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How Do you find a reference?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 7/17/2023

The Bible is organized into books, chapters and verses. If you know the "address" of the verse or reference, you can look it up by finding the page number of the book in the table of contents, going to the beginning of the book, count the chapters to the one you want and then count the verses to the one you want.

If you do not know the address of the reference, you can use what is called a concordance. A concordance is a list of key words listed in alphabetical order with book, chapter and verse locations for each. (Many Bibles have abridged concordances in the back of The Bible itself. Otherwise you can find a Bible concordance at the library or your local book store.) If you know a key word like "Love" or "Abraham" you can look it up in the concordance, and then follow the instructions above for finding the book, chapter and verse. Often concordances will use abbreviations for books like Gen for Genesis or Rev for Revelation, so watch for that.

In addition, there are numerous Bible programs and websites that offer "searchable Bibles" where you can look up key words or phrases and it will automatically take you to the chapter and verse.

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Laila Emard

Lvl 10
2y ago

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