Book Of The Order of Ancients

with The Writings of Abraham

 Book Of The Order of Ancients with
The Writings of Abraham

© 2018 Zen Garcia

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 Introduction:

As a seeker of truth and a student of the extra-biblical

materials, I have spent the majority of my last 20+ years
attempting to understand the biblical narrative better as
presented by the foundational revelations as given within
the King James Version of the Holy Bible. Those of
you that are familiar with my work know that one of the
more intriguing aspects of it, is I believe my Lord God-
given ability to recognize and expound upon the
underlying truths. Which are interwoven into not just the
canonical and extra-biblical sources but also to unite the
various themes which I write extensively upon together
with the ancient mysteries, occult knowledge, oral
traditions, and archeo-astronomical evidence daily
revealed to modern humanity.

On February 28, 2015, Dave, one of my listeners,

contacted me through www.FallenAngels.TV, our
website to ask me if I was aware of The Writings of
Abraham. Not having ever heard of them, he shared this
quote with me, " Eight years later Noah begat a son of
his wife Naamah, who was of the seed of Cain, and he

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called his name Ham, for he said, Through him will the
curse be preserved in the land."

He knew because of the publication of my fourth book

Lucifer - The Father Of Cain that I had a keen interest
in the enmity between the seed of the woman and the
seed of the serpent as explicated in Genesis 3:15. I had
never heard about or had a chance to read The Writings
of Abraham. But upon doing so discovered that it had a
great deal of contextual material which elaborated upon
such questions as to how the seed of Cain survived the
flood of Noah’s day and why the birthright, blessings of
Abraham were granted to Isaac instead of Ishmael and
Jacob instead of Esau.

I was only able to locate this text in full at one website

earth-history.com which as of this moment is no longer
operational. Many months ago, I tried contacting the
webmaster of that site to ask him about the source of this
document and how and where he had come across its
contents but never received a reply. The only thing that I
know about it is that it is claimed to have been discovered
as a papyrus scroll in Egypt in 1831.

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The reason that I have decided to now publish this
manuscript in full is 1) to make them available to those
interested in my reference to them in Chapter 19 -How
The Seed Of Cain Survived The Flood. Which I just
published two days ago in my latest book, The Great
Contest II: Enmity Between The Seed Lines. 2) To
preserve it as a source of intrigue for biblical scholars and
3) to make it more widely available to those that may be
interested in the themes presented within it as a body of
work.

Know that in releasing this book that I am in no way

affirming its authenticity but that I only want to ensure
that they remain available for study by future generations.
I will say however that having read and studied the text for
many years now, I feel confident that its contents were
passed down from an inspired source and that a forger
would not have had the kind of intimate understandings
which had been compiled and conveyed within them.
Besides forgers usually only put forth such effort as a
way to profit off of their efforts. I feel the extensive
knowledge of the differentiation between the seed of the
woman and the seed of the serpent is a concept which
little known about is largely opposed by the mainstream

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majority. As such it seems implausible to me that
someone would have been able to forge this information
in 1831 when it is not even recognized by most as biblical
teaching in this day and age. And so it is for these
reasons that I decided to republish and make them a part
of the public domain and in that way ensure their content
will not forever be lost.

Zen Garcia, 3/5/2017

2019 Revision: The Book of the Order of the Ancients

Because many of you have asked me to make available in

print for public consideration, The Book of the Order
of Ancients said to have been written by Elijah the
prophet, and which has become increasingly difficult to
obtain for reading. I decided to amend the publication of
The Writings of Abraham as it in same manner is a text
which has largely become lost even to Internet access.
Likewise because The Writings of Abraham do include
and make mention of within them, a priestly tradition which
begun with Adam in paradise was passed down to
Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Levi, and
so on and so forth.

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This tradition is regarded in Scripture as being the
Melchizedek Order and referenced within this text as the
Church of the Firstborn. According to tradition, Adam
was ordained into this order as prophet, priest, and king
while appointed by YHVH dwelling in paradise before
being tempted by the devil, he and Eve are exiled from
access to the heavenly temple. One can find great
mention of this scenario in a little-known manuscript called
the Kitab-Al-Magalli:

On the seventh day God had completed all creation,

and He called it Sabbath. God had created Adam in
the third hour of Friday the sixth day. Iblis had laid
claim to Godhead which had entered him in the
second hour of that day, and God had hurled him
down from heaven to earth. Before God the Lord
created Adam, rest fell upon all the powers; and God
said, ‘Come, let us create a Man in our likeness and
form and image.’ When the Angels heard this saying
from the Lord they became frightened and much
terrified, and they said to one another, ‘What is this
great wonder which we hear, and how is it possible
that the form of our God and Creator can appear to
us?’ Then all the Angels looked towards the right
hand of the Lord, which was stretched out above all
creation, and all of it was in His right hand. Then
they looked towards the right hand of the Lord, and it
took from all the earth a little handful of dust, and
from all the waters a drop of water, and from the air a
soul and a spirit, and from fire the force of heat, and
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 it became in the grasp of the Lord portions of the four
elements, heat and cold, moisture and drought. Verily
God, the glorious and strong, created Adam from
these four weak elements, which have no power, that
all creatures created from them might hear and obey
him: dust, that man might obey him; water, that all
that is born of it and in it might obey him; air, that it
might be possible for him to breathe it and to feel its
breezes, and that its birds might obey him; and fire,
that the heat of forces created from it should be a
powerful helper to his sense. The reason why God,
may His holy names be sanctified! created Adam
with His holy hand in His form and image was that
he should receive wisdom and speech and animal
motion, and for the knowledge concerning things.
When the glorious and illustrious Angels saw one
like Him in Adam, they were affrighted. The
wondrous glory upon his face terrified them, his form
appeared shining with divine light greater than the
light of the sun, and his body was bright and brilliant
like the well-known stars in the crystal. When the
figure of Adam drew itself up, he leapt standing; he
was in the centre of the earth, he stretched out his
right hand and his left hand and put his feet in order
upon Golgotha, which is the place where was put the
wood (cross) of our Saviour Jesus the Christ. He was
dressed with a royal robe, he wore upon his head a
diadem of glory and praise and honour and
dignity, he was crowned with a royal crown, and
there he was made king and priest and prophet.
God set him upon a throne of honour, and gathered to
what was there all the animals and beasts and birds
and all that God had created, and made them stand
before Adam. They bent their heads and did
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obeisance to him, and he called each of them by its
name. He made all the creatures obey him and they
responded to his command. The Angels and the
Powers heard the voice of God, may He be glorified
and exalted! saying to Adam, ‘O Adam, I have made
thee king and priest and prophet and ruler and chief
and governor over all creatures that are made. All
creation shall obey thee and follow thy voice. Under
thy grasp they shall be. To thee alone I have given
this power; I have placed thee in possession of all
that I have created.’ When the Angels heard this
saying from the Lord they redoubled honour and
respect to Adam. When the Devil saw the gift that
was given to Adam from the Lord, he envied him
from that day and the schismatic from God set his
mind in cunning towards him to seduce him by his
boldness and his curse; and when he denied the grace
of the Lord towards him, he became shameless and
warlike. God, may His names be sanctified! deprived
the Devil of the robe of praise and dignity and called
his name Devil, he is a rebel against God, and Satan,
because he opposes himself to the ways of the Lord,
and Iblis, because He took his dignity from him.
While Adam was listening to the speech of his Lord
to him, and standing upon the place of Golgotha, all
the creatures being gathered together that they might
hear the conversation of God with him, lo! a cloud of
light carried him and went with him to Paradise
and the choirs of Angels sang before him, the
cherubim among them blessing and the seraphim
crying ‘Holy!’ until Adam came into Paradise. He
entered it at the third hour on Friday, and the Lord, to
Him be praise! gave him the commandment, and
warned him against disobedience to it. Then the
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 Lord, to Him be praise! threw upon Adam a form of
sleep, and he slept a sweet sleep in Paradise. And
God took a rib from his left side, and from it He
created Eve. When he awoke and saw Eve he
rejoiced over her and lived with her, and she was in
the pleasant garden of Paradise. God clothed them
with glory and splendour. They outvied one
another in the glory with which they were clothed,
and the Lord crowned them for marriage, the
Angels congratulated them, and there was joy there
such as never has been the like and never will be till
the day in which the people at the right hand shall
hear the glorious voice from the Lord. Adam and Eve
remained in Paradise for three hours. The site of
Paradise was high up in the air, its ground was
heavenly, raised above all mountains and hills, that
were thirty spans high, that is fifteen cubits,
according to the cubit of the Holy Ghost.
This Paradise stretches round from the east by a
wall from the hollow to the southern place of
darkness where the cursed Prince was thrown, it
is the place of sorrows. Eden is a fountain of God
lying eastwards, to a height of eight degrees of the
rising of the sun, and this is the mercy of God on
which the children of men put their trust, that
they shall have a Saviour from thence, because
God, may He be exalted and glorified! knew in His
foreknowledge what the Devil would do to Adam.
Adam lived in the treasury of His mercy, as David
the prophet said, ‘Thou hast been a fortress to us, O
Lord, throughout all ages; cause us to live in Thy
mercy.’ The blessed David said also in his prayer
about the salvation of men, ‘Remember, Lord’ (the
tree was the Cross which was planted in the middle
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of the earth), ‘Thy grace which thou hast wrought
from all eternity’; I mean by this the mercy which
God loved to extend to all men and to our weak race.
Eden is the Church of God, and the Paradise in
which is the altar of rest, and the length of life
which God has prepared for all the saints. Because
Adam was king, priest and prophet, God caused
him to enter Paradise that he might minister in
Eden, the Church of God the holy Lord, as Moses
the holy Prophet testifies about this, saying, ‘That
thou shouldest minister and declare by noble and
glorious service, and keep the commandment by
which Adam and Eve were brought into the
Church of God.’ Then God planted the tree of life in
the middle of Paradise and it was the form of the
cross which was stretched upon it, and it was the tree
of life and salvation. Satan remained in his envy to
Adam and Eve for the favour which the Lord shewed
them, and he contrived to enter into the serpent,
which was the most beautiful of the animals, and its
nature was above the nature of the camel. He carried
it till he went with it in the air to the lower parts of
Paradise. The reason for Iblis the cursed hiding
himself in the serpent was his ugliness, for when he
was deprived of his honour he got into the acme of
ugliness, till none of the creatures could have borne
the sight of him uncovered, and if Eve had seen him
unveiled in the serpent, when she spoke to him, she
would have run away from him, and neither cunning
nor deceit would have availed him with her; but he
contrived to hide himself in the serpent, the cunning
creature, to teach the birds with round tongues the
speech of men in Greek and such like. He would
bring a broad mirror with much light sending out
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 rays; he would put it between himself and a bird, and
speak what he wished that the bird should know, and
when the bird heard this speech, it would glance
around and look in the mirror, and see the form of a
bird like itself and rejoice at it, and not doubting that
it was a bird of its species that was speaking to it
would listen to it and attend to its language. And it
would comprehend it in a moment and talk to it. But
the cursed Devil, when he entered the serpent, came
towards Eve, when she was alone in Paradise away
from Adam, and called her by her name. She turned
to him, and looked at her likeness behind a veil, and
he talked to her, and she talked to him, and he led her
astray by his speech, for woman’s nature is weak, and
she trusts in every word, and he lectured her about
the forbidden tree in obedience to her desire, and
described to her the goodness of its taste, and that
when she should eat of it she should become a god;
and she longed for what the cursed one made her
long for, and she would not hear from the Lord, may
His names be sanctified! what He had commanded
Adam about the tree. She hastened eagerly towards it,
and seized some of its fruit in her mouth. Then she
called Adam, and he hastened to her, and she gave
him of the fruit, telling him that if he ate of it he
would become a god. He listened to her advice
because he should become a god as she said. When
he and she ate the deadly fruit they were bereft of
their glory, and their splendour was taken from
them, and they were stripped of the light with
which they had been clothed. When they looked at
themselves, they were naked of the grace which
they had worn, and their shame was manifest to
them; they made to themselves aprons of fig-leaves,
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and covered themselves therewith, and they were in
great sadness for three hours. They did not manage to
continue in the grace and the power with which the
Lord had endued them before their rebellion for three
hours, till it was taken from them and they were made
to slip and fall down at the time of sunset on that day,
and they received the sentence of God in punishment.
After the clothing of fig-leaves they put on
clothing of skins, and that is the skin of which our
bodies are made, being of the family of man, and
it is a clothing of pain. The entrance of Adam into
Paradise was at the third hour. He and Eve passed
through great power in three hours, they were naked
for three hours, and in the ninth hour they went out
from Paradise, unwillingly, with much grief, great
weeping, mourning and sighing. They slept towards
the East of it near the altar. When they awoke from
their sleep, God spoke to Adam and comforted him,
saying to him, blessed be His names! ‘O Adam! do
not grieve, for I will restore thee to thine inheritance,
out of which thy rebellion has brought thee. Know
that because of my love to thee I have cursed the
earth, and I will not have pity upon it, on account of
thy sin. I have cursed also the serpent by whom thou
hast been led astray, and I have made its feet go
within its belly. I have made dust its food. I have not
cursed thee. I have decreed against Eve that she shall
be at thy service. Know certainly that when thou hast
accomplished the time that I have decreed for thee to
dwell outside, in the accursed land, for thy
transgression of my commandment, I will send my
dear Son; He will come down to the earth, He will be
clothed with a body from a Virgin of thy race, named
Mary. I will purify her and choose her, and bring her
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 into power generation after generation until the time
that the Son comes down from Heaven. In that time
shall be the beginning of thy salvation and restoration
to thine inheritance. – Kitab Al-Magalli

