Gannett, Caleb, 1745-1818. Caleb Gannett collection circa 1758-1785. Commonplace book, circa 1770s. HUM 314 Box 1, Folder 2, Harvard University Archives.

The time when the scriptures were divided into Chapers and Verses

The whole Centateuer before the Babylonish Captivity, was divided into 52 larger Sections, according to the Number of Sabbaths in one year one section being read constantly every Sabbath Day. After their Return from that captivity, which lasted 60 years, the common people born in Babylon, having in a great Measure forgot their Mother Tongue, in which the Law was written, (For Heay sung not the Lord's Song in a strange Land) Their was a necesity to appoint an Interpretor or Translator of the Law, when it was read in the Synagogue; so that the Reader being obliged to stop at proper periods at every pause, which was thereforward called the verse. Thus began the Division into Sections and Verses. . But the present Division into Chapters and numeral vers :es, did not properly take place till about the year 1438 after Christ, when Rabbi North :rn, looking the [Him's?] from the numerical Letters of Hugo de Saneto Clara began it in the Hebrew Bible; and not in the Greek nor Latin Bible 'till the Edition of Veta :blues, and Robert Stephens's Greek New Testament; which has been ver since observed in most, if not all Langugages, as most useful for References to those Divine Books. (From the holy Bible explained by Question & Answers) page. 9.

[double horizontal lines dividing sections of page) How the Earlth was divided and settled by the Families [written above text} and Sons of, Noah

Moses begins his account of the Origin of Natsons with the Descendents of Joseph, and by these were the land of the Gentiles divided His Son former inhabited Phsygia on the North of Judea; whose eldest Son Alkenan pitched his tent in the N. W. part of the [Lefser?] Asia, near the Euaine Sea, on whom to the Eastwawrd, bordered his second Son Rynhash; but his other son Lagarmah fixed his family in [Cappandoria?] on the N. of Jdea, igra to his Father Gomer, who is supposed to have occupied part of Phrygia. This was the first situation of this branch of Japhet's Family: But in Proverb of Time, the offspring of Gomer, called Cimmerici and Cambri exchanged themselves ever the Palus, a Keotis