Why is Malachi numbered differently in the NAB?

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I noticed that my Douay-Rheims, NASB, KJV, ESV, RSV, and The Message** all have 4 chapters for the Book of Malachi. The NAB has the same verses but eliminates the 4th chapter and puts those verses at the end of chapter 3. Why did the translators of the NAB change the numbering of the Book of Malachi?
 
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I noticed that my Douay-Rheims, NASB, KJV, ESV, RSV, and The Message all have 4 chapters for the Book of Malachi. The NAB has the same verses but eliminates the 4th chapter and puts those verses at the end of chapter 3. Why did the translators of the NAB change the numbering of the Book of Malachi?
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The full text is there - the chapter divisions differ. Most OTs have a chapter 3 of 18 verses, followed by a six-verse chapter 4 - some, including the NAB, follow the Tanakh (= the Jewish Bible), and leave those six verses as part of chapter 3. The Tanakh thus has 24 verses in Malachi 3; it also repeats v. 23 after 24, so that the book won’t end with a curse. Malachi, which is the last book of the Prophets, is followed by the Writings: but that is BTW.​

Every so often, one finds places where the Jewish verse-numbers differe from those in Christian Bibles - that is perhaps the most obvious.
 
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The full text is there - the chapter divisions differ. Most OTs have a chapter 3 of 18 verses, followed by a six-verse chapter 4 - some, including the NAB, follow the Tanakh (= the Jewish Bible), and leave those six verses as part of chapter 3. The Tanakh thus has 24 verses in Malachi 3; it also repeats v. 23 after 24, so that the book won’t end with a curse. Malachi, which is the last book of the Prophets, is followed by the Writings: but that is BTW.​

Every so often, one finds places where the Jewish verse-numbers differe from those in Christian Bibles - that is perhaps the most obvious.
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Thanks. I always was curious why the NAB was different from all the other Bibles I own.
 
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Every so often, one finds places where the Jewish verse-numbers differe from those in Christian Bibles - that is perhaps the most obvious.
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Is the NAB the only translation that follows the verse-numbers of the Jewish Bible for the book of Malachi?
 
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