Residing above the North Star Polaris, the mount of the

congregation, the heavenly temple and throne room of the
most high God is cited by Lucifer, as located in the sides
of the north, above the stars and clouds of God which lie
beneath the vaulted Dome of the earth. It is here in the
paradise and garden of YHVH, that the tree of life
exists under the supernatural Cherubic protection of the
flaming angels of the sword guard. Also referenced as the
home of the righteous, it is in this place that the city of
God, New Jerusalem is currently located. It is this locale
which John the revelator sees descending out of the
heavens at the end of days when the firmament rolling
back as a scroll, declines to the earth as place of
residence for the elect during the millennial age.

The Book of the Order of the Ancients now included

here with the Writings of Abraham, describes how
believers in Yahushua did join together in community
during the early establishment of the ecclesia, to live with
and amongst each other. The core tenets of the
Christian faith by which even the apostles lived, can be
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found rooted within these teachings. The order of
Melchizedek which Enoch, Noah, and Shem were
ordained as cited within The Writings of Abraham, are
extended to Abram under the tutelage of both Shem
and Noah. Abram at the age of 13 is led by an angel of
the Lord to Shem’s tent. He remains there for 26 years
and during that time, is mentored into the responsibilities,
faith, traditions, and ways of being a high priest within this
order.

Thus, to make modern scholars aware of and give the

public access to these ancient teachings, I decided to
release in this new rendition the inclusion of the Book of
the Order of the Ancients in attachment to The
Writings of Abraham since it is within this manuscript that
allusion to this ancient order is even mentioned as
existent.

Zen Garcia 10/2/19 Yom Teruah

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 - Gustav Dore

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 The Church of the Firstborn
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which
are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect, [24] And to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than that of Abel. - Hebrews 12:23

CHAPTER 97

AND when I had done this, Melchizedek again lifted up his

voice and blessed me saying, Blessed art thou, Abraham, for
the Most High God shall visit thee and shall bestow upon
thee riches and honor and lands for an everlasting possession
because thou hast been true and faithful to the covenants
which thou hast entered before Him.

2. Wherefore, thou shalt continue to increase, worlds without

end, and the glory of the Lord shall never depart from thee.
The blessings of thy Fathers shall rest upon thee and thou
shalt stand at the head and in thee and in thy seed after thee,
those who shall bear thy priesthood, shall all the nations of
the earth be blessed.

CHAPTER 98

THEREWITH, I departed from Melchizedek, rejoicing in his

blessing, for he was a man of faith who wrought
righteousness and when a child he feared God and by his faith
he stopped the mouths of lions and quenched the violence of
fire when those of the evil combination sought to destroy him
from off the face of the earth.

2. Therefore, having been approved of God, he was ordained

a high priest after the order of the covenant which God made
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with Enoch which is after the order of the Firstborn, even our
Father Adam.

3. For this holy order came not by man nor the will of man,
neither by father nor mother, neither by beginning of days nor
end of years, but of God.

4. For it was established in the beginning of the earth by the

Ancients of days, wherefore it is called the Order of the
Ancients, and it was delivered unto men from the beginning
by the calling of God's own voice according to His own will
through the voice of His Priesthood, unto as many as believed
on His name and were faithful until they had obtained.

CHAPTER 99

BEHOLD, these could transcend the veil, according to the

will of God, and commune with the General Assembly and
Church of the Firstborn in heaven and many were caught up
to be with them.

2. For God had sworn unto Enoch and unto his seed with an
oath by Himself the every one being ordained after this order
and calling should have power by faith to break mountains, to
divide the seas, to dry up waters, to turn them out of their
course, to put at defiance the armies of nations, to divide the
earth, to break every band, to stand in the presence of God, to
do all things according to His will according to His command,
subdue principalities and powers, and this by the will of the
Son of the Only Begotten of the Father which was from
before the foundation of the world.

3. And men having this faith and coming up unto this order
of God could be translated and taken up into heaven.

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CHAPTER 100

NOW Melchizedek was a priest after this order which is the

Holy Order of God; therefore he obtained peace in Shalom
and was called the prince of peace.

2. And his people wrought righteousness and obtained heaven

for they sought for the city of Enoch which God had before
taken, separating it from the earth, having reserved it unto the
latter days or the end of the world.

3. For God hath said and sworn with an oath that the heavens
and the earth should come together again and the sons of
God be tried even by fire.

