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Scripture by the Numbers

A statistical journey through all 66 books of the King James Bible

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The Long & The Short

Extremes across all 66 books

Words per Book

All 66 books ranked by total word count — hover a bar for details

Old Testament (39 books)
New Testament (27 books)

Old Testament vs New Testament

Old Testament
Books 39
Chapters
Verses
Words
Avg words/verse
Longest book
Shortest book
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New Testament
Books 27
Chapters
Verses
Words
Avg words/verse
Longest book
Shortest book

Share of Total Words

Share of Total Verses

Chapters per Book

How many chapters does each book contain, in biblical order?

Verse Length vs Chapter Density

Each point is a book. Hover to explore. X axis: average verses per chapter — Y axis: average words per verse.

Old Testament
New Testament

Top 10 Rankings

By Word Count

By Verse Count

Longest Average Verse (words)

Most Verses per Chapter (avg)

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Data sourced from the King James Version via scrollmapper/bible_databases.

Word counts are approximations based on space-delimited tokens.