Bible Differences?

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I have a Douay Rheims bible and discovered that some of the psalms are different than in protestant bibles, specifically Psalm 23 for one. Why is this?
 
They are just numbered differently. If you check the text against the text of the # psalm before/after the # you are looking for, it is there.
I can’t tell you off the top of my head which are combined, & which divided. But you still have 150 Psalms. They contain the same textual material in total…
We have to remember that while chapter & verse references are wonderful conveniences, they are an artificial construct added to Sacred Scripture, for ease in referencing. They were not in the early texts, certainly…
 
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