4. And thus Melchizedek, having established righteousness,

was called the king of heaven by his people or, in other words,
the king of peace.

5. And they communed with those in the city of Enoch and in

the city of Peleg and had access to them and were blessed all
their days. - The Writings of Abraham 97:1-100:5

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 - Gustav Dore

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 THE BOOK OF THE
ORDER
Of Elijah the Prophet

CHAPTER 1
1. The record of Elijah the Tishbite which he wrote for
his disciple Elisha whom he called from his field in
Abelmaholah unto the holy order of God.
2. Behold, I, Elijah, write this record with mine own hand
and no man shall see it until I have ascended into heaven.
3. Then shall mine authority and the keys of my
Priesthood which is the Priesthood of the Fathers pass to my
son Elisha by right of lineage and obedience.
4. This Priesthood came down to me from the Fathers by
lineage, for I am a descendant of Joshua the son of Nun who
was descended from Ephraim the son of Joseph through
whom the rights of the Firstborn descended in Israel.
5. These rights I received when I was but a lad from my
Father before he was martyred for the testimony of Jehovah
and, according to the word of the Lord, I have appointed
Elisha, who is mine adopted son, to be my successor in
bearing off this work.
6. Nevertheless, not all of my rights shall rest upon him,
for the Lord hath said, behold, my servant Elijah shall not die
but shall bear with him the keys of his ministry unto the
heavenly city until the last days when I shall send him unto
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one of his seed whom I shall raise up to bear the fullness of
this ministry again among the sons of men.
7. But he shall leave with Elisha those keys necessary to
continue his work in organizing the Schools of the Prophets
and the Order of Enoch that the sons of the prophets may
continue to live after the holy order of God.
CHAPTER 2
1. Therefore, my son Elisha, I leave for thee this Book of
the Order by which thou mayest govern the Order of Enoch,
for I have organized and governed this Order according to
the revelations of the Lord to me and under the direction of
his Holy Spirit I give thee these instructions.
2. Everyone who desireth to enter the Order of Enoch
must be one who loveth the Lord his God with all his heart,
might, mind and strength and one who loveth his fellowman
as himself, according to the word of the Lord through Moses.
3. He must covenant to live the law of consecration and
to hold all things common with his brethren according to the
pattern set by our First Parents, for when they came forth
from the garden they divided not up the land but held it in
common until their posterity through wickedness began to lay
claim to it for themselves.
4. Behold, this private ownership of the property came to
pass through the teachings of that evil combination which was
organized by Cain that men might get gain for themselves
because the love of God and man is not in them.
5. He who entereth the Order must be one who is
dedicated to seeing the face of God and receiving from him
the promise of eternal lives.

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 6. He must keep the commandments and statutes of the
Lord his God, to do what is good and upright in the sight of
God according to that which he commanded through Moses
the lawgiver and through his servants the prophets.
7. He who seeketh to enter the holy order of God must
be one who loveth that which the Lord loveth and hateth that
which the Lord hateth.
8. He must keep all the evil far from him and love to do
good, that his works may bear testimony of his righteousness
before God and man; he must be governed by the principles
of truth, righteousness, and justice in all he doeth while in this
tabernacle of clay, having repented of his inclination to follow
after the dictates of the flesh, no longer doing evil according
to the selfishness and jealousy and contentious spirit which
dwelleth in the natural man.
9. Every member of the Order must be dedicated to
bringing into a bond of mutual love all those who are striving
to live after the holy order of God.
10. To live after the order of the ancients means that they
must live in the community of God's elect, holding all things
common and loving one another as themselves.
11. Yea, they must unite in one heart and one mind, for
only thus can Zion be built up in its perfect order and the
name of our God be glorified.
12. Those entering the holy order must have shown by
their works their desires to live according to all that God has
revealed, to keep all his commandments, to perfect their lives
according to God's holy order that they may be sanctified by
the blood of the covenant unto the renewal of their spirits and
their bodies.

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 13. They must love all the children of Light, each
according to his position in the House of God, for those who
live the highest law are most able to be loved, and so forth,
even unto the lowest law of God.
14. They must hate the works of darkness and avoid
intercourse with the sons of Belial, each according to the
measure of his guilt, for God will bring every work into
judgment and those who associate with the wicked will be
condemned with them.
CHAPTER 3
1. He who loveth the truth and truly desireth to live after
the order of heaven must declare his willingness to be united
to the congregation of the Lord's elect and must consecrate
by covenant all of his mind, all of his strength and all of his
wealth to the community of God so that his mind may be
purified by the truth of the Lord's precepts, his strength
controlled by the Lord's perfect ways, and his wealth disposed
of in accordance with the Lord's just design.
2. He must order his life according to the pattern which
the Lord hath given, observing the hours of worship, the
Sabbaths and the Holy Days to do them, neither omitting the
feasts nor neglecting the fasts of the Lord.
3. He must be one whose heart is knit unto the
ordinances of God's law, who will strive diligently to preserve
them in purity, neither breaking the laws, changing the
ordinances nor neglecting the everlasting covenants of our
God.
CHAPTER 4
1. When such a man cometh forward to present himself
as a candidate for admission into the Order, he should be
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examined carefully by the elders of the community, and
having been proven worthy, he must enter into a covenant in
the presence of God, the holy angels, and his brethren of the
Order by entering into the waters of immersion that he will
do according to all that God hath commanded and not turn
away from the service of the Lord through fear of wicked
men or evil spirits nor through discouragement because of the
trials which Belial shall send against him, for the Lord God of
our Fathers hath appointed that all who seek to live after his
holy order shall be tried and purified until their gold is pure
and their dross consumed.
2. When a man hath entered into this covenant in the
waters of immersion, the elders of the community are to lay
their hands upon his head and bless him with the Holy Spirit
of God.
CHAPTER 5
1. At the end of each year, every member of the
community is to be interviewed, from first to last, that the
spiritual standing of each in the community may be
determined.
2. This is needful so long as Belial continues to hold sway
as the god of this world.
3. The object of this interview is that every man in Israel
may be made aware of his status in the community of God's
elect, that he may measure himself against the perfect, eternal
society of heaven.
4. If any man finds that he is being governed by a law
which is beyond his desires, then let him be placed among
those who live after his own heart.

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 5. If any man will qualify himself to live a law higher than
he is living, let the opportunity be given him to live that law.
6. Thus no man in Israel need be abased below his ability
to qualify nor exalted above his desires to live after the
heavenly pattern.
7. Thus all members of the community will stand, each in
his proper place, according to a true evaluation of his standing
before God.
8. Let those who judge in these matters, judge according
to correct principle, in profound humility, being full of charity
and equity toward their brethren and sisters that the society of
heaven may flourish among you, being sanctified by love and
unity in the Lord our God.
CHAPTER 6
1. Anyone who refuses to live after the pattern of God's
holy order, the perfect society of heaven, but persists in
walking after stubbornness of his own heart and the vain
traditions of his fathers, shall not be admitted into the
community of God's elect.
2. For inasmuch as he has rebelled against the discipline
required of those who are called to set their lives in order
according to the precepts of the heavenly law, he cannot be
counted among the saints of the Most High.
3. The spiritual, mental, physical and material resources of
such a man are of no value to the community of God's elect;
therefore he shall not be permitted to enter into the Order of
Enoch to live after the pattern of heaven.
4. If he were honest in acknowledging his weaknesses
before God, then would the Lord make his weaknesses to
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become strengths unto him, but inasmuch as his heart
remaineth stubborn and he repenteth not, he shall remain in
his sins.
5. Such an one looketh upon the light of God's truth but
seeth only darkness.
6. He can never be sanctified because the light is not in
him that he should be born again, a new creature in the Lord.
7. Although he should offer numerous sacrifices in the
similitude of the Lamb of God and be immersed in water any
number of times and be washed and anointed after the order
of the Messiah, yet he can never be cleansed from his sins
except through contrition and repentance, wherein he
rejecteth his former works and walketh in the path which our
Fathers walked, which is the holy order of God.
8. Unclean, unclean he remaineth so long as he will not be
governed by the laws of God, neither submit himself to the
ordinances; he shall never enter into communion with the
heavenly hosts.
9. It is only when the spirit of man hath been awakened to
the light of God's truth that he can begin to direct his life
according to those holy principles by which he can ascend
into the presence of God and make his calling and election
sure.
10. Only through obedience to those laws and that holy
order which have been handed down from our Fathers who
entered into the presence of the Lord and held communion
with the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn can a
man sanctify his life to commune with the Fathers who have
gone on before.

