The Ethiopian Bible

The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. At 81 books, it is the largest and most diverse biblical canon in traditional Christendom.

Western scholars have classified the books of the canon into two categories — the narrower canon, which consists mostly of books familiar to the West, and the broader canon, which includes nine additional books.

It is not known to exist at this time as one published compilation. Some books, though considered canonical, are nonetheless difficult to locate and are not even widely available in the churches' home countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Narrower canon

Old Testament

The Orthodox Tewahedo narrower Old Testament canon contains the entire established Hebrew protocanon. Moreover, with the exception of the first two books of Maccabees, the Orthodox Tewahedo canon also contains the entire Catholic deuterocanon. In addition to this, the Orthodox Tewahedo Old Testament includes the Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Ezra, and 4 Ezra, which also appear in the canons of other Christian traditions. Unique to the Orthodox Tewahedo canon are the Paralipomena of Jeremiah (4 Baruch), Jubilees, Enoch, and the three books of Meqabyan.

The books of Lamentations, Jeremiah, and Baruch, as well as the Letter of Jeremiah and 4 Baruch, are all considered canonical by the Orthodox Tewahedo churches. Additionally, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Books of Ethiopian Maccabees are also part of the canon; while they share a common name they are completely different from the books of Maccabees that are known or have been canonized in other traditions. Finally, within the Orthodox Tewahedo tradition, 3 Ezra is called Second Ezra, 4 Ezra is called Ezra Sutu'el, and the Prayer of Manasseh is incorporated into the Second Book of Chronicles.

New Testament

The Orthodox Tewahedo narrower New Testament canon consists of the entire 27 book Christian protocanon, which is almost universally accepted across Christendom.

Broader canon

The broader canon adds to the 81 books of the Tewahedo bible the following:

• Josippon (1 book)
• Sinodos (4 books)
• Books of Covenant (2 books)
• Ethiopic Clement (1 book)
• Didascalia (1 book)

The Ethiopic Didascalia, or Didesqelya, is a book of Church order in 43 chapters, distinct from the Didascalia Apostolorum, but similar to books I–VII of the Apostolic Constitutions, where it most likely originates. Ethiopic Clement should not be confused with 1 Clement or 2 Clement.[2]

The broader canon seems to have been created by Ethiopian scholars commenting on the Fetha Negest law code, which says that the canon contains 81 books, but only lists 73. The additional eight books were those presumed to be missing from the list. 

List of books in the Orthodox Tewahedo Bible

In the Old Testament

List of Old Testament books in the Orthodox Tewahedo Bible:

1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. 1 and 2 Samuel
10. 1 and 2 Kings
11. I Chronicles
12. II Chronicles (incl. the Prayer of Manasseh)
13. Jubilees
14. Enoch
15. 1 Izra (Ezra–Nehemiah)
16. 2 Izra (Greek Esdras)
17. Izra Sutuel ("Ezra Shealtiel", ie 4 Ezra)
18. Tobit
19. Judith
20. Esther
21. 1, 2, and 3 Meqabyan (sometimes called Ethiopian Maccabees, but not the same as the four Greek Books of the Maccabees)
22. Job
23. Psalms
24. Messale (Proverbs ch 1–24)
25. Tagsas (Proverbs ch 25–31)
26. Wisdom of Solomon
27. Ecclesiastes
28. Song of Songs
29. Sirach
30. Isaiah
31. Jeremiah (incl. Baruch, Lamentations, Letter of Jeremiah, and 4 Baruch)
32. Ezekiel
33. Daniel
34. Hosea
35. Amos
36. Micah
37. Joel
38. Obadiah
39. Jonah
40. Nahum
41. Habakkuk
42. Zephaniah
43. Haggai
44. Zechariah
45. Malachi
46. Josippon

In the New Testament

List of New Testament books in the Orthodox Tewahedo Bible.

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John
5. Acts
6. Romans
7. 1 Corinthians
8. 2 Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. 1 Thessalonians
14. 2 Thessalonians
15. 1 Timothy
16. 2 Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19. Hebrews
20. 1 Peter
21. 2 Peter
22. 1 John
23. 2 John
24. 3 John
25. James
26. Jude
27. Revelation

In the Church Order

List of Church Order books that are part of the broader canon:

1. Sinodos
   • Ser'ata Seyon (30 canons)
   • Te'ezaz (71 canons)
   • Gessew (56 canons)
   • Abtelis (81 canons1 

    2.         1 Covenant.

    3.         2 Covenant.

    4.         Ethiopic Clement. 

    5.         Didascalia.

(((It is obvious that in general, the Ethiopian Bible aligns in full with the Western Christian canon acceptance regarding the New Testament. There is however,  claims of some additional teachings of Jesus Christ. It also aligns with the majority of canons in the Old Testament, but as we must understand, several different Christian branches were active around the time of christ and aspecially the first 300-400 years after his death. This also resulted in different records of scriptural chapters. After Roman Emperor Constantines Council in Niceae 325 AD, which alledgedly wanted to "unify" the Christian branches into one (censor, burn and bann the versions that did not align with the narrated purpose), some Christian branches fled the persecution and hid their scriptures from destruction.  What is to be seen as canon and what is not ? It should be noted that the book of Jubilees and the Book of Enoch should be validated as important input since they are mentioned and validated in many other chapters in the Bible. The findings in the Dead Sea Scrolls also strongly validates the writings as being of the most read and spread scriptures - But on the other hand, there was the risk that many of the Gnostic writings, which were written after the death of Jesus and the people who were contemporaries of Jesus, were posthumous constructions and did not bear the authentic fingerprints of these people..)))

