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Who
decided that the English Bible should have been divided into chapters
and verses?
To
answer your question, no one really made the decision to divide the Bible
into chapters and verses, insofar as anyone in particular. This basically
became a necessity as people began quoting from it and had to provide
a specific source. Both among Jews and Christians, they began dividing
the Bible into chapters and verses. By and large, they were divided mostly
along the same lines. Now and then the Hebrew text disagrees with the
verse and chapter divisions from the Christian Bible, but that is not
very frequent.
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