Protestant Bibles leave out seven books that Catholic Bibles contain: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and 1 and 2 Maccabees, plus parts of Esther and Daniel. The Reformers set them apart because they are not in the Hebrew Bible. Luther moved them to a separate section in 1534, and most Protestant Bibles stopped printing them in the 1800s. Which seven books are not in Protestant Bibles? The Catholic name for these books is deuterocanonical, meaning “second canon,” because their place…

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