Apocrypha
The deuterocanonical books, held as scripture by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
Limited to the seven books that every edition we use carries, so that the same passage can be served in each language that offers this canon.
What it is
These writings come from the last few centuries before the common era, mostly in Greek, and circulated in the Greek Jewish Bible that the early church inherited. When the Protestant reformers returned to the Hebrew canon they set them apart, while Catholic and Orthodox Christians did not. The word deuterocanonical records that second, later settlement.
They contain history, storytelling and a great deal of practical counsel. Sirach is a long book of advice on anger, money, speech, friendship and grief, addressed to the conduct of an ordinary life; Wisdom and Tobit sit closer to philosophy and to folk tale respectively.
Where these words come from
King James Version with Apocrypha
7 books · 137 chapters · License terms
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How a passage reaches you
What you write is read for its sense and its feeling, then matched to a place in this canon: a book, a chapter, a verse. The words themselves are never composed for you. Our code fetches them from the edition above and shows them with that edition named, and a reference it cannot find there is dropped rather than filled in.