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Then answered I before Thee and said,
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"Behold, Lord, I will go, as Thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people who are present; but those who shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? Thus the world is set in darkness, and those who dwell therein are without light.
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For Thy law is burned; therefore no man knoweth the things that are done by Thee, or the works that shall begin.
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But if I have found grace before Thee, send the Holy Spirit into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in Thy law, that men may find Thy path, and that those who will live in the latter days may live."Œ
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And He answered me, saying, "Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them that they seek thee not for forty days.
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But look thou prepare thee many boxwood tablets to write on, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five who are ready to write swiftly.
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And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write.
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And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and some things shalt thou show secretly to the wise. Tomorrow this hour shalt thou begin to write."
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Then went I forth, as He commanded, and gathered all the people together and said,
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"Hear these words, O Israel.
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Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered,