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because your voice has surely been heard before the Most High; for the Mighty One has seen your uprightness and has also observed the purity which you have maintained from your youth.
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Therefore he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you: `Believe and do not be afraid!
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Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times, lest you be hasty concerning the last times.'"
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Now after this I wept again and fasted seven days as before, in order to complete the three weeks as I had been told.
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And on the eighth night my heart was troubled within me again, and I began to speak in the presence of the Most High.
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For my spirit was greatly aroused, and my soul was in distress.
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I said, "O Lord, thou didst speak at the beginning of creation, and didst say on the first day, `Let heaven and earth be made,' and thy word accomplished the work.
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And then the Spirit was hovering, and darkness and silence embraced everything; the sound of man's voice was not yet there.
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Then thou didst command that a ray of light be brought forth from thy treasuries, so that thy works might then appear.
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"Again, on the second day, thou didst create the spirit of the firmament, and didst command him to divide and separate the waters, that one part might move upward and the other part remain beneath.
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"On the third day thou didst command the waters to be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth; six parts thou didst dry up and keep so that some of them might be planted and cultivated and be of service before thee.