Below are Mr. Tweedale's own words, which introduce his amazing statistics table as concerns his electronic edition of the Clementine Vulgate. [note the ascending size of the Pauline epistles, and the separation between the epistles and those which are pastoral. The whole Latin Vulgate Bible has 620,057 total words! Good stuff to know.]

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Statistics

"In a project of such a great scale, I found it psychologically essential to keep detailed progress statistics, to have a number that I could see going up, letting me know that I really was making progress. The number I picked was the percentage completed (well, really two numbers: I recorded progress by chapters and printed pages)."

"Now that the whole thing is almost finished, I've collated various numerical facts about the Clementine text into the table below."


The first row has been added to Tweedale's table, it shows TOTALS from some English KJV, with its Apocrypha!

KJV statistics are from the 1959 Encyclopedia Americana, which used the compilations of Dr. Thomas Hartwell Horne (who spent 3 years tabulating these and other statistics).

The Book of Bible Lists, by H. L. Willmington, uses [without giving credit] the same statistics calculated by Horne.

Note: Horne's compilations were from an "old English Bible of the King James Version"; but a recent printed copy of the actual 1611 KJV (with modern type, (1993, Thomas Nelson Publishers)) , has 172 chapters total for its Apocrypha, whereas Horne shows 184 chapters in his copy. Still it is clear that the Vulgate translation uses far fewer words to communicate the original Greek and Hebrew. [GSD]

 

Chapters
Verses
Words
Words/chap
Verses/chap
1611, KJV
1373
37204
899,931
655.4
27.1
 
Total/Vulgate
1334
35811
620057
464.8
26.8
Gn
50
1530
25478
509.6
30.6
Ex
40
1211
20224
505.6
30.3
Lv
27
858
13807
511.4
31.8
Nm
36
1288
19439
540.0
35.8
Dt
34
959
18619
547.6
28.2
Jos
24
658
12254
510.6
27.4
Jdc
21
618
12723
605.9
29.4
Rt
4
85
1792
448.0
21.3
1Rg
31
811
18409
593.8
26.2
2Rg
24
695
14768
615.3
29.0
3Rg
22
817
17320
787.3
37.1
4Rg
25
719
16076
643.0
28.8
1Par
29
940
14420
497.2
32.4
2Par
36
822
18019
500.5
22.8
Esr
10
280
5134
513.4
28.0
Neh
13
404
7380
567.7
31.1
Tob
14
298
5052
360.9
21.3
Jdt
16
346
6662
416.4
21.6
Est
16
275
5978
373.6
17.2
Job
42
1070
13141
312.9
25.5
Ps
150
2527
31944
213.0
16.8
Pr
31
915
10639
343.2
29.5
Ecl
12
222
3978
331.5
18.5
Ct
8
116
1886
235.8
14.5
Sap
19
439
7500
394.7
23.1
Sir
51
1592
21560
422.7
31.2
Is
66
1292
25898
392.4
19.6
Jr
52
1363
30548
587.5
26.2
Lam
5
154
2429
485.8
30.8
Bar
6
213
3696
616.0
35.5
Ez
48
1272
27425
571.4
26.5
Dn
14
531
10863
775.9
37.9
Os
14
198
3697
264.1
14.1
Joel
3
73
1413
471.0
24.3
Am
9
147
2920
324.4
16.3
Abd
1
21
453
453.0
21.0
Jon
4
48
976
244.0
12.0
Mch
7
104
2184
312.0
14.9
Nah
3
47
900
300.0
15.7
Hab
3
56
1063
354.3
18.7
Soph
3
53
1118
372.7
17.7
Agg
2
38
826
413.0
19.0
Zach
14
211
4452
318.0
15.1
Mal
4
55
1220
305.0
13.8
1Mcc
16
929
16617
1038.6
58.1
2Mcc
15
558
10494
699.6
37.2
Mt
28
1070
16565
591.6
38.2
Mc
16
677
10313
644.6
42.3
Lc
24
1151
18106
754.4
48.0
Jo
21
880
14104
671.6
41.9
Act
28
1004
16799
600.0
35.9
Rom
16
433
6618
413.6
27.1
1Cor
16
437
6445
402.8
27.3
2Cor
13
256
4302
330.9
19.7
Gal
6
149
2134
355.7
24.8
Eph
6
155
2150
358.3
25.8
Phlp
4
104
1558
389.5
26.0
Col
4
95
1464
366.0
23.8
1Thes
5
89
1404
280.8
17.8
2Thes
3
47
751
250.3
15.7
1Tim
6
113
1591
265.2
18.8
2Tim
4
83
1170
292.5
20.8
Tit
3
46
663
221.0
15.3
Phlm
1
25
322
322.0
25.0
Hbr
13
303
4599
353.8
23.3
Jac
5
108
1650
330.0
21.6
1Ptr
5
105
1661
332.2
21.0
2Ptr
3
61
1052
350.7
20.3
1Jo
5
105
1887
377.4
21.0
2Jo
1
13
218
218.0
13.0
3Jo
1
14
211
211.0
14.0
Jud
1
25
443
443.0
25.0
Apc
22
405
8483
385.6
18.4