The Hebrew Bible has three divisions: Torah (Instruction, or Law; also called the Pentateuch), Neviʾim (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). These books are known to Christians as the Old Testament. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament. In the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, the Old Testament includes writings considered apocryphal by Protestants. The New Testament contains four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), Acts, 21 letters, and Revelation.
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