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The 14 Lost Books of the King James Bible — Dropped in 1826 to Cut Printing Costs

Quoted by the apostles. Confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Left out of the Bible you read today — and almost no one was ever told.

Mon. May 25, 2026 | 11:11 am EST - 251328 👁

Written by Taylor Anne

If you grew up reading the King James Bible, I need to tell you something that took me years to fully accept.

The Bible in your hands today is missing books.

Not a few verses. Not a footnote. Fourteen entire books — books that were printed in the original 1611 King James Bible, books the earliest Christians read, copied, and treasured for over a thousand years.

They were there when the King James was first printed. And then, slowly, they disappeared.

Most believers today have no idea this happened. They assume the 66 books they own are the complete, untouched Word — exactly as it has always been.

It isn't.

And once you see what was removed and who quoted these books — you may never read your Bible the same way again.

Here's the part most people never learn in church.

Here's the part most people never learn in church.

When the King James Bible was first published in 1611, it contained 80 books — the 66 you know, plus 14 more, grouped together as the Apocrypha. They sat right there between the Old and New Testaments. For over 200 years, that was simply the Bible.

So what changed?

Money and printing.

In the 1820s, Bible-printing societies were trying to produce Scripture as cheaply and widely as possible. The Apocrypha made Bibles longer, heavier, and more expensive to print. In 1826, the largest of them — the British and Foreign Bible Society — decided it would no longer fund the printing of those 14 books. To cut cost and size.

It wasn't a dramatic conspiracy. It was a business and logistics decision. But the effect on you, the reader, was profound:

An entire library of scripture that the early church considered worth preserving was quietly dropped from the book you inherited — and nobody told you.

Within a few generations, most Protestants had never even seen those pages. The books didn't get disproven. They got left out for convenience. And the memory of them faded.

Now, you might be thinking: "If these books were removed, surely there was a good reason. Maybe they're not really scripture."

Now, you might be thinking: "If these books were removed, surely there was a good reason. Maybe they're not really scripture."

It's the right question to ask. So before I say another word about anything, let me show you the evidence. Not opinion. Not tradition. Evidence you can verify in your own Bible tonight.

1. The Disciples quote from these books directly

Open your Bible to the book of Jude. It's near the very end, just before Revelation. Read Jude verses 14 and 15:

"And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all..."

Now here's what almost no one realizes. That is not Jude's original prophecy.

He is quoting the Book of Enoch — 1 Enoch, chapter 1, verse 9 — almost word for word:

"And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgment upon all..."

Read them back to back. It's the same prophecy.

And here is the part that should stop you cold: Jude was the half-brother of Jesus Christ. Same mother. Raised in the same home as the Lord.

Jesus' own half-brother — writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in a book that is in your Bible — reached for the Book of Enoch to make his point. He treated it as scripture worth quoting.

So ask yourself: if the Book of Enoch was good enough for the brother of Jesus to quote as prophecy... why isn't it in your Bible?

2. Genesis says Enoch walked with God

Go back to the very beginning. Genesis chapter 5 lists the generations from Adam onward. It's a list of names, and almost every single one ends the same way: "and he died... and he died... and he died."

Except one.

Of Enoch, Genesis 5:24 says something it says of no one else in that entire genealogy:

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."

He didn't die. God took him right to Heaven. In the entire Bible, only two men are recorded as being taken by God without dying. Enoch and, much later, the prophet Elijah. That's it.

Genesis tells us this man walked so closely with God that he never tasted death — and then says almost nothing else about him.

Doesn't that strike you as strange? The man God Himself chose to spare from death... and Scripture as you have it gives him a single sentence?

It's because his book — the record of what he saw and what he prophesied — was set aside. The verse points to a story your Bible no longer tells you.

3. The Dead Sea Scrolls proved these books are ancient and authentic.

Now, maybe you're thinking the Book of Enoch is some medieval invention. A forgery written long after Christ. For a long time, that's exactly what critics assumed.

Then came 1947.

A shepherd boy, searching for a lost goat near the Dead Sea, threw a stone into a cave and heard pottery shatter. Inside those caves at a place called Qumran, archaeologists found clay jars containing hundreds of scrolls — a complete ancient library, sealed and hidden for nearly two thousand years.

