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>