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title: "Catholic Bible Guides: Psalms, the 73 Books & More · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/guides/
description: "Plain, sourced guides to the Catholic Bible: why the Psalms have two numberings, how many books and verses it has, the deuterocanon, and where to begin."
updated: 2026-10-20
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Guides

# Guides to the Catholic Bible

Short, plain answers to the questions people ask before they open a Catholic Bible, with every number counted from the text Bless ships.

Updated October 20, 2026

The Psalms · 5 min read

## [Psalm numbering: Vulgate and Hebrew](https://blessbible.app/guides/psalm-numbering/)

Why most psalms carry two numbers, a converter, and a chart of all 150.

The canon · 2 min read

## [The Catholic Bible by the numbers](https://blessbible.app/guides/catholic-bible-by-the-numbers/)

73 books, 1,334 chapters, 35,804 verses, book by book, and why other Bibles count differently.

The canon · 6 min read

## [The deuterocanonical books](https://blessbible.app/guides/deuterocanonical-books/)

Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees and the Greek parts of Esther and Daniel.

Reading · 3 min read

## [Where to start reading the Catholic Bible](https://blessbible.app/guides/where-to-start-reading-the-catholic-bible/)

Genesis, Mark or John: three good beginnings, and how to read in order at your own pace.

## Keep *reading*

Read

### [The 73 books](https://blessbible.app/bible/)

Every book of the Catholic Bible, with Bp. Challoner’s summaries of 1,306 of its 1,334 chapters.

Translation

### [The CPDV](https://blessbible.app/translations/cpdv/)

The Catholic Public Domain Version, the translation on every page of this site.

Translation

### [The Clementine Vulgate](https://blessbible.app/translations/clementine-vulgate/)

The Latin Bible of 1592 that the CPDV and the Douay-Rheims were translated from.

The Church’s year

### [Liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/)

Seasons, colors, feasts and Mass reading citations, day by day.

## How these guides *are made*

The guides are written by Funn Apps, the makers of Bless. Every count in them is printed from the same database the app ships, and all Scripture in them is quoted from the CPDV. Where scholars disagree, the guides say so rather than pick a side.

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