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There are 39 books common to essentially all Christian canons. They correspond to the 24 [[Tanakh#Books of the Tanakh|books of the Tanakh]], with some differences of order, and there are some differences in text. The greater count of books reflects the splitting of several texts ([[Books of Samuel|Samuel]], [[Books of Kings|Kings]], [[Books of Chronicles|Chronicles]], [[Ezra–Nehemiah]], and the [[Twelve Minor Prophets]]) into separate books in Christian Bibles. The books that are part of the Christian Old Testament but that are not part of the Hebrew canon are sometimes described as [[deuterocanonical books]]. These books are ultimately derived from the earlier [[Septuagint]], the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and are also Jewish in origin. Some are also contained in the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]]. In general, Catholic and Orthodox churches include thesethe deuterocanonical books in the Old Testament. Most Protestant Bibles do not include the deuterocanonical booksthem in their canon, but some versions of [[Anglican]] and [[Lutheran]] Bibles place such books in a separate section called [[biblical apocrypha|Apocrypha]].