ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CANON

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Preserved distinctly.

A canon-aware library view based on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's published 46-book Old Testament and 35-book New Testament enumeration. English text is only attached when its provenance and redistribution status are defensible.

COLLECTION8146 Old Testament · 35 New Testament canonical entries

01 · READERKJV Bible66 books · local text · narration 02 · CANONTewahedo81-book Ethiopian Orthodox collection 03 · MANUSCRIPTSDead Sea ScrollsCurated manuscript study library

CANON ≠ TRANSLATION

This page identifies the Tewahedo canonical collection. Where a book overlaps the KJV, XIGEN offers the KJV only as an English reference text. It does not label KJV wording as an Ethiopic/Tewahedo translation.

Official canon source

46 BOOKS

Old Testament

The numbering and names below follow the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's published canonical list. KJV links are reference-text overlaps only; they are not presented as an Ethiopic translation.

01

Genesis

KJV reference available

02

Exodus

KJV reference available

03

Leviticus

KJV reference available

04

Numbers

KJV reference available

05

Deuteronomy

KJV reference available

06

Joshua

KJV reference available

07

Judges

KJV reference available

08

Ruth

KJV reference available

09

I and II Samuel

KJV reference available

I Samuel II Samuel

10

I and II Kings

KJV reference available

I Kings II Kings

11

I Chronicles

KJV reference available

12

II Chronicles

KJV reference available

13

Jublee (Jubilees)

Verified public-domain English source

Local Charles 1917 text is live. Addressing uses explicitly labeled Sefaria electronic segments because those do not map one-to-one to the printed verse numbering.

Read local Charles 1917 1917 public-domain scan

14

Enoch

Verified public-domain English source

Local Charles 1917 text is live with source-defined verse addressing normalized across lettered and reordered critical-edition markers.

Read local Charles 1917 1917 public-domain source

15

Ezra and Nehemia

KJV reference available

16

Ezra (2nd) and Ezra Sutuel

English source review pending

17

Tobit

English source review pending

18

Judith

English source review pending

19

Esther

KJV reference available

20

I Maccabees

English source review pending

21

II and III Maccabees

English source review pending

22

Job

KJV reference available

23

Psalms

KJV reference available

24

Proverbs

KJV reference available

25

Tegsats (Reproof)

English source review pending

26

Metsihafe Tibeb (the books of wisdom)

English source review pending

27

Ecclesiastes

KJV reference available

28

Song of Songs

KJV reference available

29

Isaiah

KJV reference available

30

Jeremiah

KJV reference available

31

Ezekiel

KJV reference available

32

Daniel

KJV reference available

33

Hosea

KJV reference available

34

Amos

KJV reference available

35

Micah

KJV reference available

36

Joel

KJV reference available

37

Obadiah

KJV reference available

38

Jonah

KJV reference available

39

Nahum

KJV reference available

40

Habakkuk

KJV reference available

41

Zephaniah

KJV reference available

42

Haggai

KJV reference available

43

Zechariah

KJV reference available

44

Malachi

KJV reference available

45

Book of Joshua the son of Sirac

English source review pending

46

Book of Josephas the Son of Bengorion

English source review pending

35 BOOKS

New Testament

The numbering and names below follow the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's published canonical list. KJV links are reference-text overlaps only; they are not presented as an Ethiopic translation.

01

Matthew

KJV reference available

02

Mark

KJV reference available

03

Luke

KJV reference available

04

John

KJV reference available

05

Acts

KJV reference available

06

Romans

KJV reference available

07

I Corinthians

KJV reference available

08

II Corinthians

KJV reference available

09

Galatians

KJV reference available

10

Ephesians

KJV reference available

11

Philippians

KJV reference available

12

Colossians

KJV reference available

13

I Thessalonians

KJV reference available

14

II Thessalonians

KJV reference available

15

I Timothy

KJV reference available

16

II Timothy

KJV reference available

17

Titus

KJV reference available

18

Philemon

KJV reference available

19

Hebrews

KJV reference available

20

I Peter

KJV reference available

21

II Peter

KJV reference available

22

I John

KJV reference available

23

II John

KJV reference available

24

III John

KJV reference available

25

James

KJV reference available

26

Jude

KJV reference available

27

Revelation

KJV reference available

28

Sirate Tsion

English source review pending

29

Tizaz

English source review pending

30

Gitsew

English source review pending

31

Abtilis

English source review pending

32

I book of Dominos

English source review pending

33

II book of Dominos

English source review pending

34

Book of Clement

English source review pending

35

Didascalia

English source review pending

LOCAL READER AVAILABLE

1 Enoch

R. H. Charles, 1917. Project Gutenberg public-domain text is now locally searchable and narratable across 108 chapters. XIGEN preserves Charles's wording while normalizing only the address layer for lettered and reordered critical-edition verse markers.

Open local reader →Source edition

LOCAL READER AVAILABLE

Jubilees

R. H. Charles, 1917. The public-domain Charles text is locally searchable and narratable across 50 chapters. This first release labels its addresses as electronic segments because the structured Sefaria alignment does not map one-to-one to Charles's printed verse numbering.

Open local reader →Source scan