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However, Avraham said, `Son, remember that when you were alive, you got the good things while he got the bad; but now he gets his conso lation here, while you are the one in agony.
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Yet that isn't all: between you and us a deep rift has been established, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
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"He answered, `Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father's house,
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where I have five brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared having to come to this place of torment too.'
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But Avraham said, `They have Moshe and the Prophets; they should listen to them.'
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However, he said, `No, father Avraham, they need more. If someone from the dead goes to them, they'll repent!'
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But he replied, `If they won't listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won't be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!'"