These are the Dead Sea Scrolls. They contained the oldest copies of the Old Testament ever found — by a thousand years. And among them were the books of the Old Testament as the ancient world actually knew them.

And there, among the scrolls, were fragments of the Book of Enoch — written in the original Aramaic, copied between 200 and 150 years before the birth of Christ.

That settled it. The Book of Enoch was not a forgery. It was not medieval fiction. It was genuine ancient scripture, circulating among God's people in the very centuries leading up to Christ — the same world Jesus and the apostles were born into. They would have known it. Jude clearly did.

The evidence isn't fringe. It's buried in your own Bible and confirmed in the most important archaeological discovery in the history of Christianity.

So here's where that leaves you.

Take a breath, because this is a lot to take in.

A book quoted by the half-brother of Jesus...

About a man God loved so much He spared him from death...

Confirmed authentic by scrolls older than the New Testament itself...

...was quietly removed from the Bible you hold.

And it wasn't just that one book. It was fourteen of them.

So the natural question — the one that's probably forming right now — is this:

Is there anywhere on Earth these books survived intact? Is there a Bible that never removed them at all?

There is.

To find it, you have to look to the Oldest African Christian nation on Earth.

While Europe was still pagan, one kingdom in Africa — Ethiopia — had already embraced Christianity. It became one of the first nations on the planet to adopt the faith, and its church has preserved the scriptures, unbroken, for more than 1,500 years.

And here is the remarkable part:

The Ethiopian Church never removed the books.

While Western Bibles were trimmed down — first to 80 books, then to the 66 most Christians read today — Ethiopia kept the full canon exactly as the early church received it.

They kept the Book of Enoch. They kept the Book of Jubilees. They kept all 14 books that were stripped from the Protestant Bible.

And then they kept going. Their Bible contains those 14 removed books plus 8 more the West never had at all.

It is, by a wide margin, the most complete Bible on Earth — the closest thing in existence to the scriptures as the apostles and the earliest Christians actually knew them.

There was only ever one problem.

For 1,500 years, it existed almost entirely in Ge'ez — an ancient Ethiopian language almost no one outside the country can read. The most complete Bible in the world was, for all practical purposes, locked away from the English-speaking world.

Until now.

For the first time in history, the complete Ethiopian Bible has been carefully translated and published in English.

This is not a "study Bible" with a few extra books bolted on as an appendix. It is the full canon — every book the Ethiopian Church preserved, including all 66 you already know, plus the books the West set aside — finally readable in your own language.

Here is some of what's inside that most Christians have never been able to read:

📖 The Book of Enoch The book Jude quoted and the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed. Enoch — the man God "took" without death — records what he was shown: the origin of evil on earth, the story of the Watchers (the fallen angels of Genesis 6), the giants called the Nephilim, the coming judgment, and visions of the end of days. It reads like the missing backstory to Genesis and the missing preview of Revelation, all at once.

📖 The Book of Jubilees ("Little Genesis") A retelling of Genesis and Exodus, organized by "jubilees" — cycles of years — that fills in the story you only get fragments of: the lives of the patriarchs, the origins of the festivals and the calendar, the details Genesis leaves unsaid. Where Genesis gives you a sentence, Jubilees often gives you the whole scene.

📖 1, 2 & 3 Meqabyan Uniquely Ethiopian books (distinct from the Greek Maccabees most people know). They tell stories of faith under persecution, martyrs who refused to bow to idols, and they teach boldly on the resurrection of the body and unshakable faithfulness to God.

📖 The Esdras Books (Ezra Sutuel / 2 Esdras / Ezra Apocalypse) Powerful apocalyptic visions given to Ezra — questions humanity has always asked about suffering, justice, and the end of the age, answered in visions that echo Daniel and Revelation.

📖 Tobit & Judith Two unforgettable narratives — Tobit, a story of faith, angels, and answered prayer; Judith, the account of a woman whose courage saved her people.

📖 Wisdom of Solomon & Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Some of the richest wisdom literature ever written — in the same vein as Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, treasured by the early church for centuries.

