A Catholic Bible has 73 books and a Protestant Bible has 66. Both have the same 27 books in the New Testament. The difference is seven Old Testament books, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch, plus longer versions of Esther and Daniel. Catholics call these books deuterocanonical; Protestants call them the Apocrypha. How many books are in the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible? The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives the Catholic count: 46 books…

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