Question about the NAB

Marie333 said:

Why does the NAB bible include Malachi 3:19-23 but other translations don't?

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The New American Bible, NAB, is a Catholic Bible which uses the Septuagint version of the Old Testament,
which includes 7 books not in the Hebrew Bible, which protestant Bible's use.

During the first century Christian Church, the Septuagint version was used for Greek Speaking Jews.
80% of the quotations in the New Testament to the Old Testament, can be found in the Septuagint.

Judaism for a long time claimed that the Septuagint translation was not used. The discovery ot
the Dead Sea Scrolls changed that as the Septuagint and Hebrew versions of the Old Testament
were found.

Marie333 said:

Why does the NAB bible include Malachi 3:19-23 but other translations don't?

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The passage that appears in the NAB as Malachi 3:19-23 appears as Malachi 4 in a number of other translations. So, it's not a matter of omitting those verses; rather, it's a matter of which chapter/verse numbers attach to them.

The notes in my study Bibles didn't address the differences in chapter numberings, so for the moment I'm stuck here. Presumably, it goes back to the choices communities made when they first started assigning chapter numbers to the text, but I don't know more than that.

The English NET Bible explains that the Hebrew manuscript of Malachi
does not have a chapter 4.

So, translations that follow this chapter labelling, put what is in chapter 4 in
some translations, at the end of chapter 3.