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 11. Thus can the blessings and rights and the priesthood
of the Fathers descend upon their heads and they shall dwell
in the courts of the sanctified in time and eternity.
12. For only through obedience to the laws and
ordinances of God, walking faithfully after his holy order and
enduring unto the end therein can a man be redeemed from
the Fall and gain a remission of all his sins so that his mind
can be opened to gaze upon the true light of life.
13. It is through obedience to the laws and ordinances of
the Lord that a man receiveth the Holy Ghost which will lead
him unto true and complete union with God and all holy men
as his iniquities are lifted from him and his mind is expanded
to receive God's truth that he may walk therein as one of the
children of light.
14. For the atonement of the Lamb of God cometh upon
all those who are upright and humble and submissive to all
the ordinances of God that their sins should be washed away
in the waters of immersion and they be sanctified through the
blood of the covenant and immersion in fire and in the Holy
Ghost.
15. Thus are they purified from all stain that they should
be pure and holy, without spot.
16. Only such an one can perfectly direct his steps to walk
blamelessly through all the vicissitudes of life, never deviating
from the ways of God, but keeping all the commandments
without turning either to the right or to the left and without
overstepping any of the bounds imposed by the word of God.
17. Then indeed is he perfectly acceptable before God
and a pleasure unto our Lord.

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 18. Then will his joy increase and he will enter by
covenant into the community of the faithful to dwell with the
Fathers who have inherited their thrones forever and ever.
CHAPTER 7
1. Those who enter into covenant to hold all things
common according to the Order of Enoch and faithfully
adhere to the Order of the Ancients should be instructed that
their minds may be opened to the vision of eternity and how
the order of heaven can be established and perpetuated here
on the earth.
2. He who is called to instruct the children of Light in
these matters must understand and teach the disciples the true
nature of man, the different influences which form his
character, the meaning of his history and the reason that God
at one time blesseth him bounteously and at another time
afflicteth him dreadfully.
3. This is the hidden knowledge, the application of which
redeemeth man from his natural state and ushereth him into
the holy order of God where he can be prepared to enter into
the presence of God himself and partake of the fruits of
eternal lives.
CHAPTER 8
1. The Lord is a God of knowledge.
2. By his word was everything made which was made and
he governeth all things according to his infinite
foreknowledge.
3. Even before he created the heavens and the earth, he
counseled with the hosts of heaven and planned a plan
wherein the spirit of every man should have his appointed
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role, for the spirit of every man appeared before the Lord of
spirits in the beginning and received a place appointed in the
family of heaven and earth.
4. When a man filleth his appointed role, it is according to
the glorious design of the Lord of spirits and thus, as each
one functions according to the divine plan, the work of God
is pushed toward its consummation.
5. The designs of God cannot be frustrated; in his hand
lieth the government of all things and he sustaineth all the
children of men in their needs, wherefore it becometh all men
to worship the Lord God of Israel and be obedient to the
divine plan which he hath ordained in their behalf.
CHAPTER 9
1. Now, the God of the spirits of all men created man to
rule the world and set before him the ways of life and death,
truth and falsehood.
2. Thus was man made free, even from the beginning to
choose for himself the good or the evil until the final
judgment when the works of every man shall be made
manifest and each shall receive a just reward according to his
works requisite with the mercy of our God.
CHAPTER 10
1. The origin of truth lieth in the Fountain of Light, the
Holy One of Israel, while the origin of falsehood or evil lieth
in the Wellspring of Darkness.
2. All who practice righteousness are under the
domination of the Prince of Lights and walk in the path of
Light while those who practice evil are under the domination
of the Angel of Darkness and walk in the path of darkness.
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 3. Yea, the Angel of Darkness is the Devil, that evil spirit
who lieth in wait to entrap the souls of men and drag them
down to misery and woe.
4. He lieth in wait at any opportunity to lead the unwary
soul into sin and error so that through his evil influence, even
the children of light are led to commit those things which are
grievous in the eyes of God.
5. When men of their own free will choose to follow the
influence of this enemy of all righteousness, they fall from the
grace of the God of heaven and must repent of their iniquities
that the Lord can visit them in his mercy and redeem them
from their sins, that they may know to sing the song of
redeeming love.
6. All the afflictions which befall the children of men, all
their trials, all their sorrows result from the acts of this Prince
of Evil.
7. He and all his hosts are dedicated to causing the
children of light to fall from grace and become enmeshed in
their snares.
8. Nevertheless, the God of Israel with all his holy angels
is always nearby to assist the sons of Light and save all those
who will call upon his name from the power of the evil ones.
9. The Lord God hath given unto man his agency to
choose the good or the evil.
10. The Lord loveth righteousness and will for ever and
ever and is always pleased with those who walk in paths of
righteousness, but he hateth the evil and those who walk in
the paths of evil will be cast out of the presence of the Lord at
the last day, for the Lord cannot look upon evil with any

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degree of acceptance nor can those who love evil dwell in his
presence.
CHAPTER 11
1. These are the fruits of the Spirit of God: enlightenment
whereby a man can perceive the ways of God to walk therein,
discernment to know the good from the evil, reverence for
the name of Deity and consciousness of the approaching
judgments of God, humility, patience, abundant charity, love
of righteousness, vision, wisdom, trust, faith, confidence in
the power of the Almighty God, knowledge, self-mastery,
sanctity, pure thoughts, abounding love for all who follow the
truth, purity, modesty and the ability to hide within oneself
the secrets of God which one has received.
2. All these things come unto men in this world through
communion with the Spirit of truth.
3. All those who walk in that path which is set before
them by the Spirit of truth shall receive health in their navel
and marrow to their bones and shall find wisdom and hidden
treasures of knowledge.
4. These shall inherit eternal lives, even the continuation
of the seeds forever and ever, worlds without end.
5. Eternal shall be their blessings and everlasting their joy
in the realms of glory, for they shall be crowned with light and
robed in glory and shall dwell in everlasting burnings in the
presence of our God.
CHAPTER 12
1. With the wicked it is not so, for the fruits of
wickedness are greed, malice, falsehood, pride, presumption,
deception, guile, insolence, unrighteous anger, folly,
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arrogance, lewdness, unchastity, blasphemies, selfishness,
blindness of the eyes, deafness of the ears, stiffness of neck
and hardness of heart.
2. Such men walk entirely in the ways of darkness and all
their works are evil and abominable in the eyes of God.
3. Those who walk in the paths of evil shall receive a
multitude of afflictions at the hands of the holy angels.
4. These are the sons of Perdition who are subject to the
wrath of God through all eternity.
5. Eternal horror is their end and perpetual reproach, even
the disgrace of final annihilation in the fire, for they shall
dwell in outer darkness until their end which is extinction
without remnant or survival and after this, their lot no man
knoweth nor is it revealed to any man save those who are
made partakers thereof.
CHAPTER 13
1. Thus, O Elisha, are the ways placed before every man
that he may choose the good or the evil.
2. Thus is man free to choose for himself, for the Lord
will force no man to choose the right and the devil cannot
force him to choose evil.
3. Between good and evil there is an eternal enmity; they
cannot exist together in peace.
4. But the Lord God hath appointed a time of judgment
when he shall destroy evil forever.
5. Then will truth emerge triumphant and shall cover the
earth as the waters cover the seas.

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 6. Then shall the sanctified, those who have been refined
and purified from all evil and all the effects of wickedness
through the immersion of fire and of the Holy Spirit, reign
with the Lord upon the sanctified earth.
7. These have been washed clean in the waters of
immersion and received of the Holy Spirit unto the cleansing
of their souls from all the abominations and filth of
wickedness, that having been made pure and holy they might
understand the hidden mysteries of the kingdom of God,
those secrets which remain among the sons of Light, being
endowed with the vision of the heavenly order.
8. These hath God chosen to be joint heirs in his eternal
covenant that they should inherit his glory.
9. Then will the earth be redeemed; death and hell shall be
no more and men shall dwell in the presence of God, those
who have been sanctified, forever and ever, worlds without
end.
CHAPTER 14
1. Now, my son Elisha, having explained the influences
which lead men to do good or evil, I shall give unto thee the
rules of the Order which all the members of the community
of God's elect are bound to obey.
2. All such as shall have declared their desire to turn away
from all evil and walk in obedience to every word of God
according to the commandments which he hath given shall
observe these rules.
3. They are to keep apart from the company of the
froward, having not intercourse with the inhabitants of the
world except such as is required in the exercise of their

