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The division of the books of The Bible into chapters, and the numbering of the lines into 'verses' was done to make it easy to refer to them, and to standardise the references... it would never have been possible to say "Page 53" - as each handwritten bible had different text on page 53. Much easier to say "Chapter 3, verse 14 of the Book of ...."

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Q: Why are passages from the bible broken into chapter and verse?
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