You're listening to the Bible for Normal People,

the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

Serious talk about the sacred book.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

Well, everybody, welcome to another solo podcast.

Repeat once again attempts to be coherent all by himself

without Jared's adult supervision.

I do the best that I can.

And today's topic is one that's really, really close to my heart.

It's a book that I've come to really just sort of sit under.

Especially in my adult years for a whole lot of reasons.

And that's the book of Proverbs.

So here are seven things you need to know about how the book of Proverbs works.

Seven things.

That's a biblical number.

So you know that I'm right.

And how the book of Proverbs works.

Well, let's just, you know, hold on.

And I'll, we'll walk through these things.

And hopefully it'll give you a big picture of view of how this book works.

As I said, and what it's maybe designed to do,

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