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Who made the divisions into Chapters and Verses in the Bible?

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Who made the divisions into Chapters and Verses in the Bible?

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In the earliest Hebrew manuscripts the Bible was divided into verses, but the verses were not numbered and there was no division into chapters. The divisions into Chapters were added in Christian Bibles by the English Archbishop Stephen Langton in the 13th century. At first the Jews did not accept these artificial divisions and instead continued the ancient practice of referring to a Biblical passage by quoting the first few words of the verse. It was only later that the Jews adopted the Christian Chapter divisions for use in religious debates forced upon them by the Christian authorities. The Jews were compelled to find a method of citing verses that would be comprehensible to their Christian oppressors. The verse numbers were only adopted in an even later period and as a result different Bibles have different verse numbering systems to this day. The verse numbers in Hebrew Bibles are at times off by one or more verses from the English verse numbers. A common cause for this is that En

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