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Old Testament
First division of Christian Bibles
This article is about a section of the Christian Bible. For the related Jewish text, see Hebrew Bible.
"The Old Testament" redirects here.
How old is the new testament
For the 2006 Sunz of Man album, see The Old Testament (album). For the 1962 film, see The Old Testament (film).
| Old Testament Part of the Bible | |
|---|---|
| Religion | Judaism, Christianity |
| Language | Hebrew, Aramaic |
| Books | 39 (Protestant), 46 (Catholic), up to 49 (Orthodox) |
| Chapters | 929 |
| Verses | 23,145 |
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.
The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors produced over a period of centuries.[2] Christians traditionally divide the Old Testament into four sections:[citation needed] the first five books or Pentat
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