In the bible, a verse is a word used to refer to a sentence. In the whole of the Old Testament (5 Books of Moses), there are 5,845 verses. This number is split in the following way between the five books:
Bereishit/Genesis: 1,534
Sh’mot/Exodus: 1,209
Vayikra/Leviticus: 859
Bamidbar/Numbers: 1,288
Dvarim/Deuteronomy: 955
As you can see, the book with the most verses in the Torah is Bereishit, and the book with the least is Vayikra.
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Here you can see that there is no punctuation in a Torah scroll.
The Torah doesn’t have any separation between verses when you are reading it from the scroll. Nor was the Torah marked with sentences when G-d gave it to Moses. It was only at a later date that the separation between the verses was added.
To answer this question, we are referring to a verse as written in the original Hebrew rather than another translation or language.
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