Q: What is the main difference between the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Bibles?
To the layperson the most noticeable difference is in the number of books in the Old Testament: Old Testament Comparison Chart. The Catholic Old Testament has 46 books, the Protestant has 39, and the Greek/Eastern Orthodox use the Septuagint which has 50**.
As for the New Testament, all major Christian denominations have the same canon, that is, their NT bibles contain the same number of books and same content, the differences being only in the wording due to different translator's interpretations. There are 27 books in the New Testament.
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