A reader writes:
As a Catholic I understand there are 7 books in the Catholic Bible that are not in Non-Catholic Bibles. Would you please be able to tell me the names and what 7 books those are, so I can discuss this with a non Catholic friend?
Actually, these books are missing from Protestant Bibles. They do tend to be in the Bibles of Eastern Christians.
The books are:
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Tobit
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Judith
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1 Maccabees
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2 Maccabees
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Sirach
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Wisdom
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Baruch
There are also parts of two others that are missing in Protestant Bibles:
MORE INFO HERE.
AND HERE.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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