Oh you edited in a link. The answer you got from gotquestions.org is based on ignornce, this is more accurate how they came about:
Jewish and Christian Bibles are actually anthologies of shorter writings called “books.” Bound volumes gathering these books together as a unit, known as codices, began to appear in the second century C.E. Before then the books of the Bible existed as individual scrolls.
Early on, Jewish scribes felt a need to divide these books into smaller pieces. Some biblical
manuscripts among the
Dead Sea Scrolls (third century B.C.E. through first century C.E.) use a system of spaces and line breaks to subdivide individual books into smaller sections called
parashot (
Hebrew, singular
parashah).
Parashot form the basis for the annual cycle of Torah readings in the synagogue. A parallel and overlapping tradition divides books of the
Hebrew Bible into
sedarim (Hebrew, singular
seder), units smaller than
parashot. The
Mishnah (compiled around 200 C.E. from earlier traditions) reflects smaller divisions called
pasuqim (singular
pasuq) or “verses.” These early attempts at subdividing the biblical books were refined over time, and the various copies of the
Masoretic Text—the Hebrew Bible as standardized in the early
Middle Ages—
show broad agreement on where the divisions should be.