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stewardships and the preaching to them of the gospel of
repentance.
4. They are to be one with their brethren in the
community of God's elect holding all their goods common
according to the holy order of God and holding one faith and
one doctrine.
5. They are to abide by the decisions of the Presidency of
the Order and the Family Council in all matters and be subject
to the word of God as it is delivered through his prophets the
Patriarchs in all matters doctrinal, economic and judicial.
6. They are to be united in all their efforts and always
practice veracity, humility, righteousness, justice, charity and
decency with no one walking in the stubbornness of his own
heart or going astray according to the ideas of his fallible
human mind.
7. They are to unite their efforts in overcoming their
carnal natures, that the flesh may be subjected to the spirit,
putting off the carnal man, becoming spiritual in their natures.
8. They are to establish truth in Israel that falsehood
should be banished from among them forever.
9. They are to unite with an everlasting covenant forming
a bond of union which can never be broken.
10. They are to freely extend forgiveness to all who have
enlisted in the cause of holiness and truth.
11. Thus shall they become united as one man before the
Lord our God that they may be found acceptable in his sight.
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 1. Obedience to these rules can only be maintained
through cultivation of the Holy Spirit which is received in the
ordinances of God's House.
2. Every one who seeketh admittance to the community
of the Order must first be approved by the Presidency of the
Order.
3. He must then enter into a covenant of God in the
presence of his brethren of the Order, binding himself by a
solemn oath to consecrate all of his mind, all of his strength
and all of his wealth to the community of God's elect.
4. He who maketh this covenant is to keep himself apart
from those who have not received the ordinances of God's
House, except when acting in the strength of his Priesthood
in the service of our God.
5. Those who reject the ordinances of God's House
cannot perfect their lives that they may be sanctified by the
power of the Holy Ghost; therefore, they remain in their sins
and their pride, being subject to the judgment of God, for
surely he shall come forth in vengeance upon all those who
have the Covenant revealed unto them but receive it not, until
they shall be finally destroyed without remnant if they repent
not.
6. No man can be purified except by the power of the
Holy Ghost which is received in the ordinances of God.
7. Only thereby can men become holy if they repent of
their evils, for without repentance, the reception of the
ordinances is a mockery before God and shall result in a
cursing and not a blessing.
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 1. When a man desireth to enter the Covenant and take
upon himself the ordinances of God's House, thereby allying
himself with the congregation of the saints, he is to be
interviewed to determine his conduct in life, his relations with
his fellowmen, and his adherence to correct principle and the
true doctrines of heaven.
2. He who is found acceptable shall then enter the Order
of Enoch after the Aaronic order where, through obedience
to the word of God and the instructions of those who preside
over him in the Priesthood, he may progress from one degree
to another until he entereth into the Order of the Father, the
holiest of all.
3. Moreover, every member of the Order is to be
interviewed at the end of each year to evaluate his spiritual
attitude and the performance of his duties.
4. Thus by annual and other interviews, the standing of
each man in the community may be made evident, that the
righteous may be promoted by virtue of their increased
understanding and the integrity of their conduct, while the
froward shall be demoted for their waywardness.
CHAPTER 17
1. When any member of the community hath been
offended by another or observeth another in wrongdoing, he
is not to come against that erring one with a railing
accusation, but is to approach him truthfully, humbly and
humanely.
2. A saint of God must not bear hatred in his heart
toward his brother.
3. If the offender will not hear his complaint, then he is to
take with him two of the teachers to reason with him.
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 4. If the offender will not hear them, then he is to be
called before the High Priest and his brethren who are set as
judges in Israel.
5. Thus will all disputations be settled in order, without
anger or emotion, that peace and harmony and unity may be
preserved in Israel.
6. Furthermore, no man is to bring a charge publicly
against his brother except he prove it by witnesses, for in the
mouth of two or three witnesses shall every charge be
established.
CHAPTER 18
1. These rules should govern the affairs of the
community.
2. All those who have entered the holy order of God
should be obedient to those who have been placed over them
in the Priesthood in all matters, as especially those relating to
the Order of Enoch.
3. All the elect are to eat at a common table, assemble at
every appointed time to worship the Lord their God and
attend all councils to which they are invited.
4. They are to attend the schools of the Priesthood where
they can be instructed in the order of heaven.
5. They are to neither eat nor drink that which hath not
been blessed and sanctified.
6. They shall assemble at sunrise, high noon and sundown
to praise the Lord their God and worship before his throne.
7. They shall meet together often to study the word of
God and share the word of life.
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 CHAPTER 19
1. The council of the Order is to be conducted according
to the laws of God.
2. Every member is to have an equal opportunity to give
his opinion in the council.
3. No one, however, is to interrupt while his brother is
speaking not to speak until he is finished.
4. Everyone is to speak in turn, as he is called upon.
5. No one is to speak on any subject which is not the
concern of that council.
6. Thus by reasoning together will the council determine
the will of God that all things in the Order may be done to
the glory of the God of Israel.
CHAPTER 20
1. Regarding the teaching of this order, O Elisha, no one
is to engage in discussion or disputation with another
concerning the Law of God nor is it to be discussed with
those who are not sincerely seeking the truth.
2. With those, however, that have chosen the right path,
everyone is to discuss matters pertaining to the knowledge of
God's truth and of his righteous judgments.
3. The purpose of such discussions is to guide the minds
of the members of the community, to give them insight into
God's hidden wonders and truths, and to bring them to walk
blamelessly each with his neighbor in harmony with all that
has been revealed to them.

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 4. For this life is a time of preparation for meeting the
Lord and a time when the elect must be careful not to mingle
with the wicked lest they be led to turn aside from the way
through the cunning craftiness of the evil ones.
CHAPTER 21
1. Thus must the elect be careful to live by every word of
God.
2. Say unto those who are seeking the inner vision in these
dark days, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let mine elect
keep no fellowship with the world for all their ways are evil
before me.
3. Leave them to pursue their wealth and profit, for they
are slaves to their desires.
4. Be ye zealous to carry out every covenant and
commandment which ye have received in the ordinances of
mine house or ye shall be in the power of the devil, and surely
it shall be hard for you at the judgment bar.
5. Faithfully exercise your stewardships according to the
holy order of God which I have revealed unto you.
6. Accept willingly whatever may befall you, for I, the
Lord, have all things in mine hands and take your pleasure in
nothing but according to the will of God.
7. Speak only that which is acceptable before your God
and lust not after anything which I have not commanded.
8. Then shall your reward be sure and ye shall stand at the
judgment bar without fear. Amen.
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 1. Now, Elisha, my son, I shall soon leave to join my
Father Enoch whose city I have sought all my days, but I shall
leave with thee the keys which are necessary for thee to do the
work which the Lord hath appointed thee.
2. My mantle also shall fall upon thee and the pure in
heart will know thy voice and will follow thee.
3. Farewell, my son.
4. May the grace of God attend thee all thy days and may
the peace of God be in thine heart. Amen.

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 The Writings of
Abraham
from the papyri found in Egypt
1831

Part 1:
Chapter 1 – 79
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CHAPTER 1

BEHOLD my son, I have caused to come into thine

hands a fragment of the writings of Abraham in which he
hath left a record of his sojourn among men and of the
blessings of the Lord unto him. This I have brought to
thee that thou might restore that which is lost that the
fullness of the record in its original purity might be found
again among the sons of God.

2. Behold, these things are sacred, wherefore, send them

not forth unto the children of men but let them be for the
edification of the elect that your hearts may be turned
unto the Fathers and ye may draw close to them and they
to you.

3. Thus will the veil be withdrawn and ye will commune

with the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn
and shall even be ushered back unto my presence.

4. Go to now and do this work which I have placed in

thine hands. Amen.

CHAPTER 2

I, Abraham, was born the son of Terah who was Prime

Minister to Nimrod who reigned in Ur of the Chaldeans.
2. Now this Nimrod was a wicked man and an idolater
and my father (Terah) was led to follow after his
abominations.

3. Moreover, Nimrod was a man of mighty power for he

was Master Mahan and had in his hands the secrets of the
ancients as they had come down from Cain wherein he
knew the words of power and the signs for using them
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and he had the holy garments which had been given unto
Adam in the garden in which was great power.

4. All of this power did Nimrod use to get gain after the
manner of the secret combination.

5. With his power he had set out to build a tower which

would reach to heaven, even the city of my father Enoch
which had been taken up, that he, Nimrod, might depose
God from his throne for God had taken up his abode
among the people of Enoch.

6. But God frustrated the plans of Nimrod by

confounding the language of him and his people that they
could no longer remember the sacred words and they
scattered forth over the face of the earth.

7. At that time Nimrod came and established the city of

Ur which is the City of Light, for he yet retained his
determination to build a city to rival the city of God that
the light and power might center in him.

8. And through the ministration of Satan he did receive

again some of the words of power and did reorganize the
secret combination among his people; but he had not
power as at the first for the fullness of the pure language
was not restored to him according to the decree of the
Most High God.

9. Now, in all the wickedness of Nimrod, my father stood

by his side for he was deceived by the subtle cunning and
power which Nimrod possessed.

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CHAPTER 3

MY father Terah was the son of Nahor and Nahor was

the son of Serug and Serug was the son of Reu and Reu
was the son of Peleg in whose days the earth was divided.

2. Peleg was the son of Eber who was the son of Eber
who was the son of Salah who was the son of Arphaxad
the son of Shem, who was Melchizedek, which by
interpretation is king priest, for he was a king and a priest
of the Most High God.

CHAPTER 4

NOAH was the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah,

the son of Enoch, who was taken up with his city that
they might minister unto those in the flesh who sought a
higher law than was available to them on the earth.

2. Now the birth of Noah was after this manner: While

his father Lamech was journeying toward his home from
preaching the gospel among the sons of men, most of
whom had rejected his testimony, an angel of the Lord
appeared unto him and saluted him, saying, Hail Lamech,
thou favored one of God, for according to the promise of
the Lord God to thy father Enoch, thou hast been chosen
to be father to him though whom the seed of the Gods
will be preserved through the great flood which the Gods
will send upon the earth in judgment, for all the sons of
men have gone astray through the corruptions of those
angels who fell from among the Gods and mingled their
seed with the daughters of men and begat sons of great
strength and mighty wickedness.

