Well.. if we're getting technical, the "Old" Testament is written in Hebrew, and the "New" Testament in written in Greek.

The first line of Genesis reads thus: (from right-to-left, although the earliest Hebrew is actually LTR) בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.

And the beginning of the Gospel of Mark thus: Ἀρχὴ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ θεοῦ.

(and if we're getting super technical there are a bunch of Aramaic phrases in the Bible that Jesus spoke, although I know little of Aramaic and I don't know how it would have been written in Biblical times between the Greek characters)

So the Lord would be needing those 16-bits after all..