The Tanakh holds the same books as a Protestant Bible. Jews count them as 24 and Protestants as 39, and the two arrange them in a different order. Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments hold them all and add several more from the Greek Septuagint, such as Tobit and Judith. These are the Scriptures Jesus himself read aloud. In the synagogue at Nazareth, “as his custom was,” he stood up to read, “and there was delivered unto him the book of…

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