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The table uses the spellings and names present in modern editions of the Bible, such as the New American Bible Revised Edition, Revised Standard Version and English Standard Version. The spelling and names in both the 1609–1610 Douay Old Testament (and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner (the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English) and in the Septuagint differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.
For the Orthodox canon, Septuagint titles are provided in parentheses when these differ from those editions. For the Catholic canon, the Douaic titles are provided in parentheses when these differ from those editions. Likewise, the King James Version references some of these books by the traditional spelling when referring to them in the New Testament, such as "Esaias" (for Isaiah). In the spirit of ecumenism more recent Catholic translations (e.g. the New American Bible, Jerusalem Bible, and ecumenical translations used by Catholics, such as the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition) use the same "standardized" (King James Version) spellings and names as Protestant Bibles (e.g. 1 Chronicles as opposed to the Douaic 1 Paralipomenon, 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings instead of 1-4 Kings) in those books which are universally considered canonical, the protocanonicals. The Talmud in Bava Batra 14b gives a different order for the books in Nevi'im and Ketuvim. This order is also quoted in Mishneh Torah Hilchot Sefer Torah 7:15. The order of the books of the Torah are universal through all denominations of Judaism and Christianity.
The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text and most modern Protestant Bibles. Catholics, following the Canon of Trent (1546), describe these books as deuterocanonical, while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem (1672), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning "that which is to be read." They are present in a few historic Protestant versions; the German Luther Bible included such books, as did the English 1611 King James Version.
Empty table cells indicate that a book is absent from that canon.
Tanakh (Jewish Bible) (24 books) Books in bold are part of the Ketuvim |
Protestant Old Testament (39 books) |
Catholic Old Testament (46 books) |
Eastern Orthodox Old Testament (51 books) |
Original language |
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Torah | Pentateuch or The Five Books of Moses | |||
Bereishit | Genesis | Genesis | Genesis | Hebrew |
Shemot | Exodus | Exodus | Exodus | Hebrew |
Vayikra | Leviticus | Leviticus | Leviticus | Hebrew |
Bamidbar | Numbers | Numbers | Numbers | Hebrew |
Devarim | Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy | Deuteronomy | Hebrew |
Nevi'im | Historical books | |||
Yehoshua | Joshua | Joshua (Josue) | Joshua (Iesous) | Hebrew |
Shofetim | Judges | Judges | Judges | Hebrew |
Rut (Ruth) | Ruth | Ruth | Ruth | Hebrew |
Shemuel | 1 Samuel | 1 Samuel (1 Kings) | 1 Samuel (1 Kingdoms) | Hebrew |
2 Samuel | 2 Samuel (2 Kings) | 2 Samuel (2 Kingdoms) | Hebrew | |
Melakhim | 1 Kings | 1 Kings (3 Kings) | 1 Kings (3 Kingdoms) | Hebrew |
2 Kings | 2 Kings (4 Kings) | 2 Kings (4 Kingdoms) | Hebrew | |
Divrei Hayamim (Chronicles) | 1 Chronicles | 1 Chronicles (1 Paralipomenon) | 1 Chronicles (1 Paralipomenon) | Hebrew |
2 Chronicles | 2 Chronicles (2 Paralipomenon) | 2 Chronicles (2 Paralipomenon) | Hebrew | |
1 Esdras | Hebrew | |||
Ezra-Nehemiah | Ezra | Ezra (1 Esdras) | Ezra (2 Esdras) | Hebrew and Aramaic |
Nehemiah | Nehemiah (2 Esdras) | Nehemiah (2 Esdras) | Hebrew | |
Tobit (Tobias) | Tobit (Tobias) | Aramaic (and Hebrew?) | ||
Judith | Judith | Hebrew | ||
Esther | Esther | Esther | Esther | Hebrew |
1 Maccabees (1 Machabees) | 1 Maccabees | Hebrew | ||
2 Maccabees (2 Machabees) | 2 Maccabees | Greek | ||
3 Maccabees | Greek | |||
4 Maccabees | Greek | |||
Ketuvim | Wisdom books | |||
Iyov (Job) | Job | Job | Job | Hebrew |
Tehillim (Psalms) | Psalms | Psalms | Psalms | Hebrew |
Prayer of Manasseh | Greek | |||
Mishlei (Proverbs) | Proverbs | Proverbs | Proverbs | Hebrew |
Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) | Ecclesiastes | Ecclesiastes | Ecclesiastes | Hebrew |
Shir Hashirim (Song of Songs) | Song of Solomon | Song of Songs (Canticle of Canticles) | Song of Songs (Aisma Aismaton) | Hebrew |
Wisdom | Wisdom | Greek | ||
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) | Sirach | Hebrew | ||
Major prophets | ||||
Yeshayahu | Isaiah | Isaiah (Isaias) | Isaiah | Hebrew |
Yirmeyahu | Jeremiah | Jeremiah (Jeremias) | Jeremiah | Hebrew and Aramaic |
Eikhah (Lamentations) | Lamentations | Lamentations | Lamentations | Hebrew |
Baruch | Baruch | Hebrew | ||
Letter of Jeremiah | Greek (majority view) | |||
Yekhezqel | Ezekiel | Ezekiel (Ezechiel) | Ezekiel | Hebrew |
Daniel | Daniel | Daniel | Daniel | Hebrew and Aramaic |
Twelve Minor Prophets | ||||
The Twelve or Trei Asar |
Hosea | Hosea (Osee) | Hosea | Hebrew |
Joel | Joel | Joel | Hebrew | |
Amos | Amos | Amos | Hebrew | |
Obadiah | Obadiah (Abdias) | Obadiah | Hebrew | |
Jonah | Jonah (Jonas) | Jonah | Hebrew | |
Micah | Micah (Micheas) | Micah | Hebrew | |
Nahum | Nahum | Nahum | Hebrew | |
Habakkuk | Habakkuk (Habacuc) | Habakkuk | Hebrew | |
Zephaniah | Zephaniah (Sophonias) | Zephaniah | Hebrew | |
Haggai | Haggai (Aggeus) | Haggai | Hebrew | |
Zechariah | Zechariah (Zacharias) | Zechariah | Hebrew | |
Malachi | Malachi (Malachias) | Malachi | Hebrew |
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