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According to the Talmudic tradition, the division of the text of the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament) into verses is of ancient origin.

The first Christian Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published in 1560, which preceded the King James translation by 51 years.

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