The most common 7 books that separate the Ethiopian Bible from the Western downscaled version of the Bible are:

1. The Book of Enoch, reveals the story of Angels who descended to earth and corrupted mankind.

2. The Book of Jubilees, retells Genisis with secrets about Time and Divine Calendars. The aligned early Hebrew and Julian Calendars was replaced with the distorted Gregorian Calendar by the Catholic church and pope Gregory in 1582.

3. The Gospel of Thomas, contains hidden sayings of Jesus, enpowering individual spiritual growth and consciousness of the Kingdom within. As such a direct opponent to man made organized and regulated religious control. The external Kingdoms. No intermediates were ever necessary.

4. The Apocalypse of Peter, gives graphic descriptions of hell that were deemed to disturbing for the western councils. 

5. The Book of Wisdom speaks directly about spiritual warfare in the afterlife. Essential knowledge for any soul that strives to free itself from slavery and oppression.

6. 2:nd Ezras, predicts end Time events with precise accuracy.

7. The Book of Baruch, questions Babylon and Roman Rule - its corruption, pagan worship and idolatry, making it politically dangerous for western controlling councils.

 (((One can argue that the exclusion from Catholic Western church doctrine was because of creative gnostic storytelling using the names from the time when Jesus lived for enhancing fictive stories with authenticity or merely just coincidental in nature, but even stronger arguments can be made that the exclusion was both deliberate and strategic in order to control religion as a tool in order to govern people for one's own purposes. The debate goes on regarding the validity of many of the gnostic texts)))

Jesus additional teachings.

The Ethiopian Bible embraces some of Jesus' teachings that are not included in the Western European versions of the Bible. The book of Jubilees wich are the fundamental settings of time cycles, appointments and seasons given to Moses by GOD. The Gospel of Tomas wich These teachings are revolutionary in their transformative content. They instruct the individual that they are part of the universe and creation and can shape their own future and determine the outcome depending on their own prayers, affirmative thinking and practice. When learning this method of thinking, future outcomes are influenced to manifest more in the direction that the thought affirms. 

(((In this context it might be of importance to notice that there are no documentations about Jesus life between the age of 12 to 30 years of his life. There are also several gnostical texts (preserved in Ethiopia) that whitness Jesus as a teacher after his death and resurrection at 33 AD, and claims record of his additional messages.))) 

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(((I will share this perspective, because it needs to be in this record.)))

The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest known Bible. 

15 books were deliberately removed from your western Bible, not lost in time, not  destroyed by accident, but removed by men in power who decided what you should and should´nt know about GOD. While most of the Bibles of today have 66 books in total, there is a version hidden in the mountains of Africa, in a nation that Rome could never fully conquer, that contains 81 complete books. 15 forbidden text. Books so dangerous that possessing them in medieval europe could get you executed for heresy.

One of these forbidden books describe angels (Watchers) descending to earth, having relations with human women and creating Giants, 450 meter tall hybrids that consumed humanity until GOD had to reset creation with a flood. Your Bible mentions this in 4 verses but this book explains it in 108 complete chapters. 

Another book reveals a perfect 364 day calendar (devidable with 7 to form a perfect 52 calendar week) that GOD gave to Moses. A calendar that would expose how Rome manipulated time itself to control when you worship and miss these appointments. 

Yet another book describing the final judgement so graphically and explicitly that the organized church banned it because it said; "You do not need priests as intermediaries between you and salvation."

These are ancient manuscripts preserved for 1700 years by the Ethiopian ortodox church. Ethiopia, the only African nation that were never colonized. The only christian church that maintained complete independence from Rome. The only Bible that preserved texts that the 325 AD Council of Nicaea decided to eliminate. 

Among those forbidden texts is the book of Enoch (((read more in specific chapter))). This is a very powerful and revealing that it was directly quoted in the current western Bible. The Bible that you hold in your hand quotes a book that is no longer included in it. In Jude, verse 14 - 15 it states explicitly that; "Enoch, the 7th from Adam prphecied about them, see the lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones." Jude is quoting word for word the book of Enoch chapter 1 verse 9. This arises the question, if a New Testament apostle considered the book of Enoch important enough to quote directly, why was it removed ? Why does todays Bibles mention a book you can no longer read ?  

What Rome feared was not only the content of these removed books, they feared what would happen if you discovered them, they feared you realizing that the version of christianity you were given, was filtered through political power. 

These 15 books containes detailed prophecies about the last days. Complete stories about the birth and childhood of Jesus. Mystical teachings about the inner kingdom. Apocalyptical revelations more graphic than the Revelation of John. Testimony about women leaders in early christianity. Sacret calendars. They were all declared heretical, not because they were false, but because they did not fit the control model Rome wanted to establish. 

