CHAPTERS

The Bible's conventional index operates according to an apparatus created by the early Christian church:

Chapter : Verse

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.

Chapter Verse Count Gloss
01 34 Creation - the first 6 Lights.
02 25 7th Light, ALHIM makes a helper for ADM.
03 24 NX$, XUH, and expulsion of ADM from ODN.
04 26 ADM knows XUH thrice: QIN, HBL, and $T.
05 32 The progeny of ADM, to the sons of NX.
06 22 ALHIM will bring a flood, and NX must build an ark.
07 24 The flood arrives, with ample maths and countings.
08 22 The flood recedes, IHUH won't do it again.
09 29 ALHIM makes a covenant with NX, the curse of KNON.
10 32 The progeny of IPT, of XM, of $M, and the tower of BBL.
11 32 In greater detail, the progeny of $M; death of TRX.
12 20 PROH takes $RI unawares.
13 18 ABRM and LU& separate.
14 24 9 kings make war, 1 king makes peace.
15 21 ABRM counts the stars; 4, 400, 4th generation.
16 16 $RI gives HGR to ABRM, begetting I$MOAL.
17 27 Name changes, mass circumcisions.
18 33 ABRHM negotiates with IHUH.
19 38 LU& and his daughters escape from CDM.
20 18 ABIMLK takes $RH unawares.
21 34 Birth of I¢XQ, casting out of HGR, Well-of-Sevens.
22 24 ABRHM binds I¢XQ and satisfies God. NXUR's progeny.
23 20 Death and burial of $RH.
24 67 ABRHM's servant finds RBQH for I¢XQ to marry.
25 34 The progeny of I$MOAL. O$U, IOQB, and their birthright.
26 35 I¢XQ and RBQH to GRR, strife with ABIMLK. O$U takes wives.
27 46 I¢XQ blesses IOQB before O$U. IQQB flees to LBN.
28 22 IOQB dreams of a ladder.
29 35 IOQB marries LAH and RXL; begets four offspring.
30 43 A bunch more offspring. IOQB with the flocks of LBN.
31 54 IOQB flees LBN. RXL hides images. LBN and IOQB reconcile.
32 33 IOQB drives the droves, and wrestles with God.
33 20 O$U is pleased.
34 31 SKM deflowers DINH. $MOUN and LUI avenge her.
35 29 IOQB in BIT AL. BNIMIN, death of RXL, death of I¢XQ.
36 43 The progeny of O$U, who is both ADUM and ADUM's father.
37 36 IUCP annoys his brothers, so they sell him into slavery.
38 30 IHUDH on the road. TMR begets PR¢ and ZRX.
39 23 PU&IPR's wife makes trouble for IUCP. Prison.
40 23 PROH's butler and baker dream for IUCP. The butler forgets.
41 57 IUCP interprets for PROH, and prepares for the famine.
42 38 IUCP demands BNIMN in exchange for captive SMOUN.
43 34 IUCP makes a feast for his brothers, who have brought BNIMN.
44 34 IUCP will keep BNIMN, until IOQB comes to him.
45 28 IUCP reveals himself. IOQB will go to him.
46 34 IOQB reunites with IUCP, and prepares to meet PROH.
47 31 IUCP governs Egypt for PROH. I$RAL is getting old.
48 22 IUCP and I$RAL exchange final words.
49 33 IOQB commands his sons.
50 26 ICUP mounrs for IOQB, and dies soon after.
Total: 1533  

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."