Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Kiddushin 59:14

תנו רבנן חמשת אלפים ושמונה מאות ושמונים ושמונה פסוקים הוו פסוקי ס"ת יתר עליו תהלים שמונה חסר ממנו דברי הימים שמונה

For when R'Aha B'Adda came,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From Palestine to Babylon.');"><sup>29</sup></span> he said: In the West [Palestine] the following verse is divided into three: And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud [etc.].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XIX, 9.');"><sup>30</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: There are five thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight verses in the Torah;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the Pentateuch. In M.T. we have 5,845. [The difference is explained by the fact that the Palestinian had more verses than the Babylonian. v. Ned. (Sonc. ed.) p. 118. n. 7. and Graetz MGWJ XXXIV. pp. 97ff.]');"><sup>31</sup></span> the Psalms exceed this by eight;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tosaf. observes that even if the Psalms are divided into verses of three words, there are still more in the Pentateuch. [The M.T. has 2,527, and the difference could be accounted as in the case of the Pentateuch. The difficulty however remains in regard to Chronicles where M.T. has only 1,765.]');"><sup>32</sup></span>

Daf Shevui to Kiddushin

This source posits that the Torah, Psalms and Chronicles are almost the same length. However, we should note that this is not true according to our Bibles. The Tosafot already note that it’s not even close. There are over 5000 verses in the Torah and 2461 in Psalms. Not sure how many there are in Chronicles, but since there are only 65 chapters, the number of verses will be less than Psalms by a lot. Indeed, this source is so far off from the number of verses actually there, that it is somewhat of a mystery. The only thing I can say is that these are the three largest books in the Bible.
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