no, he got a bible by getting the blue, yellow, and red tickets from other kids
Yes, in Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," Tom does earn a Bible by memorizing 2,000 verses of scripture. He was able to accomplish this task and win The Bible as a prize in Sunday School.
Tom Sawyer trades small trinkets like marbles and pieces of string in exchange for tickets that can be redeemed for Bible verses. He does this as part of a school incentive program to encourage children to memorize Scripture verses.
Tom Sawyer wants a bible as a reward for memorizing a certain number of Bible verses in Sunday school. He sees it as a symbol of achievement and a way to show off in front of his peers.
Beth Short has written: 'Memorizing Bible verses with games & crafts' -- subject(s): Bible, Bible crafts, Bible games and puzzles, Memorizing
The ticket that Tom gave to Mr. Walters in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" was yellow. This ticket was for memorizing Bible verses, which Tom won as a prize for collecting a specified number of tickets.
Chapter 12 in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" provides comic relief from the previous events by focusing on Tom's mischief in church. His attempts to win a Bible by memorizing various scripture verses and his eventual success through trickery provide a lighthearted and humorous contrast to the more serious and intense moments in the story.
When someone says verses, they normally mean a few verses. Scripture is normally like a chapter, or several verses. It is the same thing thow, just different amounts of The Word.
Tom gets the kids to give him small trinkets like marbles and pieces of string in exchange for tickets he received for memorizing Bible verses.
to win a bible
In Ephesians charter 4 verses 31 and 32 does talk about scripture. This is in the Bible.
Not in its entirety but you will read verses of Scripture. Here is a link for you that has many 'versions' of the Bible for your reading pleasure:
The word "shepherd" appears in 42 verses of the KJV bible.
Tom didn't memorize any Bible verses. In his church children received "tickets" as they memorized verse and could trade them in for a prize (a Bible) when enough were learned. Tom found children who did memorize verses and get tickets would trade them away for other things. He thus had an imposing number of tickets with no memory work whatsoever