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Old 11-17-2006, 08:15 PM   #44
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Okay, here's my conundrum for doing the Daily Bible Readings, courtesy of the statistics at http://www.marshcommentary.com/stats/...

Relevant stats are:
* Total OT chapters (minus Ps & Pr) = 929 - 150 - 31 = 748
* Total chapters in Ps = 150
* Total verses in Pr = 915
* Total NT chapters = 260

Per day OT = 748/365 (about 2.05)
Per day NT = 260/365 (about 0.71)

So dividing them up in 365 pieces is not so easy to do without causing artificial breaks (Pr, Ps, NT especially), or some kind of repeating pattern of skipping three out of ten days (e.g. for NT again).

My conclusion is that it's probably not the best way to break it up by fixed rules after all.

Anyone have any clever solutions I missed?

Note: If someone wants to see stats for the Catholic version of the Bible (with additional canonical books), they can find the equivalent info at http://www.catholic-resources.org/Bi...istics-NAB.htm and http://www.catholic-resources.org/Bi...tics-Greek.htm
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