About the Bible
Number of books in the Bible: 66
– The Old Testament: 39 books
– New Testament: 27 books
Number of chapters in the Bible: 1189
The Old Testament: Chapter 929
– The New Testament-Chapter 259
If you read 3 chapters a day, you will read the Bible in 13 months
Bible Translations
– On our planet, about 6.9 billion people speak more than 6,900 languages
– There is a fully or partially translated Bible in 2508 languages
– Bible translation has not started in 2525 languages yet
One Bible is printed every second in the world
The number of Bibles published in the 20th century alone reaches tens of billions
The Bible counts՝
– the most expensive book in the world – The Codex Sinai (an ancient manuscript of the Bible) was sold to Great Britain in 1923 by the Soviet government for $ 510 thousand
– the cheapest – no book has had such a large number of free examples
– it is clear to everyone: adults and small, educated and invincible, kings and ordinary people
– written in a variety of literary genres: historiography, lyrics, correspondence, edifying treatises, parable, allegory, etc
– the number of authors with the largest number was written by more than 40 authors: kings (Solomon, David), pastors (Amos), doctors (Luke), fishermen (Peter, John), generals (Joshua), leaders (Moses) and others
– written in the longest time has been written for more than 1500 years
– the most complete and written without contradictions
– there are no other examples in history when for 2000 years there were so many cruel persecutions against any book and state laws were issued, in case of violation of which people will be sentenced to death.