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Welcome back you guys to the third episode in our series on the canon of scripture and how the Bible came to be.

We are currently studying the Old Testament and the process of how the books that we have today came to be in the Bible.

And so if you missed last week's episode, I would encourage you to go back and listen to that because it really sets up the framework for understanding what we're talking about in this episode.

Each of these episodes will build on the one before.

And so if you haven't listened to that one,

head back, listen to the canon of Pentatuke or Torah

so that you have that foundation.

Now before we jump into the canonicity of the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible,

I want to do a little review about these books in general about Old Testament

canon so that we have that foundation in place. So as we talked about in the

last episode the original Hebrew Bible, or the one rather that Jesus would have been working from and speaking and teaching out of, looked different than our Hebrew Bible.

So when we look at our Bible,

if we were to open it up,

I have mine right here

because we're gonna be hopping around through it a little bit today.

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