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3. Yea, these have caused all flesh to corrupt their way
before the Lord; wherefore they shall be destroyed, save
thy son who shall be the seed of the angels.

CHAPTER 5

THE mother of Noah was also the daughter of

Methuselah for Lamech and his wife had the same father
but different mothers.

2. And when Noah was born, his body was full of light,
which thing caused great consternation to his father and
mother and his father's wives and children and all his
house.

3. Moreover, the child stood upon his feet when he had

come forth from the womb and his tongue was loosed
and he did sing praises unto the Lord saying, I will praise
thee, O Lord, for thou art the source of all power, yea, the
wellspring whence it floweth unto the sons of God, and
thou art also abounding in wisdom and great and mighty
counsel unto thy servants.

4. Nevertheless, though thou art a God who is long-

suffering in judgment, the sins of the children of men
have come up before thy face and thy fury hath waxed
strong and will be visited with judgments upon the earth.

5. Thy mercies, O Lord, are beyond number, but thou art

a God that visiteth wrongdoing upon the children of men
who the fullness of their iniquity hath come upon them.

6. Therefore shall the earth be destroyed according to the

word of God which cannot fail.

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7. For the waters of the flood shall come upon the earth
and all things shall perish from before thy face, O Lord.

8. Nevertheless, in thee do we put our trust for in

whatsoever thou doest, O Lord, thou hast ever done
justly. Amen.

CHAPTER 6

THESE things were a source of amazement and concern

unto Lamech who thereupon went unto his father,
Methuselah, and finding him in the temple he said, My
father, this day did my wife, they daughter, bear a man-
child.

2. And at his birth the room was full of light so that we

could not look upon him and when we could look upon
him, behold, the child's hair was white and fire seemed to
come from his eyes and then he stood upon his feet and
sang a hymn of praise unto the Lord and lo, he seemed to
have the tongue of an angel.

3. Tell me now the meaning of these things and how can I

raise such a son?

CHAPTER 7

HEARING these words, Methuselah, too, was troubled

and said, Fear not, my son, for although I know now the
meaning of these things, I will go unto my father, Enoch,
for he is privy to the angels and he will be able to explain
all things to us.

2. Whereupon, Methuselah traveled to the top of the

highest mountain whence he could speak unto his father,

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Enoch, and he said unto him, My father, my daughter,
who is the wife of my son Lamech, hath this day brought
forth a man-child.

3. And at his birth the room was full of light so that they
could not look upon him and when they could look upon
him, Behold the child's hair was white and fire seemed to
come from his eyes and then he stood upon his feet and
sang a hymn of praise unto the Lord and lo, he seemed to
have the tongue of an angel.

4. Thus saith my son Lamech, who is greatly perplexed as

to the meaning of these things and how he can raise such
a son.

CHAPTER 8

HEARING this report, Enoch comforted his son

Methuselah, saying, Fear not, my son, nor fret thyself
about this matter for did not a holy angel visit thy son
Lamech and tell him that this should be the seed of the
angels? And was it not so?

2. For this cause have these things happened; but on the

eighth day when the child is circumcised, he shall be
covered and shall appear as other men except that his hair
shall remain white as a token that through him the Lord
will do a mighty work.

3. This word did Methuselah return to his son Lamech

and he was comforted.

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AND on the eighth day when the child was circumcised,
he was covered that he became as other men except that
his hair remained white and they called his name Noah,
which by interpretation is comfort, because, Lamech said,
Mine heart is comforted to know that my seed shall be
preserved through the great flood.

CHAPTER 10

AND the child grew and waxed strong in wisdom and

mighty in the power of the priesthood for he was initiated
into the Order of the Ancients in his childhood and
learned the rites and ordinances and the powers of the
priesthood with the signs and tokens and key words
wherewith he could call upon the powers of heaven to
combat the forces of the adversary.

2. And when he was come of age, he took twelve wives

and begat many sons and daughters who grew up in
righteousness and served the Lord all their days and some
died and others were caught up unto the city of Enoch.

3. But in the next generation they corrupted themselves,

for the daughters of Noah's sons did go forth and lay with
the sons of men, which thing was an abomination in the
eyes of God.

4. Wherefore, the Lord said unto Noah, Behold, the

daughters of thy sons have sold themselves, for behold,
mine anger is kindled against the sons of men, for they
will not hearken to my voice; wherefore, all those who go
in unto them will be destroyed with them.

CHAPTER 11

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AND when Noah was four hundred and fifty years old,
he begat a son and he called his name Japheth.

2. Fortytwo years later he begat another son of her who

was the mother of Japheth, and he called his name Shem.

3. Eight years later Noah begat a son of his wife Naamah,

who was of the seed of Cain, and he called his name Ham,
for he said, Through him will the curse be preserved in
the land.

CHAPTER 12

NOW Noah had taken a wife of the seed of Cain, and she
was a righteous woman; nevertheless, the curse remained
with her seed according to the word of God.

2. And Noah took her on this wise: For the word of the
Lord came unto Noah, saying, Take unto thyself Naamah,
the daughter of Lamech, who dwelleth here in the city of
thy fathers, for she hath been faithful to my gospel,
wherefore I shall preserve through her the seed of Cain
through the flood.

3. This Lamech who was the father of Naamah was of the

seed of Cain being the son of Methusael, the son of
Mahujael, the son of Irad, the son of Enoch, the son of
Cain.

4. Lamech had married Adah and Zillah, the daughters of

Cainan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of
Adam. Adah bare children unto Lamech, but Zillah was
barren until her old age when the Lord opened her womb,
and she conceived and bare a son and a daughter.

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5. Her son she named Tubal Cain, saying, After I had
withered away have I obtained him from the Almighty
God.

6. Her daughter she named Naamah, saying, After I had

withered away have I obtained pleasure and delight.

CHAPTER 13

WHILE Naamah was yet a child, great consternation fell

upon the seed of Cain, for Irad the Son of Enoch, the son
of Cain, had become a member of the secret combination
and was privy to all it secrets until one night when the
Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, Irad, thou hast
done evil instead of good and hast followed after Satan
rather than God; wherefore, I shall destroy thee and thine
house when I send in the floods upon the earth.

2. But Irad was pricked in his heart and pled with the
Lord to show mercy and preserve his seed through the
great flood.

3. Seeing that his penitence was true, the Lord said to him,
Irad, if thou wilt repent and reveal the evils of the secret
combination unto the sons of Seth, I will have mercy
upon thee and I will join thy seed unto the seed of Seth
that it may be preserved through the great flood.

4. Wherefore, Irad went forth and began to reveal the

secrets of the sons of Cain unto the sons of Seth.

5. Lamech, being Master Mahan at that time, found Irad

sitting in his garden with Joram, the young son of Irad,
and slew him.

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6. Thus Lamech slew Irad for the sake of the oath of the
secret combination and he slew Irad's son with him.

7. But Tubal Cain, the son of Lamech, had followed him

and viewed his evil deed which he had committed and he
revealed it unto his mother Zillah and she unto her sister
Adah.

8. Wherefore, Adah and Zillah confronted Lamech with

his evil and cursed him in the name of the Lord for
having slain Irad who had repented of his wickedness
from among the sons of men.

9. And Lamech said unto his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear
my voice, ye wives of Lamech; hearken unto my speech,
for I have slain a man to my wounding and a young man
to my hurt.

10. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech shall

be seventy and seven fold.

11. Lamech's wives, therefore, feared to confront him

further, but Lamech repented not of his evil deeds and
finding his son Tubal Cain at prayer, he slew him for
having revealed his murders. 12. When Adah and Zillah,
the wives of Lamech, learned of this, they took their
remaining sons and daughters and went unto their father
Cainan's city and revealed the remainder of the secrets of
this evil combination among the sons of Adam.

13. Thus did Naamah come to dwell among the sons of

Adam and she grew up before the Lord in righteousness
and was known for her tender care toward the sick and
the unfortunate.

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14. Nevertheless, she had not husband because she was of
the forbidden race.

CHAPTER 14

WHEN the word of the Lord came unto Noah, saying,

Take unto thyself Naama, the daughter of Lamech who
dwelleth here in the city of thy fathers, for she hath been
faithful to my gospel, wherefore, I shall preserve through
her the seed of Cain through the flood, Noah went unto
his father, Methuselah.

2. Methuselah inquired of the Lord and returned this

word unto his son Lamech: Verily, thus saith the Lord,
Mine handmaiden Naamah have I given unto my son
Noah that the seed of Cain might be preserved through
the great flood which I will send upon the earth.

3. Wherefore, let not my son Noah fear to take her to

wife, for in so doing he shall be blessed for through him
will come all nations.

4. Wherefore, say unto him, Noah, my son, I have looked

upon the evils of the sons of men which have come up
before me, for they have corrupted the whole earth save
only this city in which thou dwellest.

