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and you shall come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you are about to write is finished.
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And when you have finished, some things you shall make public, and some you shall deliver in secret to the wise; tomorrow at this hour you shall begin to write."
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Then I went as he commanded me, and I gathered all the people together, and said,
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"Hear these words, O Israel.
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At first our ancestors lived as aliens in Egypt, and they were liberated from there
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and received the law of life, which they did not keep, which you also have transgressed after them.
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Then land was given to you for a possession in the land of Zion; but you and your ancestors committed iniquity and did not keep the ways that the Most High commanded you.
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And since he is a righteous judge, in due time he took from you what he had given.
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And now you are here, and your people are farther in the interior.
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If you, then, will rule over your minds and discipline your hearts, you shall be kept alive, and after death you shall obtain mercy.
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For after death the judgment will come, when we shall live again; and then the names of the righteous shall become manifest, and the deeds of the ungodly shall be disclosed.