These are the books of the

Vulgate The Vulgate () is a late-4th-century Bible translations into Latin, Latin translation of the Bible. It is largely the work of Saint Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels used by the Diocese of ...

(in

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) along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay–Rheims and King James versions of the Bible (both in English). They are all translations, and the Vulgate exists in many forms. There are 76 books in the Clementine edition of the Latin Vulgate, 46 in the

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, 27 in the

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, and 3 in the

Apocrypha Apocrypha () are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture, some of which might be of doubtful authorship or authenticity. In Christianity, the word ''apocryphal'' (ἀπόκρυφος) was first applied to ...

Notes

The names and numbers of the books of the Latin

differ in ways that may be confusing to many modern

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readers. In addition, some of the books of the Vulgate have content that has been removed to separate books entirely in many modern Bible translations. This list is an aid to tracking down the content of a Vulgate reference. The

Psalms The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament. The book is an anthology of B ...

of the

follow the numbering assigned to them in the

Septuagint The Septuagint ( ), sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (), and abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew. The full Greek ...

which differs from the numbering found in the

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, though not in the order nor the content. See

for more details. Note that the

and

divisions of the Vulgate do not exactly correspond to those sections in the King James Bible. The Vulgate's Apocrypha section is smaller than the King James Bible's, with a correspondingly larger Old Testament. See the article on the

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for details as to why this is so. The names of those books found in the Apocrypha section of their respective versions are in ''italics''. A complement to this list can be found at

List of books of the King James Version These are the books of the King James Version of the Bible along with the names and numbers given them in the Douay Rheims Bible and Latin Vulgate. This list is a complement to the list in Books of the Latin Vulgate. It is an aid to finding cross ...

Old Testament

New Testament

Apocrypha

Other editions

The list is for the

Clementine Vulgate The Sixto-Clementine Vulgate or Clementine Vulgate () is an edition of the Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the second edition of the Vulgate to be formally authorized by the Catholic Church, the first be ...

. Other editions of the Vulgate vary in the Apocrypha, in the order of the books, and in the names of the books. * The

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mixes the apocrypha into the

, with the

Prayer of Manasses The Prayer of Manasseh is a short, penitential prayer attributed to king Manasseh of Judah. The majority of scholars believe that the Prayer of Manasseh was written in Greek (while a minority argues for a Semitic original) in the second or first ...

following 2 Paralipomenon, and 3 and

4 Esdras 2 Esdras, also called 4 Esdras, Latin Esdras, or Latin Ezra, is an apocalyptic book in some English versions of the Bible. Tradition ascribes it to Ezra, a scribe and priest of the fifth century BC, whom the book identifies with the sixth-ce ...

following

1 Esdras 1 Esdras (), also Esdras A, Greek Esdras, Greek Ezra, or 3 Esdras, is the ancient Greek Septuagint version of the biblical Book of Ezra in use within the early church and among many modern Christians with varying degrees of canonicity. 1 Esdra ...

and Nehemias. The Prayer of Solomon follows

Ecclesiasticus The Book of Sirach (), also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, The Wisdom of Jesus son of Eleazar, or Ecclesiasticus (), is a Jewish literary work originally written in Biblical Hebrew. The longest extant wisdom book from antiqui ...

. It thus has 50 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New, for a total of 77 books. * The '' New Vulgate'' changes the name of ''

'' to ''Liber Siracidae''; '' Tobiae'' is called ''Thobis''. Although the ''New Vulgate'' contains the

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, it omits the three apocrypha entirely. It thus has a total of only 73 books. * The

Stuttgart Vulgate The Stuttgart Vulgate or Weber-Gryson Vulgate (full title: ''Biblia Sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem'') is a critical edition of the Vulgate first published in 1969. The most recent edition of the work is the fifth edition, from 2007. History B ...

adds

Psalm 151 Psalm 151 is a short psalm found in most copies of the Septuagint (LXX), but not in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The title given to the psalm in the Septuagint indicates that it is supernumerary, as no number is affixed to it. The p ...

and the

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Epistle to the Laodiceans The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible writing of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction in the Epistle to the Colossians that the congregation should send their letter to the believing community in ...

to the Apocrypha. It thus has 5 books in the Apocrypha, 46 in the

, and 27 in the

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, for a total of 78 books. The spelling of proper names in this edition is irregular and inconsistent, so the names of many of the books were altered, e.g. ''Naum'' for ''

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''.

