1. 45
   55
2. 66
   88

The Bible has many apocryphal (not considered canon to Protestants) books. The most widely used is the original Protestant version--the King James Version. More recent versions, such as the New International Version, still have 66 books, but the Catholic Bible has 73 books.

1. Genesis
   Exodus
2. Matthew
   Revelations

The Book of Genesis (which means "origin") details the creation myth and the life of the first people that God created. It also details how Abraham was the forebearer of the Jewish people. It ends with the people of Israel in captivity in Egypt.

1. The Gospels and The Prophets
   Old Testament and New Testament
2. The Pentateuch and the Torah
   The Jewish History and the Christian History

The Old Testament is based off the Hebrew Bible, which is called the Tanakh. The New Testament includes biographical narratives about Jesus and the apostles, instructional letters to churches and a book of prophecy.

1. 25
   35
2. 39
   59

In the Protestant version of the Bible, there are 39 books of the Old Testament. In the Catholic Bible, there are 46.

1. Daniel
   Revelations
2. Deuteronomy
   Malachi

The Book of Malachi is one of the 12 Minor Prophets. Minor here is not about importance, but about the length of the book. The Book of Malachi has three chapters.

1. The Gospels
   The Passover
2. The Pentecost
   The Pentateuch

In Greek, the Pentateuch means "five books." These five books are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

1. Moses
   Joseph
2. Abraham
   Isaac

The Abrahamic religions traditionally believe that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, which is known as the Torah in Judaism. It is also called the Law of Moses.

1. Five
   Six
2. Seven
   Ten

In the first chapter of Genesis, it details how God created the earth which goes from days 1 through 6. The beginning of the second chapter details how God rested from his work on the seventh day and how he made it holy.

1. The Land of Genesis
   Tree of Good and Evil
2. Garden of Eden
   Israel

The Garden of Eden is also known as Paradise. Adam and Eve, the first humans, were created in this garden and lived there until they disobeyed God and were then banished.

1. Cain
   Abel
2. Adam
   Seth

The classic story of sibling rivalry is with Cain and Abel, Adam and Eve's first children. In the Book of Genesis, Cain's motive isn't explicitly laid out, but he did kill Abel after the Lord liked Abel's offering more than Cain's.

1. Methuselah
   Noah
2. Enoch
   Elijah

Methuselah is Enoch's son and Noah's grandfather. He's primarily mentioned in this genealogy of Adam to Noah and is associated with living a long life.

1. Jason
   Jacob
2. Joseph
   Jesus

Joseph was Jacob's favorite son, which is why he had the fancy coat. Jealous of the favoritism, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers, but when was about 40, he was the vizier of Egypt, second in power only to the pharaoh. By being in a place of leadership in Egypt, Joseph was able to save his family from famine.

1. God scattered people and caused them to speak different languages.
   God flooded the earth.
2. He banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
   God caused the sun to stand still.

According to the story, God was worried this unified group of people having one language and building this tower to Heaven would be unstoppable at anything they did. So he caused them to have multiple languages and scattered them across the earth.

1. Five
   Six
2. Eight
   Ten

Noah had eight people on the ark, which was only his immediate family: Noah, Noah's wife, Noah's sons Ham, Shem, and Japheth, and their wives. Everyone else was left outside the big boat.

1. Enoch and Elijah
   Adam and Eve
2. Abraham and Sarah
   Cain and Abel

According to Genesis, Enoch walked with God, "Then he was no more, because God took him away." In 2 Kings, Elijah "went up into heaven in the whirlwind," which had "a chariot of fire with horses of fire."

1. Five
   Eight
2. 10
   12

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses, the leader of the Israelites, had asked the pharaoh of Egypt to free the Israelites from captivity. The last plague had an angel of death come and kill every firstborn son, but the Israelites who had smeared goat's or sheep's blood on the doorpost had the angel pass over their homes and not kill their children. With every Egyptian house affected, the Egyptians were afraid of more death, so the Israelites were then quickly forced out of Egypt.

1. Isaac
   Jacob
2. Abraham
   Jesus

In the Book of Genesis, this story is about testing Abraham's faith in God. Abraham was ready to kill Isaac, but an angel stopped him. Abraham found a ram stuck in the bushes and sacrificed that animal instead.

1. Joseph
   Adam
2. Noah
   Moses

Moses was tending to his flocks and heard God call his voice. The voice of God came from the burning bush. This is where God told Moses to go and liberate the Israelites from slavery.

1. 10
   25
2. 40
   50

The Israelites took the very long, meandering way to get to the Promised Land, Canaan. The Book of Joshua explains that it took 40 years to get to Canaan because the Lord did not want anyone of military age to enter Canaan "since they had not obeyed the LORD."

1. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
   Matthew, Mark and Luke
2. Paul, Silas and Barnabas
   Cain, Abel and Seth

When Israelites were in captivity in Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were three young Jewish men who refused to worship a golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had commanded everyone to worship. They were thrown in a furnace, which was made seven times hotter than usual. Not only did the men not burn, they were given promotions by Nebuchadnezzar, who said that no one could speak out against their God.

1. Adam
   Noah
2. Solomon
   Moses

After leaving Egypt, Moses went up to Mount Sinai to talk with the Lord, who came down as a cloud. This site is where he received the Ten Commandments, which were laws about only worshipping God and how to treat others.

1. Samson
   David
2. Goliath
   Jesus

Betrayed by his lover, Delilah, Samson's hair was cut and his eyes were gouged out. Samson is brought to a Philistine temple for a religious ceremony and asks God to give him back his strength so he could kill everyone in the temple. His prayers are answered and Samson breaks a pillar which collapses the temple, killing everyone including himself.

1. David
   Aaron
2. Moses
   Solomon

David, who became king of Israel, was also known to be a musician. When he was in King Saul's courts, he would play the lyre for the king to soothe him. David has at least 73 psalms attributed to him in the Book of Psalms.

1. The frogs of the Egyptian plague
   The big fish that swallowed Jonah
2. The pigs that had demons sent into them by Jesus
   The serpent in the Garden of Eden

The serpent at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil spoke with Eve about eating from the tree, tempting her to defy God's order. The other animal that spoke in the Bible was a donkey asking Balaam not to hit him, a story found in the Book of Numbers, chapter 22.

1. Solomon
   David
2. Enoch
   Methuselah

King Solomon was King David's son and was the last king to rule a united Israel before it split into the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah (the kingdom Solomon's descendants ruled). Solomon was not only very wise, but he was also very rich and powerful.

1. Samson
   David
2. Jeremiah
   Daniel

Daniel, a young Jewish nobleman, was thrown in a lion's den because he continued to pray to God three times a day after a law was passed saying that no one could worship any god for 30 days. Those who hated Daniel tricked King Darius into creating this law. God kept the lions' mouths closed while Daniel was in the den, so he remained safe.

1. The Gospels
   The Torah
2. The Pentateuch
   The Books of Jesus

The Gospels (meaning "good news") give four different and at times overlapping accounts of the life of Jesus in 1st century Palestine. The first four books of the Bible are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

1. John
   Judas Iscariot
2. James
   Peter

Peter, James and John were considered to be part of Jesus' inner circle. Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' disciples, betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

1. Nazareth
   Capernaum
2. Jerusalem
   Bethlehem

The Gospels aren't consistent as to why Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The Gospel of Luke says it's because his parents, Joseph and Mary, had to go there for a census. The Gospel of Matthew mentions no census. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, lived in Capernaum during his ministry and had some notable moments in Jerusalem, including chasing out the money changers at a temple.

1. Healing a blind man
   Turning water into wine
2. Raising a man from the dead
   Feeding 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish

Jesus' mother, Mary, tells Jesus about the wine running out. He then asks servants to bring out six water jars and to then draw some out for the master of the banquet. Unaware of the miracle Jesus had performed, the master told the groom that this wine was better than the first wine.

1. Three
   Five
2. Six
   Nine

The term "Major Prophet" in the Bible has more to do with book length than importance. The Major Prophets are five books written by four prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations (written by Jeremiah), Ezekiel, and Daniel.

1. Passover
   Pentecost
2. Christmas
   Sunday

Pentecost was an important event in the founding of the early Christian church. In the Gospel of John, Jesus told his disciples about a "Spirit of truth" and an "Advocate" who could come after him. It's believe that this Advocate is the Holy Spirit.

1. Jesus
   Paul
2. Timothy
   David

Paul the Apostle, also known as Saul, was an integral part of the early Christian Church with his three missionary trips around the Mediterranean. His letters to different churches and specific individuals (e.g., Timothy) make up 13 out of the 27 books in the New Testament. He may have written the Book of Hebrews, but no one is certain who wrote that book.

1. 1 Corinthians 13
   2 Corinthians 13
2. John 1
   Song of Solomon

1 Corinthians 13 is from the first letter to the church at Corinth, Greece written by Paul the Apostle. This chapter could be considered an ode to divine love.

1. Revelations
   Jude
2. 3 John
   Epilogue

The Book of Revelations is attributed to John, who may or may not be the same John who was Jesus' disciple. The book's vivid, apocalyptic imagery is considered by many Christians as a prophetic book about the end of the world and Jesus' second coming.