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The Bible contains 66 books, written by 44 authors over a period of about 1500 years. The 39 books of the Old Testament were composed between 1400 and 400 B.C., the 27 books of the New Testament between A.D. 50 and 100. How many Bibles do you think are sold in one year? 150 million! There are over 4 billion Bibles in print. Shouldn’t you know what’s inside? The entire Bible divided into chapters and verses first appeared in the Geneva Bible of 1560.
Almonds and pistachios are the only nuts mentioned in the Bible.
Salt is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible.
Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, named in the Bible's Book of Revelation, are Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death.
There are 49 different foods mentioned in the Bible.
Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except "J."
The longest word in the Bible is Mahershalalhashbaz which is 18 letters long and can be found in Isaiah 8:1 and 8:3. It means "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil."
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