A Catholic Bible app for reading and studying all 73 books

Choose a Catholic edition and the reader lists 73 books. Beside the 66 that every edition in Scripture Deck shares are the deuterocanonical books: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch, whose sixth chapter is the Letter of Jeremiah.

Esther and Daniel come in their longer Catholic form: Esther with its Greek additions, including the prayers of Mordecai and Esther, and Daniel with the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three in chapter 3, Susanna as chapter 13, and Bel and the Dragon as chapter 14.

The books sit in Catholic order among the Old Testament books: Tobit and Judith after Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Maccabees after Esther, Wisdom and Sirach after the Song of Solomon, and Baruch after Lamentations. Choose Next chapter at the end of Nehemiah 13 and you arrive at Tobit 1.

On a tablet or computer, Book and chapter lists every book in Old and New Testament columns; on a phone, the Book menu has a search field. Book names are the same in every edition, so the Douay-Rheims also lists 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Chronicles, and Sirach under those names. The search knows older names too: type Tobias or Ecclesiasticus to find Tobit or Sirach.

Catholic Bibles don’t all number the same way, so Scripture Deck shows each edition as it is printed. A short note at the top of the chapter explains the difference: beside every psalm in the Douay-Rheims, for example, and beside Esther and Daniel 3, 13, and 14 in the World English Bible (Catholic).

• Psalms in the Douay-Rheims: it keeps the Latin Vulgate’s numbers, so most psalms from 10 to 147 are one lower than in other editions, and its Psalm 22 is Psalm 23 elsewhere. A psalm’s title counts as its first verse or two: its Psalm 22:1 begins “A psalm for David.”
• Tobit, Judith, and Sirach in the Douay-Rheims: these translate the Vulgate’s form of the books, so their verses line up with other editions only roughly.
• Esther: the World English Bible (Catholic) prints most of the Greek additions inside the verse they follow, with the prayers as Esther 4:18–47. The Douay-Rheims gathers the additions at the end of the book, from 10:4 through chapter 16.
• Daniel: both editions print the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three as Daniel 3:24–90, so the verses other Bibles number 3:24–30 become 3:91–97.

Switching editions follows the passage, not the number: from Douay-Rheims Psalm 22, choosing the World English Bible opens Psalm 23. Study you link to a verse stays with the same passage in every edition.

To see the difference without signing in, open Psalm 23:1 in all eleven editions, where the Douay-Rheims appears as Psalm 22:1.

Select a verse or passage in a Catholic edition and the usual actions appear: Note, Memorize, Map, and Details. A note’s Scripture block, a memory card, and a mind-map node keep the reference and the edition you chose. A card for Wisdom 3:1 made in the Douay-Rheims is labeled Wisdom 3:1 (DRA) and keeps its wording, and Details shows everything you have linked to that verse.

Choose Parallel to read up to three more editions beside the one you are reading, lined up verse by verse even where the numbering differs. Read more about comparing translations side by side.

For the 66 books both canons share, Original shows the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words beneath each verse. The word library doesn’t cover Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, or the Greek parts of Esther and Daniel. Read more about Greek and Hebrew word study.

Collections can gather passages from the Catholic books too. A collection page prints passages in the World English Bible, and the Catholic books in the World English Bible (Catholic).