Amharic is the lingua franca of Ethiopia, and the primary language spoken by the Amharas. This Bible is commonly used among people in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. This tradition has the largest biblical canon in Christianity, including works like Jubilees, Enoch, the books of Meqabyan, and other works unique to this canon, resulting in an Old Testament with 46 books and a New Testament with 35 books. This Bible, however, does not contain all of the books of the Ethiopic canon.