Early manuscripts

The early Vulgate manuscripts essentially had a table of contents identical to those found in modern Vulgate editions.

Sequence of Books in Vulgate Old Testaments according to different sources

Adapted from Richard Marsden's ''The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England'', page 450. * Oct = Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth (the "Octateuch") * Kgs = 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings * Min Pr = Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Michah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zecheriah, Malachi * Jer = Jeremiah, Lamentations * Song = Song of Solomon * Chron = 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles * Ezr + N = Ezra, Nehemiah * Sir = Ecclesiasticus * Macc = 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees * Jer + Bar = Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah * Chron + Pm = 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Prayer of Manasses. * Esdr = 1 Esdras = (Vulgate) 3 Esdras = (Septuagint) Esdras A In the Old Testament sequence set out by

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in the '' Prologus Galeatus'', he identifies the books into four categories: The Law (the five books of Moses), the Prophets (including Joshua, Judges and Kings, as well as the major and minor prophets), the Writings (including both Poetical and Wisdom books as well as narrative books), and finally the five apocryphal books of Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Judith, Tobit and Maccabees.{{Cite web, last=, first=, date=, title=Jerome’s “Helmeted Introduction” to Kings, url=http://www.bombaxo.com/2006/07/27/jeromes-helmeted-introduction-to-kings/, url-status=dead, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404171616/http://www.bombaxo.com/2006/07/27/jeromes-helmeted-introduction-to-kings/, archive-date=4 April 2019, access-date=2020-06-20, website=biblicalia, language=en-US Jerome's first three categories correspond to the rabbinic ordering of the Hebrew Bible, except that Jerome includes Ruth with Judges, and Lamentations with Jeremiah. Although the ''prologus'', and hence Jerome's listing, was included in almost all Vulgate pandect

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, his order was only rarely adopted; the exceptions being the bibles produced by Theodulf and his successors at Fleury, and also the 9th century

Codex Toletanus The ''Codex Toletanus'', designated by T, also called ''Biblia hispalense'' or Seville Bible, is a 10th-century Latin manuscript of the Old and New Testament. The text, written on vellum, is a version of the Latin Vulgate Bible, which contains ...

in Spain. An alternative listing of the Old Testament books, which circulated universally in the Latin west, was that set out by

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('' On Christian Doctrine'', II, viii, 13). Augustine allocates the Old Testament into five categories: the Law (as in Jerome), the History (including the books of Chronicles), the Narratives (including Tobit, Judith and Maccabees from the apocryphal books), the books of David and Solomon (including the apocryphal books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus), and the Prophets (including Daniel with the major prophets). Although Augustine's detailed order of books has not been recorded in any manuscript, most subsequent pandects recognised his categories. Augustine's categories are also found in the decrees of the Council of Carthage (418), at which Augustine was present, in the order: Law, History, David and Solomon (including Job), Prophets, Narratives; and this order is also found the 8th century Codex Cavensis and other Spanish pandect bibles. The

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sets out the Old Testament in the order: Law, History, David and Solomon, Prophets, Narratives. Alcuin gives the order: Law, History, Prophets, David and Solomon, Narratives; Alcuin removes Job from the Narrative section to a position immediately preceding the Book of Psalms, and also includes Chronicles with the Narratives (in both cases returning to Jerome's order). The Paris bibles followed the sequence: Law, History, Narratives (now including 3 Esdras), David and Solomon, Prophets (now including Baruch with Jeremiah), and Maccabees is the final book. The Paris order, minus 3 Esdras, was eventually to be adopted by the