He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" - Romans 8:32

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 

Verbose

Did you know that...

The Hebrew/Greek manuscripts have 612,483 words

The NIV has 726,133 words
The ESV has 757,439 words
The NASB has 782,815 words
The HCSB has 719, 089

- source taken from a 2007 ETS paper by Karen Jobes on Bible translations in which she mentions among other things the matter of verbosity.

- more interesting facts about the HCSB found in this article

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