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Originally Posted by HarryT
Isn't that better for reading, though? "Chapters" and "verses" are, after all, a completely artificial system introduced in the middle ages - they very often have little or no correspondence with the natural "breaks" in the text. Presumably it is the text that one wishes to read, rather than stopping at an arbitrary point where someone decided to "end" a verse?
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It is an arbitrary system, but when it comes to finding stuff in the Bible it has become the universally used reference system, so it would be very handy for people needing to find Bible references to be able to use it.