Oomis, the gemara (.?????? ?) says that the early sages were called sofrim because they counted letters, words and pesukim. The gemara tells us what the half way point in each was calculated at, but it doesn’t match with a different calculation made later. The gemara resolves this by saying that the earlier sages were more proficient in “chaseros viyeseiros” and in the breakup of the pesukim.
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