There are 39 books in the Protestant Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi. If there are more than that in your Bible, it is because it is a Catholic version (46), an Orthodox version, or includes the Apocrypha in the number. That is because the Septuagent was used as the source material. It contains more books than the Masoretic text and was thus not accepted as authentic by mainstream rabbinic Judaism. After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant Bibles began to exclude the extra books which were not accepted by the Jewish community. However, some Christan Bibles include the disputed books in their own section called the Apocrypha.
The Jewish Bible (from which the Old Testament is derived) only has 24 books, since the Christian Bibles split a number of the books into separate books.
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∙ 9y agoThere are 39 books in the Old Testament
There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
There are 39 books in the Old Testament.
Protestants use a Bible with 39 books in the Old Testament.
There are 39 books in the old testament and 27 books in the New testament. 66 books in all.
There are 39 books in the Old Testament
There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament.
There are a two books of Chronicals in the old testament.
There are 39 books in the Old Testament.
There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament. If you add them together, there are 66 books. If you can remember there are 39 books in the old testament, then it is easy to figure out the other numbers. To get the number of New Testament books from the Old Testament number, multiply the digits to get 27.
There are 39 books in the old Testament.
Protestants use a Bible with 39 books in the Old Testament.
There are 39 books in the old testament and 27 books in the New testament. 66 books in all.
The Torah contains the five books of Moses all of which are part of the Christian Old Testament.
There are a total of 66 books in the bible.
There are sixty-six books total in the Bible. There are thirty-nine books in the Old Testament. There are twenty-seven books in the New Testament.
There are 27 books in the new testament/christian testament