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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; then you will not act hastily in the last times.' "
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Now after this I wept again and fasted seven days in the same way as before, in order to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me.
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Then 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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My spirit was greatly aroused, and my soul was in distress.
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I said, "O Lord, you spoke at the beginning of creation, and said on the first day, "Let heaven and earth be made,' and your word accomplished the work.
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Then the spirit was blowing, and darkness and silence embraced everything; the sound of human voices was not yet there.
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Then you commanded a ray of light to be brought out from your store-chambers, so that your works could be seen.
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"Again, on the second day, you created the spirit of the firmament, and commanded it to divide and separate the waters, so that one part might move upward and the other part remain beneath.
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"On the third day you commanded the waters to be gathered together in a seventh part of the earth; six parts you dried up and kept so that some of them might be planted and cultivated and be of service before you.
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For your word went forth, and at once the work was done.