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This chapter just starts to indicate how every page of your Bible, whether a Jewish Tanakh or a particular Christian Bible, is the product of an intense process of textual criticism, analysis of the original language of biblical passages, and packaging of the particular translation of such passages through elements like chapter and verse numbers. Ancient manuscripts were often divided into longer, unnumbered reading sections (for use in worship and study), and they sometimes included marginal comments or additional verses here or there (see Figure 0.2 below). Nevertheless, they did not have the numbering, headings, or reader guides now in the Bible before you. Take note of every element on a given page of your contemporary Bible that helps frame the biblical text and present it to you. Your first step as a critical reader of the Bible is become more conscious of these elements and more familiar with their characteristics.