5. Therefore, I will send in the floods upon the earth but

thou and thy seed will I preserve through the flood, for I
will send mine angels to instruct thee in the building of an
ark wherein ye shall be saved.

6. Behold, I shall establish thy seed before me forever and

I will spread them abroad over the earth as numerous as
the sand upon the seashore.
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7. Thy seed shall not cease as long as the earth shall stand
but through thee and thy priesthood which will be
preserved in thy seed shall all nations be blessed.

CHAPTER 15

WHEN Lamech returned this word to his son, Noah

rejoiced and praised the Lord saying, I give thanks unto
thee, O Lord, for thou hast been unto me a strong wall
against all that would seek my destruction.

2. Yea, thou hast promised to shelter my from the

disasters which are coming upon the earth, that the floods
shall not come in upon me to destroy my seed from the
earth.

3. Thou hast set my foot upon a rock that the sons of

men shall not prevail against me.

4. Yea, I will walk in the way of the Ancients; in the paths

which thou hast appointed will I spend my days for thou
art my Shield and my Deliverer and in Thee will I trust all
the days on my life. Amen.

CHAPTER 16

THUS did Noah take to wife Naamah, the daughter of

Zillah, the wife of Lamech of the seed of Cain, and she
bare him a son whom he named Ham, and thus was the
curse preserved in the land through the great flood.

2. For when the patience of God was ended in which He

did grant a space of time for repentance unto the sons of
men, the floods came in upon the earth and destroyed all
flesh from off the face of the earth save eight souls only,

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for Noah and his youngest wife Adah, and his three sons
Shem, Japheth, and Ham and one of each of their wives
were preserved in the ark which the angels had instructed
Noah in building.

3. The remainder of the righteous had died or been caught

up into Enoch's city prior to the time of the flood, and
these eight were saved.

CHAPTER 17

NOW when the flood had abated and the ark had come
to rest upon the top of a mountain, Noah and his family
descended the and after offering sacrifices unto the Lord
and dedicating the land, they began to till the ground and
raise all manner of crops.

2. And when the grape harvest was come in, Noah made
wine and drank of the new wine in his tent and his heart
was made glad and he rejoiced before the lord for the
bounty which the Lord had given him.

3. And it was upon the Feast of Pentecost when Noah

drank of the new wine before the Lord and lay down
naked in his tent to sleep.

4. When Ham, the son of Noah, entered the tent he saw

his father sleeping naked upon his bed with the sacred
garments which had been given to Adam in the garden of
Eden laying nearby.

5. Ham knew that he and his posterity could not bear the
priesthood because of the curse of Cain which was upon
them and knowing there was great power in the sacred

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garments, he stole them form his Father Noah and
hurried to his tents.

6. Rousing his family, Ham instructed them to strike their

tents and led them away to the plain of Shinar where he
dwelt and where Ham died.

7. Now Ham's wife was named Zeptah and she was also
of the seed of Cain and they had a daughter named
Zeptah.

8. This daughter, after the death of Ham, led a body of his

people westward until they reached a body of water in the
land of Zeptah, which is Egypt, where they settled and as
the waters receded from off the land, they spread out and
build many cities and temples.

CHAPTER 18

BEFORE the death of Ham, the sacred garments were

given secretly by him to his son Cush

2. Cush also kept them hidden and in his old age gave
them unto his son Nimrod and when Nimrod was twenty
years of age, he put on the garments and he derived great
strength and power from them.

3. Moreover, Nimrod was instructed in all the secrets of

the evil combination by his father Cain, for Cain had not
perished in the flood.

4. Wherefore, Nimrod became a mighty man among the

sons of men and established his kingdom and grew
stronger and stronger in wickedness after the order of the
secret combination which was from the beginning, for

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Nimrod spread his dominion over all mankind save those
in the city of Shalom.

CHAPTER 19

SHEM ruled in the city of Shalom and he was called

Melchizedek, for the reigned as king under his father
Noah, and was a priest of the Most High God.

2. After the departure of Ham from the presence of his

father Noah, Shem and Japheth dwelt together in peace
under the benign rule of Noah; but in time, conflict arose
among them and Noah led the seed of Shem to a new
land which the Lord showed him where they built a city
which they called Shalom, the City of Peace.

3. Noah invested his son Shem with authority to reign as

Prince of Peace, and Noah devoted his days to instructing
his people after the Order of the Ancients.

4. And his people dwelt in righteousness and worshipped

the Lord their God and served Him.

5. They established the order of heaven among them and

sought after the City of Enoch and the Lord came among
them and ministered to them and those who sought for
the gain of this world went out from among them, for
they held all things common after the order of Enoch and
no man had above his neighbor.

CHAPTER 20

AMONG those who went forth from the city of Shalom

was Peleg, who traveled to the northwest and established
a city after the order of his father Noah, for Peleg was the
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son of Eber, the son of Salah, the son of Arphaxad, the
son of Shem; and his people sought after the heavenly
order and obtained it for they were caught up like the City
of Enoch.

2. But Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, followed

not after the way of his fathers, for he sought after gain
for himself; wherefore, he led those who were of a like
mind with himself out from the City of Peleg and they
journeyed even unto the land of Shinar and became
confederate with Nimrod.

3. Under the direction of Nimrod, Serug and his

companions entered into the secret combination and
became men of power and wealth in Nimrod's kingdom.

4. In the land of Shinar, Serug begat Nahor, and Nahor

begat Terah, my father.

5. And Terah became great in the eyes of Nimrod, and

Nimrod elevated him over all his people to stand at his
right hand and advise him on all matters.

CHAPTER 21

NOW, my father Terah took many wives and begat many

children.

2. And when he was sixtyfive years of age, he took to wife

Amthelo, the daughter of Cornebo, the son of Serug, and
she was a young woman of fifteen years.

3. And when Terah was seventy years old, his wife

Amthelo conceived and bare him a son whom he named
Abram, which be interpretation is Exalted Father, for he

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said, Nimrod hath raised me on high over all his host,
wherefore, my seed shall reign as gods forever.

4. Now this prophecy he spake, not knowing that it was

of the Lord God.

CHAPTER 22

ON the night that I was born, there were great sings in

the heavens, and when Nimrod's astrologers saw them,
they were astonished and they spake evil of me to the
king, saying that surely I should overthrow his kingdom.

2. Wherefore, they counseled the king to purchase me of

my father that they might slay me and thus frustrate the
plans of God.

3. King Nimrod thereupon sent for my father, Terah, and

spake unto him of the words of the astrologers and asked
for his son in return for a great sum of gold and silver.

4. But the Spirit of the Lord wrought upon my father that

he was loathe to give me up to the king.

5. On the night that I was born, a son was also born unto
one of my father's concubines and this child my father
took unto the king and the king slew him in my stead, for
thus had God ordained that I might grow up to serve him,
the only wise and true God, and strive to establish his
order in the earth all my days.

CHAPTER 23

THUS was my life saved by my father Terah, and he took

me with my mother, Amthelo, and my nurse, Edna, unto
a cave hidden in the mountains some distance from the
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city of Ur where he secreted us and visited us each month
at the New Moon.

2. For my father thus informed the king that he went each

month on the New Moon to a spot sacred to his family
deity.

3. For in the kingdom of Nimrod, each man worshipped

gods of his own make, gods of wood and stone, each after
the imagination of his own heart.

4. Thus did I dwell in the cave with my mother, Amthelo,

and my nurse, Edna, and knew no other man save my
father, Terah, and my elder brothers, Haran and Nahor,
who accompanied my father on his visits.

CHAPTER 24

WHEN I was three years of age, the Lord visited me in a

dream of the night and he said unto me, Abram.

2. And I said, Here am I.

3. And he said unto me, Abram, I am the God of thy

fathers Peleg and Shem and Noah.

4. It is I who preserved thy life when the wicked king

Nimrod would have destroyed thee, for I softened the
heart of thy father that he should hide thee away.

5. This I did for I have a mighty work for thee to do in

establishing mine order upon the earth, and, verily, I say
unto thee, I the end, through thee shall this wicked
Nimrod be destroyed from off the face of the earth.

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6. Behold, thou shalt remain in this cave with thy mother
and thy nurse for yet seven years, and at the end of that
time thou shalt depart and I will send mine angel to guide
thee unto the city of thy father Noah where thou shalt be
instructed in the way of life.

7. And from that time forth the Lord instructed me often

in dreams of the night that my mind was opened to the
ways of his kingdom.

CHAPTER 25

WHEN I was ten years of age, I departed from the cave

by night while my mother and my nurse slept and the
angel of God met me and led me to the city of Shalom
where Noah and his son Shem dwelt, and no man knew
where I was.

2. And I dwelt with Noah and Shem for thirtynine years,

being instructed in all the ways of the Most High God.

3. And finding great happiness and peace and rest therein,

I sought for the blessings of the Fathers and I received,
under the direction of Noah and Shem, those instructions
whereby I might enter into the Order of the ancients and
I became a rightful heir and high priest, holding the right
belonging to the Fathers. For I was ushered into the
Church of the Firstborn and tasted of the fruits of
heavenly life.

