalim (as on March 1, 2014, when was read"
"the 4th century CE and the Codex Alexandrinus of the 5th century. These are indeed the oldest surviving nearly complete manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete Hebrew texts date some 600 years later, from the first half of the 10th century. The 4th century Codex Sinaiticus also partially survives, still containing many texts of the Old Testament. While there are differences between these three codices, scholarly consensus today holds that one Septuagint—that is, the original pre-Christian translation—underlies all three. The various Jewish and later Christian revisions and recensions are largely responsible for the divergence"