The 'chapter and verse' divisions in the Bible make it so easy to locate any particular passage we wish to look up that we take them for granted, assuming that they have always been part of the Bible. But they were not.
We can do no better on this subject than to point you to:
Peter J. Williams, "Where Did Verse Numbers Come From?" Articles: Tyndale House, 16 November 2018.
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