Ethiopia refused to comply to the Roman Catholoic reversed canon. When Roman emperor Constantine convened the 325 AD Council of Nicaea to decide wich books would be official and wich books would be forbidden, Ethiopia already had its own established church independent of Rome. While europe burned in man-made religious wars and political councils, Ethiopia silently preserved the texts that Rome was destroying. 

Ethiopian munks copied by hand, generation after generation, the complete gospels, not the edited version, the complete version in the local language and text of Geez (((read more in specific chapter))). It was an ancient language that conquerers could not understand and therefore could not censor. So, while in europe, entire libraries of heretical text were being burned, in the mountains of Ethiopia, hidden monestaries guarded the unedited version of the Bible. Today, those texts are still there. 

The year 325 AD, is the moment when Christianity stopped being a persecuted faith and became the official religion of the Roman Empire. But that change came at a prize. Emperor Constantine convened more than 300 bishops to the council of Nicaea with a clear objective, to unify christianity under a single controllable doctrine. To achieve this unification something had to be sacrificed. Diversity, the plurality of texts, the different interpretations that existed in the early christian communities. 

According to preserved historical records, before the council of Nicaea, there were dozens of gospels, apostolic letters, apocalypses and prophetic books circulating among christian communities. Each community had its own sacret texts. Each local church preserved teachings they had received directly from the Apostles. But emperor Constantine needed uniformity, he needed a single canon, a single official version that everyone would accept. So began the greatest censorship in the history of Christianity. The Bishops gathered at Nicaea made decisions that would change everything.

Only 27 books would be accepted in the New Testament. Only 4 gospels would be considered authentic; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The rest would be declared Apocryphal, heretical, forbidden. Communities that insisted on reading them would be persecuted. Those decision were not made out of divine inspiration - it was a political decision, a decision made by men with power in a context of emperial control. Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, professor in religious studies at the University of North Carolina, explains it as follows: "The books that ended up in the New Testament were not the only texts considered sacret by the early Christians. There was a battle for ortodoxy and the winners wrote the history. Winners is the key here. The texts you all know today are not necesseraly the most sacret, they are the ones who won the political battle. 

But Ethiopia did not participate in that battle. When Rome was deciding which books to eliminate, Ethiopia already had its own complete collection and they decided not to eliminate anything, they preserved everything. The 81 books that today make up the Ethiopian Bible include the 66 books you know and additionally:

1.  The book of Enoch. 108 chapters about fallen angels, and prophesies.

2. The book of Jubilees. Detailed writings of Genesis.

3. The book of Maccabees 1, 2, 3. Stories of resistance and faith.

4. The complete books of Esdras 1,2. Apocalyptic visions.

5. The book of Tobit. Angels, demons and deliverance.

6. The book of Judith. A warrior woman who saved Israel.

7. The book of Wisdom of Solomon. Deep philosophical teachings.

8. The book of Ecclesiasticus. Practical and spiritual wisdom.

9. The book of Baruch. Prophecy and consolation.

10 The letter of Jeremiah. Warning against idolatry.

11. The prayer of Azariah. Faith in the midst of fire.

12. The song of The 3 young men. Praise in persecution.

13. The book of Susanna. Devine justice revealed.

14. The book of Bel and the dragon. Daniel destroying dragons.

15. The book of the Shepherd of Hermas. Visions and angelic commandments.

15 comblete books that contain prophesies about the last days that are being played out, some being fullfilled now as we breathe. Stories of powerful women that the church preferred to forget. Teachings about watchers - angels and demons that explain Genesis 6. Apocalyptic visions more detailed than the revelation of John. Spiritual instructions that Jesus himself would have known. Why were they removed ? Beacuse they were dangerous. Not dangerous to your faith, dangerous to institutional control. 

The book of Enoch spoke of Watchers - Angels who disobeyed God and taught forbidden secrets to humanity, that questioned  the narrative  to blind obedience to religious authority. The book of Judith tells the story about a warrior woman who saves Israel with intelligence and courage, that questioned the established patriarchy. The Shepherd of Hermas teaches that forgiveness is possible even after baptism, that questioned the control of the sacraments of penance. And on it goes.

According to traditions preserved in Ethiopia, these texts were considered sacret by early Christian communities for centuries. They were not rejected for lack of authenticity, they were rejected bacause they did not fit the control model that Rome wanted to establish and Ethiopia refused to eliminate them.

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1. Ethiopian Bible. Jesus hidden  teachings. 4000 years of lies. Neville Goddard - 2025.

https://youtu.be/r4aurMJELSo?si=yXQchfso3fVVfGx2

2. The Ethiopian Bible. Jesus teaching his followers. Napoleon Hills Wisdom - 2025.

https://youtu.be/NDzLMGj9ONk?si=k4hiIPH8L6ExX4qe

3. The Ethiopian Bible reveal. Forbidden Gospel. Audio - 2025.

https://youtu.be/32fGyLPGB5k?si=10VAd5XSjpRCXaNB

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