How many pages is the bible and long will it take to print on normal A4 paper?

With sall enough type, you can fit itall one a single page.

Why would you want to print a bible?

What a waste of paper and ink.

Especially considering how many of them there are out there sitting around, unread (especially by 'Christians').

Depends on the translation, the font size, single page/both sides, printer speed, network connection.

The Old Testament has 39 small books, the New Testament has 27, making 66 in total. All of them comprise the Bible. The number of pages depends entirely on type size. If it's done in 8 point, that will take far less pages of paper than if it were 12 point. I have a King James Version in 8 point, two of its pages filling one side of an A4 page, so if it was printed double-sided, its 1,233 pages could be printed on to 308 A4 sheets. (You would have to photocopy though: is that legal? Otherwise you'd first have to type out all the text on to your computer. You could never do that; even if you did, it would be full of typographical errors.) The time it would take depends on whether you photocopy every page of the Bible, or whether you take a couple of years to key every word on to a computer. And whether your photocopier had a breakdown in the process, or not.

Why would anyone want to do that?

Do you realize you can purchase one for $1?

You really that broke?

Why ask a bunch of strangers on the Internet?

Get a  Bible, and copy  the first page onto YOUR computer,  using whichever font size allows it to fit on ONE page.

Then  print it on YOUR printer, which may be faster or slower than may of ours.

Time the printing carefully.

Look at the number on the last page.

Multiply the time for printing ONE page by THAT number, and there's your answer.

That depends on the font you are using!

Anyway , why would you want to do something so utterly pointless as that?

Depends on the font size really. Some Bibles are thicker than others. Either way, a KJV tends to be right around at least 1,500 pages.