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Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Bible, in contrast to the "protocanonical books" which are contained in the Hebrew Bible. The scriptural texts described as deuterocanonical only exist in the Greek translation known as the Septuagint. This distinction had previously contributed to debate in the early church about whether they should be read in the churches and thus be classified as canonical texts.