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De mensuribus et ponderibus (ap. Joannem Damascenum) (excerptum Graecum 8)

Now, one must know that there are twenty-two books of the Old Testament, according to the letters of the Hebrew language. For they have twenty-two letters, of which five are doubled, so that they become twenty-seven; for doubled is the Kaph and the Mem and the Nun and the Phi and the Sadi. Therefore the books in this way are numbered as twenty-two, but are found to be twenty-seven because five of them are doubled. For Ruth is joined to Judges and is numbered among the Hebrews as one book; the first and second of Kingdoms, one book; the third and fourth of Kingdoms, one book; the first and second of Paralipomenon, one book; the first and second of Ezra, one book. Thus therefore the books are arranged in four Pentateuchs, and two others remain, so that the canonical books are as follows: five of the Law: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; this is the first Pentateuch, which is also the Legislation. Then another Pentateuch, the so-called Grapheia, or by some Hagiographa, which are as follows: Joshua son of Nave, Judges with Ruth, first of Kingdoms with the second, one book, third of Kingdoms with the fourth, one book, and the two of Paralipomenon, one book; this is the second Pentateuch. The third Pentateuch, the poetic books: of Job, the Psalter, Proverbs of Solomon, Ecclesiastes of the same, the Song of Songs of the same. The fourth Pentateuch, the prophetic: the twelve prophets, one book, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel. Then of Ezra, the two joined into one book, and Esther. - But the Panaretos, that is, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the Wisdom of Jesus, which the father of Sirach indeed set forth in Hebrew, but his grandson Jesus, the son of Sirach, translated into Greek, are indeed virtuous and beautiful, but are not numbered nor were they laid up in the Ark.

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De mensuribus et ponderibus (ap. Joannem Damascenum) (excerptum Graecum 8)

Ἰστέον δέ, ὡς εἴκοσι δύο βίβλοι εἰσὶ τῆς παλαιᾶς διαθήκης κατὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα

τῆς Ἑβραΐδος φωνῆς. Εἴκοσι δύο γὰρ στοιχεῖα ἔχουσιν, ἐξ ὧν πέντε διπλοῦνται, ὡς γίνεσθαι αὐτὰ εἴκοσι ἑπτά· διπλοῦν γάρ ἐστι τὸ Χὰφ καὶ τὸ Μὲμ καὶ τὸ Νοῦν καὶ τὸ Φὶ καὶ τὸ Σαδί. ∆ιὸ καὶ αἱ βίβλοι κατὰ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον εἴκοσι δύο μὲν ἀριθμοῦνται, εἴκοσι ἑπτὰ δὲ εὑρίσκονται διὰ τὸ πέντε ἐξ αὐτῶν διπλοῦσθαι. Συνάπτεται γὰρ ἡ Ῥοὺθ τοῖς Κριταῖς καὶ ἀριθμεῖται παρ' Ἑβραίοις μία βίβλος· ἡ πρώτη καὶ δευτέρα τῶν Βασιλειῶν μία βίβλος· ἡ τρίτη καὶ ἡ τετάρτη τῶν Βασιλειῶν μία βίβλος· ἡ πρώτη καὶ ἡ δευτέρα τῶν Παραλειπομένων μία βίβλος· ἡ πρώτη καὶ ἡ δευτέρα τοῦ Ἔσδρα μία βίβλος. Οὕτως οὖν σύγκεινται αἱ βίβλοι ἐν πεντατεύχοις τέτρασι, καὶ μένουσιν ἄλλαι δύο, ὡς εἶναι τὰς ἐνδιαθέτους βίβλους οὕτως· πέντε νομικάς· Γένεσιν, Ἔξοδον, Λευιτικόν, Ἀριθμούς, ∆ευτερονόμιον· αὕτη πρώτη πεντάτευχος, ἣ καὶ νομοθεσία. Εἶτα ἄλλη πεντάτευχος, τὰ καλούμενα Γραφεῖα, παρά τισι δὲ Ἁγιόγραφα, ἅτινά ἐστιν οὕτως· Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ, Κριταὶ μετὰ τῆς Ῥούθ, Βασιλειῶν πρώτη μετὰ τῆς δευτέρας, βίβλος μία, Βασιλειῶν τρίτη μετὰ τῆς τετάρτης, βίβλος μία, καὶ αἱ δύο τῶν Παραλειπομένων, βίβλος μία· αὕτη δευτέρα πεντάτευχος. Τρίτη πεντάτευχος αἱ στιχήρεις βίβλοι· τοῦ Ἰώβ, τὸ ψαλτήριον, Παροιμίαι Σολομῶντος, Ἐκκλησιαστὴς τοῦ αὐτοῦ, τὰ Ἄισματα τῶν ᾀσμάτων τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Τετάρτη πεντάτευχος, ἡ προφητική· τὸ δωδεκαπρόφητον, βίβλος μία, Ἡσαΐας, Ἰερεμίας Ἰεζεκιήλ, ∆ανιήλ. Εἶτα τοῦ Ἔσδρα, αἱ δύο εἰς μίαν συναπτόμεναι βίβλον, καὶ ἡ Ἐσθήρ. - ̔Η δὲ Πανάρετος, τουτέστιν ἡ Σοφία τοῦ Σολομῶντος, καὶ ἡ Σοφία τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ἣν ὁ πατὴρ μὲν τοῦ Σιρὰχ ἐξέθετο Ἑβραϊστί, Ἑλληνιστὶ δὲ ἡρμήνευσεν ὁ τούτου μὲν ἔγγονος Ἰησοῦς, τοῦ δὲ Σιρὰχ υἱός, ἐνάρετοι μὲν καὶ καλαί, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀριθμοῦνται οὐδὲ ἔκειντο ἐν τῇ κιβωτῷ.