Hey Guys,
I have come across two bibles that are missing 1 Samuel 13:1
The Bible in Basic English and The Good News Bible
I was doing a compare of 1 Samuel 13:1 and I noticed that those two bibles that are in E-sword were not in the compare list, so I went to each one individually and both bibles start at verse 2, with verse 1 just not there.
is there any rhyme or reason for this, and are there other translations that are also missing verse 1?
As always thanks.
It's not so much as Bibles are missing verses; rather it's the way the verses have been arranged.
Some translations have combined verses into another verse, or have even simply cut out a verse and added the text into another verse.
You must remember that Chapter and Verse divisions are relatively a "modern" invention. Here is an article from Got Questions on the historicity of Chapter and Verse divisions:
The chapter divisions commonly used today were developed by Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury. Langton put the modern chapter divisions into place in around A.D. 1227. The Wycliffe English Bible of 1382 was the first Bible to use this chapter pattern. Since the Wycliffe Bible, nearly all Bible translations have followed Langton’s chapter divisions.
The Hebrew Old Testament was divided into verses by a Jewish rabbi by the name of Nathan in A.D. 1448. Robert Estienne, who was also known as Stephanus, was the first to divide the New Testament into standard numbered verses, in 1555. Stephanus essentially used Nathan’s verse divisions for the Old Testament. Since that time, beginning with the Geneva Bible, the chapter and verse divisions employed by Stephanus have been accepted into nearly all the Bible versions.
Note that there is not an actual official agreed set standard as to how many chapters and verses there should be in the Bible. The Roman Catholic Bible and the Tanakh (Jewish OT) has 1 extra chapter (psalm) in the Book of Psalms. It can be as many as whatever you may want to have, or not have if that's the way you want to go. And that I find amazing.
Trust you find this information helpful to you.
Blessings,