<P> The first person to divide New Testament chapters into verses was Italian Dominican biblical scholar Santi Pagnini (1470--1541), but his system was never widely adopted . His verse divisions in the New Testament were far longer than those known today . Robert Estienne created an alternate numbering in his 1551 edition of the Greek New Testament which was also used in his 1553 publication of the Bible in French . Estienne's system of division was widely adopted, and it is this system which is found in almost all modern Bibles . Estienne produced a 1555 Vulgate that is the first Bible to include the verse numbers integrated into the text . Before this work, they were printed in the margins . </P> <P> The first English New Testament to use the verse divisions was a 1557 translation by William Whittingham (c. 1524--1579). The first Bible in English to use both chapters and verses was the Geneva Bible published shortly afterwards in 1560 . These verse divisions soon gained acceptance as a standard way to notate verses, and have since been used in nearly all English Bibles and the vast majority of those in other languages . (Nevertheless, some Bibles have removed the verse numbering, including the ones noted above that also removed chapter numbers; a recent example of an edition that removed only verses, not chapters, is The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language by Eugene H. Peterson .) </P> <P> The Hebrew Masoretic text of the Bible notes several different kinds of subdivisions within the biblical books: </P> <P> Most important are the verse endings . According to the Talmudic tradition, the division of the text into verses is of ancient origin . In Masoretic versions of the Bible, the end of a verse is indicated by a small mark in its final word called a silluq (which means "stop"). Less formally, verse endings are usually also indicated by two horizontal dots following the word with a silluq . </P>

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