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1.(2.) Then a voice came speaking to me twice: "Abraham, Abraham!" And I said, 1.
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Then a voice came to me speaking twice, "Abraham!
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Abraham!" and I said, "Here I am!" And He said, "Behold it is I, fear not for I am with you, for I AM before the ages, even the Mighty God who created the first light of the world.
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I am your shield and your helper." 3. "Here I am." And he said, "Behold, it is I, Fear not, for I an Before-the-World 4. and Mighty, the God who created previously, before the light of the age.
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I am 5. the protector for you and I am your helper.
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Go, get me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a pigeon, 2. "Go, take me a young heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtledove and a pigeon, and bring me a pure sacrifice.
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And in this sacrifice I will lay before you the ages to come, and make known to you what is reserved, and you shall see great things which you have not hitherto seen: 6. and make me a pure sacrifice.
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And in this sacrifice I will place the ages.
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I will announce to you guarded things and you will see great things which you have not 7. seen, because you desired to search for me, and I called you my beloved.
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But for forty days abstain from every kind of food cooked by fire, and from drinking 3. because you have loved to search me out, and I have named you 'my friend.' But abstain from every form of food that comes forth out of the fire, and from the drinking of wine, and from anointing yourself with oil, for forty days, and then set forth for me the sacrifice which I have commanded you, in a place which I will show you on a high mountain, and there I will show you the ages which have been created and established by my word, and I will make known to you what shall come to pass in them on those who have done evil and righteousness in the generations of men." 8. of wine and from anointing (yourself) with oil.
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And then you shall set out for me the sacrifice, which I have commanded you, in the place which I will show you 9. on a high mountain.
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And there I will show you the things which were made by 10. the ages and by my word, and affirmed, created, and renewed.
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And I will announce to you in them what will come upon those who have done evil and just things in the race of man."