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66Books

1,189Chapters

31,102Verses

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The Law 5 Moses and the beginning

Genesis 50 Exodus 40 Leviticus 27 Numbers 36 Deuteronomy 34

History 12 A nation, its kings and exile

Joshua 24 Judges 21 Ruth 4 1 Samuel 31 2 Samuel 24 1 Kings 22 2 Kings 25 1 Chronicles 29 2 Chronicles 36 Ezra 10 Nehemiah 13 Esther 10

Wisdom & Poetry 5 Songs, proverbs, hard questions

Job 42 Psalms 150 Proverbs 31 Ecclesiastes 12 Song of Solomon 8

Major Prophets 5 Warning, exile and hope

Isaiah 66 Jeremiah 52 Lamentations 5 Ezekiel 48 Daniel 12

Minor Prophets 12 Twelve shorter voices

Hosea 14 Joel 3 Amos 9 Obadiah 1 Jonah 4 Micah 7 Nahum 3 Habakkuk 3 Zephaniah 3 Haggai 2 Zechariah 14 Malachi 4

The Gospels 4 Four accounts of Jesus

Matthew 28 Mark 16 Luke 24 John 21

Acts 1 The church begins

Acts 28

The Letters 21 Written to real congregations

Romans 16 1 Corinthians 16 2 Corinthians 13 Galatians 6 Ephesians 6 Philippians 4 Colossians 4 1 Thessalonians 5 2 Thessalonians 3 1 Timothy 6 2 Timothy 4 Titus 3 Philemon 1 Hebrews 13 James 5 1 Peter 5 2 Peter 3 1 John 5 2 John 1 3 John 1 Jude 1

Revelation 1 How it ends

Revelation 22

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The study notes, dictionary formatting and reading tools on this site were built for the Christo Samuel Bible. They are not to be copied or reproduced elsewhere. If you spot an error, please let me know — I am always glad to correct or update them.

Scripture text is free to copy and share. The World English Bible is public domain. Cross-references are derived from the OpenBible.info dataset under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Dictionary entries are adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) and Webster's Dictionary (1913), both public domain.

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