Book of Odes (Bible)

Old Testament and Tanakh

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Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox Tobit Judith 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon) Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) (Wisdom of Sirach) Baruch Letter of Jeremiah - Considered as part of Baruch in Roman Catholic Tradition Additions to Daniel Additions to Esther

Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox 1 Esdras (3 Esdras) 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees Book of Odes (includes Prayer of Manasseh) Psalm 151

Russian and Oriental Orthodox 2 Esdras (4 Esdras)

Oriental Orthodox Jubilees Enoch

Odes (΄Ωδαὶ) is a book of the Bible found only in Eastern Orthodox Bibles and included or appended after Psalms in Alfred Rahlfs' critical edition of the Septuagint, coming from the fifth-century Codex Alexandrinus. The chapters are prayers and songs (canticles) from the Old and New Testaments.

Chapters of this book as presented by Rahlfs are:

1. First Ode of Moses (Exodus 15:1-19)
2. Second Ode of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1-43)
3. Prayer of Anna, the Mother of Samuel (1 Samuel 2:1-10)
4. Prayer of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 3:2-19)
5. Prayer of Isaias (Isaiah 26:9-20)
6. Prayer of Jonah (Jonah 2:3-10)
7. Prayer of Azariah (Daniel 3:26-45, a deuterocanonical portion)
8. Song of the Three Young Men (Daniel 3:52-88, a deuterocanonical portion)
9. The Magnificat; Prayer of Mary the Theotokos (Luke 1:46-55)
10. Benedictus Canticle of Zachariah (Luke 1:68-79)
11. Canticle of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1-9)
12. Prayer of Hezekiah (Isaiah 38:10-20)
13. Prayer of Manasseh, King of Judah when he was holden captive in Babylon (ref. in 2 Chronicles 33:11-13 and appears also as a separate deuterocanonical book)
14. Nunc dimittis; Prayer of Simeon (Luke 2:29-32)
15. Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Canticle of the Early Morning (some lines from Luke 2:14, Psalm 144:2 and Psalm 118:12)

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Preceded by Psalms

Eastern Orthodox Old Testament see Deuterocanon

Followed by Proverbs