Bible books
The longest gap of each book: the longest run of consecutive verses of the book that no citation names, in verses. A gap is counted inside one book only, never across the end of a book; a book without any citation has a gap of its whole length. By default a verse counts when a citation names it explicitly (counting rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE).
Verse sequence: Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering) (prot66.nrf). Counts and denominators depend on it.
Sections
- Old Testament
- New Testament
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Gap: consecutive verses of one book without a citation in the chosen data, counted inside the book only (never across a book end). A book without any citation counts its whole length. Every gap with a threshold: Citation gaps.
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| Book | Longest gap (verses) | Share of the book | Verses of the book | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 55 | 3.6% | 1,533 | GEN 42:2–GEN 43:18 |
| Exodus | 148 | 12.2% | 1,213 | EXO 35:30–EXO 40:1 |
| Leviticus | 72 | 8.4% | 859 | LEV 14:19–LEV 15:33 |
| Numbers | 132 | 10.2% | 1,289 | NUM 7:1–NUM 9:17 |
| Deuteronomy | 73 | 7.6% | 959 | DEU 28:13–DEU 29:17 |
| Joshua | 66 | 10% | 658 | JOS 18:11–JOS 19:48 |
| Judges | 51 | 8.3% | 618 | JDG 9:16–JDG 10:9 |
| Ruth | 51 | 60% | 85 | RUT 2:13–RUT 4:22 |
| 1 Samuel | 22 | 2.7% | 811 | 1SA 30:10–1SA 30:31 |
| 2 Samuel | 91 | 13.1% | 695 | 2SA 19:1–2SA 21:22 |
| 1 Kings | 46 | 5.6% | 817 | 1KI 2:4–1KI 3:3 |
| 2 Kings | 28 | 3.9% | 719 | 2KI 2:25–2KI 3:27 |
| 1 Chronicles | 286 | 30.3% | 943 | 1CH 4:11–1CH 11:8 |
| 2 Chronicles | 147 | 17.9% | 822 | 2CH 7:15–2CH 14:10 |
| Ezra | 63 | 22.5% | 280 | EZR 1:8–EZR 2:59 |
| Nehemiah | 79 | 19.5% | 406 | NEH 7:2–NEH 8:7 |
| Esther | 28 | 16.8% | 167 | EST 3:1–EST 4:13 |
| Job | 5 | 0.5% | 1,070 | JOB 26:1–JOB 26:5 |
| Psalms | 4 | 0.2% | 2,528 | PSA 64:5–PSA 64:8 |
| Proverbs | 10 | 1.1% | 915 | PRO 27:18–PRO 27:27 |
| Ecclesiastes | 1 | 0.5% | 222 | ECC 6:9 |
| Song of Songs | 2 | 1.7% | 117 | SNG 2:4–SNG 2:5 |
| Isaiah | 11 | 0.9% | 1,291 | ISA 44:9–ISA 44:19 |
| Jeremiah | 85 | 6.2% | 1,364 | JER 35:16–JER 38:28 |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6% | 154 | LAM 2:5 |
| Ezekiel | 17 | 1.3% | 1,273 | EZK 23:5–EZK 23:21 |
| Daniel | 3 | 0.8% | 357 | DAN 3:9–DAN 3:11 |
| Hosea | 2 | 1% | 197 | HOS 4:9–HOS 4:10 |
| Joel | 5 | 6.8% | 73 | JOL 1:14–JOL 1:18 |
| Amos | 2 | 1.4% | 146 | AMO 8:13–AMO 8:14 |
| Obadiah | 1 | 4.8% | 21 | OBA 1:7 |
| Jonah | 0 | 0% | 48 | – |
| Micah | 5 | 4.8% | 105 | MIC 6:10–MIC 6:14 |
| Nahum | 7 | 14.9% | 47 | NAM 2:1–NAM 2:7 |
| Habakkuk | 7 | 12.5% | 56 | HAB 1:6–HAB 1:12 |
| Zephaniah | 3 | 5.7% | 53 | ZEP 3:4–ZEP 3:6 |
| Haggai | 0 | 0% | 38 | – |
| Zechariah | 2 | 0.9% | 211 | ZEC 3:10–ZEC 4:1 |
| Malachi | 3 | 5.5% | 55 | MAL 1:12–MAL 1:14 |
| Matthew | 1 | 0.1% | 1,071 | MAT 11:1 |
| Mark | 3 | 0.4% | 678 | MRK 1:36–MRK 1:38 |
| Luke | 1 | 0.1% | 1,151 | LUK 4:37 |
| John | 0 | 0% | 879 | – |
| Acts | 4 | 0.4% | 1,006 | ACT 25:14–ACT 25:17 |
| Romans | 0 | 0% | 433 | – |
| 1 Corinthians | 2 | 0.5% | 437 | 1CO 12:29–1CO 12:30 |
| 2 Corinthians | 0 | 0% | 256 | – |
| Galatians | 0 | 0% | 149 | – |
| Ephesians | 0 | 0% | 155 | – |
