The Bible's conventional index operates according to an apparatus created by the early Christian church:
By this method, Genesis consists of 50 Chapters totaling 1533 Verses. This conventional, 50-chapter index accompanies the complete text in the [CH:VS] column at right, where a Verse is defined according to the colophon at the end of each line of Hebrew text.
I accept the colophon as the end-point (i.e. the "snake eyes") of a biblical Verse. However, I take issue with the awkward way in which Chapters are bounded. While some are germane to the text, other boundary lines are clumsily staked, and useless for parsing meaning. They are too arbitrary. And so, while I retain the traditional Chapter : Verse index for the sake of convenience, my analysis requires an additional apparatus -- a novel wayfinding mechanism that is derived from, and responds to, the text itself.
My solution is called "The Oaural Ribbon."