What’s the longest book you’ve ever read?
The Bible has been the longest book I have read.
783,137 words in the King James Version.
Call it ∼780k for any English Bible.
Depends on the translation, but they all cluster around 750k-800k:
– *KJV (King James):* 783,137 words – the number most people quote. 592,439 in the Old Testament, 180,552 in the New, plus 10k in the Apocrypha if you include it.
– *NIV:* about 727,000 words – shorter because modern English uses fewer words
– *ESV:* about 757,000 words
– *Original languages:* about 611,000 words in Hebrew / Aramaic Old Testament, plus about 138,000 words in Greek New Testament
So when people say “about 800,000 words” for the Bible, that’s basically right.
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