Bible Facts
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Fact 1 - The Holy Bible contains sacred writings of the Christian religion.
Fact 2 - The word "bible" comes from the Greek word biblia, meaning books. It is correctly called the Scriptures and the word of God.
Fact 3 - It was written by at least 40 different authors, in about 20 occupations, living in 10 countries spanning about 6000 miles.
Fact 4 - It was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek by some prophets, some fishermen, a tax collector, ect.
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Facts About the Bible are as follows:
Fact 1 - The Holy Bible contains sacred writings of the Christian religion.
Fact 2 - The word "bible" comes from the Greek word biblia, meaning books. It is correctly called the Scriptures and the word of God.
Fact 3 - It was written by at least 40 different authors, in about 20 occupations, living in 10 countries spanning about 6000 miles.
Fact 4 - It was written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek by some prophets, some fishermen, a tax collector, a herdsman, a philosopher, a doctor, a king, a statesman and a rabbi.
Fact 5 - 2,930 different characters are featured in the Bible.
Fact 6 - The KJV of the Bible consists of 66 books. There are 73 books in the Catholic Bible (the extra 7 books are mainly histories).
Fact 7 - The Bible is divided into two parts - the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Fact 8 - Old Testament is the first 39 books.
Fact 9 - The New Testament consists of 27 books.
Fact 10 - The Holy Bible contains 31,173 verses.
Fact 11 - It contains 773,692 words.
Fact 12 - It contains 3,566,480 letters.
Fact 13 - The Largest Book is Psalms.
Fact 14 - The smallest book is 3 John .
Fact 15 - The Bible focuses on Jesus Christ. The Old Testament looks forward to His coming and the New Testament details His life on Earth and looks forward for His coming again.
Fact 16 - The Bible was divided into chapters by Stephen Langton in 1228. The Old Testament was divided into verses by R. Nathan in 1488 and the New Testament by Robert Stephanus in 1551.
Fact 17 - There is one book of prophecy and it is Revelation, written by the apostle, John.
Fact 18 - The average time to read the following books is as follows: Revelation - 34 minutes,
Luke - 85 minutes and Philemon just 1 minute.
The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments were written by the hand of God in stone, in the form of two stone tablets. In the Bible Exodus 31:18 refers to the tablets containing the Ten Commandments as the "Tablets of Testimony" because they give insight into the nature of God. According to the Bible, there were two sets of the Ten Commandments. The first Ten Commandments, inscribed by God, were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping the Golden Calf (Exodus 32:4) The second set of the Ten Commandments were later cut by Moses and rewritten by God. The Ten Commandments are the basis for western law and justice.
Commandment 1: You shall have no other gods before me.
Commandment 2: You shall not make for yourself an idol.
Commandment 3: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God.
Commandment 4: Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
Commandment 5: Honor your father and mother.
Commandment 6: You shall not murder.
Commandment 7: You shall not commit adultery.
Commandment 8: You shall not steal.
Commandment 9: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Commandment 10: You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Bible Facts_95592.aspx
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Author Resource :
The King James Bible, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia, The Ten Commandments
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Keywords :
Bible, Ten Commandments, holy, words, letters, old, new, testament, verses, books, Psalms, large, Jude, revelation, king, doctor, philosopher,
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