re translations in article may athos rutgers edu mcovingt aisun ai uga edu michael covington writes i have a strong preference for editions that do not indent the beginning of each verse as if verses were paragraphs the verse numbering is a relatively modern addition and should not be given undue prominence does anyone know of an english language edition that does not show the verse or even chapter numbers i have always thought that such an edition would be very useful although hard to navigate around i have a scots nt that doesn t show verse numbers and it is great to read particularly longer narrative passages but my scots isn t quite up to doing proper study from this edition i tend to use it to get a feel for a story particularly in the gospels and then use an english edition to look for details alison the original neb put verse numbers only in the margin the jerusalem bible does the same though they put a dot to mark the boundaries between verses clh