📖 Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah & the Rest of Jeremiah (4 Baruch) The words and writings connected to the prophet Jeremiah and his scribe Baruch that were separated from the Jeremiah you know.

📖 The additions to Esther and Daniel The portions of Esther and Daniel — including stories like Susanna and Bel and the Dragon — that were trimmed out of the Protestant editions.

...and more.

Every page the early church read. Nothing trimmed for cost. Nothing left out for convenience.

And it's built to be worthy of what it contains:

In English — for the first time. What was locked in ancient Ge'ez for 1,500 years is finally open to you.

Bound as an heirloom. Forest-green linen, antique gold foil, sewn to be read by your children and your children's children — not a paperback that cracks in a year.

88 Books. 743 Pages, 9 by 6 inches, 10 point large font.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Natsha Jackson, Austin, TX: "Was looking for the book of Enoch for my husband but came across this Bible. The Church has had a wild history, and honestly I was skeptical about buying ANYTHING other than the Word I grew up reading. But this Bible doesn’t contradict anything from the KJB, ESV, or NIV. It just adds books and helps me understand more about my faith ❤️”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Esther Timmons, Richmond, VA: "I purchased this Ethiopian Bible to deepen my walk with God, and it has been such a blessing. Holding it feels like connecting to centuries of faith. The additional books offer wisdom and perspective that have strengthened my prayer life. The print is readable and the pages are well-made. Whether you’re Ethiopian Orthodox or simply curious about the broader Biblical canon, this edition brings you closer to God’s story. Highly recommend."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Adam Andrews, San Diego, CA: "The most comprehensive and easy to read bible, I’ve ever owned. Highly legible w/ large pages, large print, index is well organized and structured to find chapters easily. Has limited illustration. Easy to follow. Beautiful Bible. Wish I had it many years ago”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rhonda Cork, Orlando, FL: "I love it and will share with family"

Here's what I want you to sit with for a moment.

For most of your life, you've been reading a Bible with pages missing — and you didn't know. That's not your fault. Almost nobody was told.

But now you do know.

And the question becomes: how much longer do you want to read an incomplete Bible, when the complete one is finally available in your language?

The believers who read Enoch for the first time describe the same thing again and again — a sense that pieces of the story they'd been missing their whole lives suddenly clicked into place.

You don't have to wonder what's in those removed pages anymore. You can simply read them.

If you've read this far, two questions may be sitting in the back of your mind. They're good questions. Let me answer both honestly.

1: "If these books mattered, wouldn't God have protected His Bible? Surely He wouldn't let pages be taken out."

It's a faithful instinct — and here's the reassuring truth: God did protect them. That's exactly what this story shows.

These books were never destroyed. They were never lost. The decision in 1826 didn't erase a single word — it only stopped printing certain books to save money in one part of the world. The texts themselves survived, perfectly intact.

In fact, God preserved them through not one but two extraordinary witnesses: the Ethiopian Church, which guarded the complete canon unbroken for 1,500 years, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, sealed in a cave and revealed to the modern world in 1947 — confirming these books were authentic and ancient.

Think about that. The very books a printing committee set aside were, in that same era, being kept safe in the highlands of Africa and waiting in a sealed jar by the Dead Sea. That's not the story of a Bible falling apart. That's the story of God making sure nothing was truly lost — and bringing it back to light in our generation, in our language, right on time.

You're not reaching for something forbidden. You're receiving something faithfully preserved.

2: "I don't want to replace my Bible. I just want to read the books that were left out."

Then this is exactly right for you — because you're not replacing anything.

This edition contains your complete familiar Bible — all 66 books, Genesis to Revelation, the same Scripture you've read and loved your whole life — and then the books that were left out, all in one volume.

Nothing you trust is removed. Nothing is changed. Your Bible is all still here, cover to cover. You're simply adding back the books the early church read alongside it — so for the first time you can read the whole story in one place, in the order it was meant to be read.

Keep your current Bible. Treasure it. This one just gives you the rest of what was always meant to sit beside it.

Let me be honest with you about the price, because it matters.

