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Father please for one more hour here I pray for your help. We need to make progress in going deep with your word and so I ask for your assistance again. In Jesus' name, amen.

Which books make in the Bible?

That is, which books are in the Apocryphra, which include books like these, Estrus, 1st and second, Tobit,

Judith, and so on. These are the books that you would find in the Apocrypha. Now the question would be one question, why don't we have those

in our Bible? Most of those come from the period between the testaments,

inter-testimental period, now called Second Temple Judaism.

The belief. The the rabbinical literature, this is from the Talmud, after the latter prophets

Hagai, Zakiraya, and Malachai had died, the Holy Spirit departed from Israel, but they still availed themselves of the

Batcole daughter of the voice. So the typical Jewish view in Jesus Day was that after the minor

prophets, there wasn't any inspiration of scripture.

Now the question is, is that what Jesus thought?

Is that what we should think or not.

Here's the Jewish canon that I'm going to argue for because that's what's in our Bible and I think we can know why.

The Hebrew canon was traditionally 24 books, which include all of our 39 and no more, and these

are divided into three sections.

The reason it goes from 29 to 24 is because they combine some that we separate.

I'll show you what they are in a minute.

There are three sections in the Old Testament, Jewish Hebrew canon, Torah, Naveim, and Kattuveim.

That's the Hebrew word for law, prophets, writings.

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