Is there a way to sort a table by a column of scripture references?

Here's some sample data:
Book
Reference
Genesis
1:2
Genesis
1:26
Genesis
1:6-19
Genesis
1:6-8
Genesis
12:1
Genesis
12:3
Genesis
2:2
My table has certain references from all the books of the Bible (sans Apocrypha), so it's prohibitively hefty, but this gives you a few of my problems:
It's really hard to sort by books, as they weren't included in the canon in, um, alphabetical order. But I can get around that.
The verses (the numbers after the colon in the Reference column) are sorted in A-Z style, which is where the bulk of my problem is:
All chapters beginning with "1" will sort ahead of chapter 2... this is a problem.
All verses that begin with a lower ordinal will precede any verse that begins with a higher one--in the example above, "26" sorts ahead of "6-19".
It may be that I'm asking too much of Numbers' built-in sorting tool... any ideas on how I can straighten this out? Short of breaking the chapters and verses apart, of course... I have like 9,000 rows to this table and am not really keen on breaking that format up if I can avoid it, though I'm thinking I won't be able to.
Thoughts?

Hi Mikey,
Numbers sorts numbers in numerical order, and text in 'alphabetical order'.
You can sort books into the order they appear by adding a column containing a number equivalent to the book's position in the Book.
Chapter and verse can be handled in several ways:
Separate book, chapter and verse into four columns. book in two columns (number in the first, name in the second), chapter (as a number) in the third, verse (as a number) in the fourth.
A three stage sort, on book number, then on chapter number, then on verse number will then put everything back in the original order. Note that a 'three stage sort' is NOT the same as 'three single rule sorts'.
First two columns as above, chapter and verse combined in column 3. This will require a change in your chapter:verse notation. Here are two possibilities:
1. Use a numeric notation, replacing the colon with a decimal point. Add one or two leading zeroes to the verse part (after the decimal) to maintain three places after the decimal..
2. Use text notation, retaining the colon separator. pad the chapter number and the verse number with leading zeroes to maintain three digits before and after the colon.
(Three places are needed before the colon to allow for the 150 'chapters' in Psalms. Two will be sufficient after the colon unless there is a chapter with more than 99 verses. Unnumbered verses may be accommodated by appending a letter to the number for the past numbered verse (in the text notation), or by extending the decimal part by one digit (for up to nine unnumbered verses in sequence, or by two digits for sequences containing more then nine, but fewer that 100 unnumbered verses. I didn't do a search to determine which of these would be necessary.
Either of the C&V notations above could be constructed from the 'standard' notation using a formula, and placed in a column which may be hidden, and used only for sorting.
Regards,
Barry

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