Today is the 17th day of December.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

Welcome back around the global campfire.

I am Brian and with a grateful heart.

I'm here today.

I hope you are too.

Very grateful for this place that we can come to every day and be together.

And know it's a safe place.

It's a safe space for us.

We can just show up.

And here we are for the next step forward in the scriptures and the next step forward

leads us back to where we left off obviously which happens to be at the at the threshold of a brand

new book which is how the how the how the Bible kind of ends.

We're just moving through a lot of territory quickly.

So the seventh book of the minor prophets,

we're going to read the whole thing today,

the book of Neum.

And there's practically nothing known about Neum's life

other than his name has a meaning, comforts,

and that he was from a place called Elkosh.

And where Elkosh may be,

whether it's a town or a village,

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