# Organising The Bible in Obsidian

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/organising-the-bible-in-obsidian/1490>\
**Category:** Knowledge management\
**Created:** [June 9, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/organising-the-bible-in-obsidian/1490 "2020-06-09T09:49:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joschua](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/joschua/32/9945_2.png) [@Joschua](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Joschua)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/organising-the-bible-in-obsidian/1490/60 "2020-11-28T11:45:19Z")

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Thank @Lithou and @Chaulk5 for sharing your approaches. I am amazed by the responses in this whole thread.

To make it easy to find different approaches and snippets for newcomers, I’ll edit the first post into a summary. → [Summary here!](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/organising-the-bible-in-obsidian/1490)  
For reference, I’ll repost my original first post here though:

> **First Post**
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> I just finished writing a script to import the Bible into Obsidian.
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> Before I start importing over 700 000 words into Obsidian, I am thinking about how to organise this book. The Bible is structured in Books, Chapters, Verses. My initial thought is to create a Note for each book with a `##` Heading for each Chapter and a `###` Header for each verse.  
> That makes referencing and embedding possible without cluttering the graph in an excessive way.
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> I would be interested to hear thoughts on how to organise this amount of information while being able to easily embed, read and backlink to it.
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> An example note containing a book of the Bible:
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> ![Screenshot 2020-06-09 at 11.39.40](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6cb4080e6495665039cbf59d8b5e5388c0ab57af.jpeg)
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> A verse embedded:
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> ![Screenshot 2020-06-09 at 11.39.55](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a10147e9c034fc214cf91e7235ad7309a01e2ef0.jpeg)

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