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Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Jews, and Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Georgian, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac and Ethiopian Churches, although there's substantial overlap. A table comparing the canons of some of these denominations appears below, for both the Old Testament and the New Testament. For a detailed discussion of the differences, see "Biblical canon". The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches may have minor differences in their lists of accepted books. The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book, it's included here. The books included by the Roman Catholic Church are universally included in the Eastern canons.

Tanakh or Old Testament

A table cell with an asterisk (*) indicates that a book is present but in a different order. Empty cells indicate that a book is absent from that canon; such books are often called apocrypha, a term that's sometimes used specifically (and possibly pejoratively) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canon that are absent from the Protestant Bible; Orthodox and Catholic Christians describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning second canon.

Tanakh	Protestant Old Testament	Catholic Old Testament (Douay)	Greek Orthodox Old Testament	Slavonic Old Testament	Original Language
Torah or Pentateuch
Book of Genesis	Book of Genesis	Book of Genesis	Book of Genesis	Book of Genesis	Hebrew
Exodus	Exodus	Exodus	Exodus	Exodus	Hebrew
Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus	Leviticus	Hebrew
Numbers	Numbers	Numbers	Numbers	Numbers	Hebrew
Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Deuteronomy	Hebrew
Nevi'im or Prophets	Historical books
Joshua	Joshua	Josue	Joshua	Joshua	Hebrew
Judges	Judges	Judges	Judges	Judges	Hebrew
see below	Ruth	Ruth	Ruth	Ruth	Hebrew
Samuel	1 Samuel	1 Samuel	1 Samuel (1 Kingdoms)	1 Kingdoms	Hebrew
Samuel	2 Samuel	2 Samuel	2 Samuel (2 Kingdoms)	Ezra	Hebrew(+Aramaic)
Nehemiah	2 Esdras (Nehemias)	Nehemiah (2 Esdras)	Esther	1 Maccabees	see below	Hebrew or Aramaic?
2 Machabees	Psalms		Hebrew(+Greek)
see below	Proverbs	Proverbs	Proverbs	Proverbs	Hebrew
see below	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	Ecclesiastes	Hebrew
see below	Song of Solomon	Canticle of Canticles	Song of Solomon	Song of Songs	Hebrew
		Wisdom	Wisdom	Wisdom of Solomon	Greek
		Ecclesiasticus	Sirach	Sirach	Hebrew(+Greek)
	Major prophets
Isaiah	Isaiah	Isaias	Isaiah	Isaiah	Hebrew
Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Jeremias	Jeremiah	Jeremiah	Hebrew(+Aramaic)
see below	Lamentations	Lamentations	Lamentations	Lamentations of Jeremiah	Hebrew
		*	*	Letter of Jeremiah	Greek (or Hebrew?)
		Baruch	Baruch
		Baruch	Letter of Jeremiah	*	Greek (or Hebrew?)	Daniel
Psalms					Hebrew
Proverbs					Hebrew
Job					Hebrew
Song of Songs					Hebrew
Ruth					Hebrew
Lamentations					Hebrew
Ecclesiastes					Hebrew
Esther					Hebrew
Daniel					Hebrew+Aramaic
Ezra (includes Nehemiah)					Hebrew(+Aramaic)
Chronicles					Hebrew
		see above
Mark	Mark	Mark	Mark	Greek
Luke	Luke	Luke	Luke	Greek
John	John	John	John	Greek
The History
Acts	Acts	Acts	Acts	Greek
		The General Epistles
		James		Greek
		1 Peter		Greek
		2 Peter		Greek
		1 John		Greek
		2 John		Greek
		3 John		Greek
		Jude		Greek
The Pauline Epistles
Romans	Romans	Romans	Romans	Greek
1 Corinthians	1 Corinthians	1 Corinthians	1 Corinthians	Greek
2 Corinthians	2 Corinthians	2 Corinthians	2 Corinthians	Greek
Galatians	Galatians	Galatians	Galatians	Greek
Ephesians	Ephesians	Ephesians	Ephesians	Greek
Philippians	Philippians	Philippians	Philippians	Greek
Colossians	Colossians	Colossians	Colossians	Greek
1 Thessalonians	1 Thessalonians	1 Thessalonians	1 Thessalonians	Greek
2 Thessalonians	2 Thessalonians	2 Thessalonians	2 Thessalonians	Greek
1 Timothy	1 Timothy	1 Timothy	1 Timothy	Greek
2 Timothy	2 Timothy	2 Timothy	2 Timothy	Greek
Titus	Titus	Titus	Titus	Greek
Philemon	Philemon	Philemon	Philemon	Greek
The General Epistles			The General Epistles
Hebrews		Hebrews	Hebrews	Greek (or Hebrew?)
James				Greek
1 Peter	1 Peter		1 Peter	Greek
2 Peter	2 Peter		2 Peter	Greek
1 John	1 John		1 John	Greek
2 John	2 John		2 John	Greek
3 John	3 John		3 John	Greek
			James	Greek
Jude			Jude	Greek
	Books questioned by Luther
	Hebrews			Greek (or Hebrew?)
	James			Greek
	Jude			Greek
Revelation of Christ to John	Revelation of Christ to John	Revelation of Christ to John	Revelation of Christ to John	Greek

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has a few additional books in its canon: Jubilees, Book of Enoch, and the Rest of the Words of Baruch (4 Baruch).
The Peshitta excludes 2-3 John, 2 Peter, Jude, and Revelation, but Bibles of the modern Syriac Orthodox Church include later translations of those books along with the Letter of Baruch. Still today the official lectionary followed by the Syrian Orthodox Church (with headquarters at Kottayam (Kerala), and the Chaldean Syriac Church, also known as the Church of the East (Nestorian), with headquarters at Trichur (Kerala)) presents lessons from only the twenty-two books of Peshitta, the version to which appeal is made for the settlement of doctrinal questions. Third Epistle to the Corinthians was once considered part of the Armenian Orthodox Bible, but is no longer printed with modern editions.

Anglican Apocrypha

These are the Anglican Apocrypha as defined by the 39 Articles. The Apocrypha Books are ordered according to the Vulgate. The Lutheran Apocrypha is different. � I. Esdras

   II. Esdras � Tobit

   Judith � The Rest of Esther

   The Wisdom of Solomon � Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)

   Baruch, with the Letter of Jeremiah � The Song of the Three Jews, with the Prayer of Azariah

   The Story of Susanna � Bel and the Dragon

   The Prayer of Manasseh � I. Maccabees

   II. Maccabees � III. Maccabees

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