An authentic Ethiopian Bible in English is normally a very expensive Bible, and for good reason. Almost nobody prints them. The translation work alone takes years. The paper, the printing, the binding, the people it takes to produce a book this size - it all adds up fast.

On top of that, there's the cost of protecting the work itself: there are people who would love to copy this literature and claim it as their own, and defending the copyright isn't cheap.

That's why, if you go looking for a complete Ethiopian Bible in English today, you'll usually find it priced in the hundreds of dollars. There's simply no one mass-producing them.

Except The Faith Made®

We are the only publisher producing the complete Ethiopian Bible in English at real volume. And because we print in volume, we can do something no one else can: offer it at a price ordinary believers can actually afford — without cutting a single page.

Here's the part you need to understand before you decide.

We print every one of these Bibles at our own factory in San Francisco — and we can only produce a few hundred at a time.

This isn't a marketing gimmick. It's the reality of how this book is made. Each one is bound in linen with gold foil, on quality paper, by people we pay a real wage. When a print run sells out, the next batch takes weeks to produce and bind.

So when we're out. We’re really out.

Now here's where it gets interesting.

A Bible like this — the most complete Bible on Earth, in English, bound to last generations, would normally sell for $200. That's in line with what authentic Ethiopian Bibles cost everywhere else, and honestly, given what goes into it, it's more than fair.

But something changed recently.

A wave of sellers — mostly out of China — started flooding the market with cheap, fake "Ethiopian Bibles." Knockoffs. Incomplete, poorly translated, badly bound. Because they cut every corner, they can compete on price.

We refuse to cut corners on the Word of God. But we also refuse to let families get cheated into buying a counterfeit because the real thing felt out of reach.

So we made a decision: we permanently lowered our price from $200 to $100. Not a sale — a permanent cut, so the authentic, complete Bible is never the "expensive" option again.

And right now, for this print run only, we're going further:

Today, the complete Ethiopian Bible is just $49 — 50% off our permanent price.

That's less than a quarter of what these Bibles normally sell for. Less than the fakes, in many cases — except this one is real, complete, and built to outlive you.

Order 2 or more copies and you'll also receive:

  • ✅ Free shipping on your entire order
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(Most people order more than one — one to read and mark, one to keep pristine, one to hand to family who need to see this for themselves.)

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So here’s my promise.

Read The Faith Made Ethiopian Bible for 30 days.

Whether that’s starting at Enoch, or going from front to back.

Read the books that were left out for yourself.

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THE CHOICE THAT WILL DEFINE YOUR NEXT DECADE

Right now, you’re at a crossroads.

Path #1: Close this page.

Go back to the Bible you've always read. Tell yourself you'll look into the missing books "someday." And keep reading 66 books, quietly wondering what was in the 14 that were left out — the ones Jude quoted, the ones found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ones the early church never stopped reading.

Maybe you come back later. But by then, this print run may be gone — and the $49 price with it. The next run is weeks away, at a higher price.

Choice #2: Hold the complete Word in your hands.

For less than the cost of dinner for two, you read what the apostles read. You see why Enoch was quoted by the brother of Jesus. You hand your children a Bible bound to outlive you — the most complete Scripture on Earth, finally in English.

And if it doesn't move you the way it's moved thousands of others, you send it back and pay nothing.

One choice costs you nothing but a few more years of wondering. The other costs $49 — fully refundable — and could change the way you read Scripture for the rest of your life.

The 22 books have been waiting a very long time.

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Taylor Clarke, Christian advocate and spokesperson for the Ethiopian Bible

P.S. — The first time I held the complete 88-book Ethiopian Bible in English, I understood why so many people feel something is missing from the version they grew up with. Enoch. Jubilees. Giants. The Apocrypha. All of it, finally in one place. Once you read it, you can't unread it.

P.P.S. — Remember, you're covered by our full 30-day "Read It or Return It" guarantee. Read it cover to cover. If it doesn't move you, send it back for a full refund. The risk is entirely on us.

P.P.P.S. — This is a limited print run at the $49 launch price (50% off our permanent price). When this batch sells through, the price goes back up. Order 2 or more and you'll also get free shipping and a handmade Ethiopian leather bookmark with every Bible.

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