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World 01Scriptures
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Read the Bible.
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- Five traditions
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Begin with John
Meet Jesus through the Gospel that opens by naming him as the Word.
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Old Testament
Study & all traditions
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Protestant
The Old and New Testaments as most English Bibles bind them.
66 books
Catholic
Adds the deuterocanon — Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, the Maccabees.
73 books
Eastern Orthodox
The Septuagint Old Testament and the New Testament.
81 books
Ethiopian Tewahedo
The broadest canon in Christendom.
80 books
Armenian Apostolic
The first nation to adopt Christianity.
83 books