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And I said, "Eternal, Mighty One!
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Why did you establish it to be so and to 45.
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And I said, 0 Eternal Mighty One!
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Why have you established that it should be so, and then proclaimed the knowledge thereof?" And He said to me, "Hear Abraham, and understand what I say to you, and answer my question.
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Why did your father Terah not listen to your voice, and why did he not cease from his idolatrous practices, together with his whole house?" 2. call on the testimonies of this one?" And he said to me, "Hear, Abraham, and 3. understand what I will explain to you, and answer whatever I ask you.
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Why did your father Terah not obey your voice and abandon the demonic worship of idols 4. until he perished, and all his house with him?" And I said, "Eternal Mighty One, surely because it did not please him to obey me, nor did I follow his works." 46.
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And I said, "0 Eternal One!
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It was entirely because he did not choose to listen to my voice, and likewise I did not choose to listen to his counsel." And He said to me, "The will of your father is within him, and your own will is within you, and so also the counsel of my own will is within me, and is ready for the coming days, even before you have any knowledge of them or can see with your eyes what is the future of them.
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Now look again into the picture, and see how it will be with your seed." 5.
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And he said to me. "Hear.
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As the counsel of your father is in him, as 6. your counsel is in you, so also the counsel of my will is ready.
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In days to come you will not know them in advance, nor the future (men) you will see with your own eyes that they are of your seed.
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Look at the picture!