| Philippians | 2 | 1.9% | 104 | PHP 1:16–PHP 1:17 |
| Colossians | 0 | 0% | 95 | – |
| 1 Thessalonians | 0 | 0% | 89 | – |
| 2 Thessalonians | 0 | 0% | 47 | – |
| 1 Timothy | 0 | 0% | 113 | – |
| 2 Timothy | 1 | 1.2% | 83 | 2TI 4:9 |
| Titus | 0 | 0% | 46 | – |
| Philemon | 1 | 4% | 25 | PHM 1:14 |
| Hebrews | 0 | 0% | 303 | – |
| James | 1 | 0.9% | 108 | JAS 2:6 |
| 1 Peter | 1 | 1% | 105 | 1PE 4:4 |
| 2 Peter | 2 | 3.3% | 61 | 2PE 1:14–2PE 1:15 |
| 1 John | 0 | 0% | 105 | – |
| 2 John | 0 | 0% | 13 | – |
| 3 John | 0 | 0% | 15 | – |
| Jude | 0 | 0% | 25 | – |
| Revelation | 3 | 0.7% | 405 | REV 18:12–REV 18:14 |
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How this was computed: rule CR-EXPLICIT-VERSE@1, profile official@2, epoch 100
- Metric
- Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
- Counting rule
- Like the baseline rule, but only references that name verses count; whole chapters and books are left out. The Top 100 verses use it, so a chapter reference does not lift every verse of the chapter. (definition)
- Profile
- The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
- One computation of all public numbers. A new epoch is computed every 15 minutes; its numbers are provisional until a data release is frozen. (definition)
- 100, published Nov 4, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC (provisional)
- The order of books, chapters and verses the chart follows: a canon with its verse numbering (versification). (definition)
prot66.nrf, The state of the verse mappings between the numbering systems that was used. Verses of different Bibles are counted together through these mappings. (definition)- How many approved entries match this chart, and from how many sources they come. (definition)
- 69,234, from 6 sources
- Which part of the total rests on less certain ground: uncertain verse mappings, lower bounds (e.g. a repetition count that is not known) and references to whole chapters. (definition)
- uncertain mappings 0%, lower bounds 100%, chapter references 0%
- Passages whose reference could not be turned into verses (e.g. an unknown book or a verse that does not exist). They are not counted. (definition)
- 60
- Verse-level uses that fall on verses outside the canon of this chart (e.g. deuterocanonical books in a Protestant canon). They are not part of the chart. (definition)
- 789
- Citations that could come from several verses
- 0 citations without a reference could come from several verses (the same sentence stands in another verse); they are not counted. With the chart option “Count ambiguous references” they count for every possible verse.
- The status of each verse position in this chart. A verse without uses is never just zero: the status says why. (definition)
- At least one use was recorded. (definition) 19,199,A verse label of this numbering that is not yet linked to a neutral verse unit. Its citations cannot be counted until it is mapped. (definition) 1,The second place of a verse that an edition prints twice. It gets no counts, so nothing is counted twice. (definition) 56,No recorded use, but the sources do not say whether they cover this verse completely. Most sources do not declare their coverage, so this is the usual state of a verse without uses. (definition) 11,972
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