CHAPTER 26

IN my fiftieth year, Father Shem called my into his

presence and instructed me to return to the house of my
father, for there were many there now who were seeking
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after light and truth for they had seen the foolishness of
worshipping idols of wood and stone, but they knew not
where to find the true God.

2. And Father Shem blessed me saying, Blessed art thou

Abram of the Most High god for He hath looked upon
thee and found thine heart right before Him.

3. For this cause, the Most High shall visit thee and thou
shalt stand at the head and be the father of a multitude,
for many nations shall spring forth from thy loins.

4. Behold, in thy father's house dwelleth she to whom the

promises belong, for she is a princess in the house of the
Most High and shall reign as a queen over thy posterity
forever.

5. Seek after her and take her to wife for she will be the
mother of the promised seed.

6. The blessings of the God of Noah attend thee, my son,

as thou journeyest on thy way for, from this time forth,
thou shalt be a wanderer in the earth until thy seed shall
come in to inherit this land by the power of God and the
sword of His might.

7. Be faithful always, preach the truth in soberness and be

valiant in the cause of God, and thou shalt be blessed
forevermore. Amen.

CHAPTER 27

WITH this blessing resting upon me, I gathered together

my family, for I had taken seven wives in the city of
Shalom who had borne me fifty daughters.

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2. And although I had no sons of mine own flesh, yet I
had adopted twelve sons of those who were faithful to the
Order of the Ancients and foremost among these was
Eliezer of Damascus who had come to the city of Shalom
seeking after the blessings of the Fathers and had
remained as my son.

3. Him I appointed as steward over all I possessed for this

journey, for he stood as mine heir for I loved him as my
son and brother.

4. But Father Shem said unto me, Eliezer is a good and

righteous man and he shall be greatly blessed in time and
in eternity, but he shall not be thine heir who shall be
thine heir who shall take in the house of thy father, for
she is ordained to be thy queen of queens and the mother
of thine heir.

5. Wherefore, as I have said, I gathered together my wives

and my daughters and my adopted sons and their wives
and children and I said unto them, Hear my words,
beloved and hearken unto my speech, for I have been
sent with a mission unto the house of my father in the
land of Shinar to gather out the pure in heart who are
seeking after the true God.

6. Gather together all your goods and make you tents in

which to dwell and saddle your asses to travel upon for
the Most High God hath declared that we shall be
wanderers upon the earth from this time forth until our
seed shall come in to inherit this land by the power of
God and the sword of his might.

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CHAPTER 28

THEN commenced they their preparations and on the

appointed day, all was in readiness for our departure.
2. And when Father Shem came forth to bless us, Father
Noah came also with him.

3. Now Father Noah dwelt in the temple in the heart of

the city of Shalom and seldom came out of the holy place,
for I had never seen him without its sacred precincts.

4. But he came forth at this time and lifted up his hands

and blessed us in the name of the Most High God and we
departed from his house.

CHAPTER 29

WE journeyed slowly for the sake of the women and

children and we journeyed not upon the Sabbath day nor
upon any of the holy days, for we thought it better to
worship the Lord our God according to the pattern of
heaven than to proceed rapidly upon our way, and we did
know that the Lord prospered us in our journey and
protected us from the power of all our enemies because
we did faithfully serve Him and worship before His
throne according to the divine pattern.

2. But at length we did arrive in the land of Shinar at the

city of Ur.

3. Now the size of this city was immense.

4. Its buildings were grand and beautiful with gardens

upon the rooftops and rivers of water running down from
level to level.

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5. The streets were wide and smooth and the inhabitants
wealthy, dwelling in luxury.

6. Merchant caravans continually entered and left her

gates and the great of all nations came here to pay homage
to the might King Nimrod.

7. Nevertheless, the wealth of this great city was built

upon sin for the people served many idol gods and
offered upon their altars men, women, and children after
the same manner as the Egyptians.

8. And they had numerous slaves who were kept down in

bondage and poverty and were driven like dumb beasts to
provide the luxury in which their masters dwelt.

9. Behold, the inhabitants of the city did delight in

whoredom and adultery and murder and all manner of
evil, whereby they might get gain.

10. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them.

11. Nevertheless, he did let them go on that they might be

fully ripened in iniquity before the fullness of his wrath
should fall upon them.

12. All of these things did the Lord God show unto me in
a dream on the night before we entered into the city of
Ur; and He said unto me, Abram, this city is vile and
corrupt, but in it are some few souls who have not bowed
the knee to their idol gods and it is because of their
prayers that I have brought you here, that they might be
taught to worship the true God after the order of heaven
and be led out from wickedness and bondage.

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13. Wherefore, go unto thy father's house, for thy mother
hath sorrowed for these many years, and I have softened
the heart of thy father toward these that he shall make
thee welcome and will protect these against the anger of
the king such that thou shalt be able to accomplish thy
mission.

14. Behold, Abram, I am the Lord God of thy Fathers

Shem and Noah, and of all the righteous Fathers back to
Adam.

15. Wherefore, I will remain with thee and confirm upon

thee all the blessings of the Fathers and thou shalt stand
at the head of a multitude. Amen.

CHAPTER 30

IN the morning before entering the city, I gathered my

family together consisting of my seven wives, my fifty
daughters, my twelve adopted sons, and three hundred
and fifty menservants whom Shem had sent with their
families, being in all six thousand three hundred and
seventy souls.

2. And I said unto them, Behold, this great city is steeped

in wickedness and sin for the secret combinations which
was from the beginning doth hold her sway.

3. Wherefore, ye shall remain here under the direction of

Eliezer while I go alone into the city unto my father's
house, for the Lord God of Shem and of Noah hath
promised me that the will protect me against the anger of
the king such that I shall be able to accomplish my
mission.

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4. I led my family in prayer before the Lord, kissed them
all and departing from them, entered into the city.

CHAPTER 31

BEING led by the Spirit of the Lord, I found my father's

house and, entering the gate, addressed the guard who
was standing there, saying, Behold, I am Abram, son of
Terah, who hath spent these forty years in the house of
Shem.

2. Take me now to my father.

3. The guard stood as one dumbfounded, knowing not

what to make of such a greeting, but at length called a boy
whom he dispatched to locate my father.

4. At length the lad returned, followed closely by my

father who was greatly surprised to see me, but who
recognized me as his son by the inspiration of the Spirit
of the Lord.

5. By this time my arrival had caused great excitement

throughout my father's household, which was very large,
and my mother, having heard of my coming, hastened to
the place where we were, weeping and rejoicing for she
had thought that I had wandered from the cave and been
slain by wild beasts in the wilderness.

6. At length she led me away to her chamber to talk with

me and I told her of all that had transpired with me since
my leaving the cave of my being led by the angel to the
city of Shalom, of being instructed under the direction of
Shem, of the increase of my family and of the mercies of
the true God of heaven exercised in my behalf.
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7. I talked to her of the futility of worshipping idols of
wood and stone made by men's hands which have no
power in them and of the Order of the Ancients which
was preserved in the city of Shalom under Noah and
Shem which I had been sent to proclaim in the great city
of Ur.

CHAPTER 32

MY mother heard all my words and rejoiced in them for

she was one whose heart had been turned from the
worship of dumb idols to the worship of the unknown
God.

2. Moreover, a small body of like believers numbering

about one hundred souls met secretly in my father's house
to worship the unseen God and pray for further light
concerning his ways, among whom were my brother
Haran, with his son Lot and his daughters Milcah and
Sarai, and my brother Nahor.

3. Now, when my mother had heard my words, she bade

me remain with her until evening when the believers were
to meet in her rooms.

4. Wherefore, that night I met with those who had

rejected the idolatry of their fathers and they were all of
the seed of those who had come out from the city of
Peleg.

5. Wherefore, I rehearsed unto them all the things I had

told unto my mother and they likewise rejoiced therein.
6. But unto my father I spake not of these things at this
time for he was yet privy to Nimrod and was steeped in
his evil ways.
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CHAPTER 33

WHEN I had dwelt in my father's house for seven days

teaching the word of life unto the believers, I went unto
my father as he sat in his outer court with his servants
attending to affairs of state.

2. And when he would hear me, I said unto him, Father,

where is the God who created heaven and earth and all
the hosts of them?

3. My father Terah answered me and said, Behold, my

son, those gods who created all things are here with us in
the house.

4. My lord, show them to me I pray thee, I exclaimed.

5. Whereupon my father Terah led me unto a chamber in
the center of his house wherein were twelve great idol
gods and numerous smaller ones.

6. And my father said unto me, Behold, my son, these

twelve great ones are rulers among the gods and this
largest one is ruler above all and these others were their
assistants in creating all things.

7. And my father Terah bowed down and worshipped

before his idol gods and we departed from them.

CHAPTER 34

WHEN I departed from the presence of my father, I went

unto my mother and said unto her, My mother, there is a
great evil in this place for my father keepeth a room full
of idols in the center of his house which thing is contrary
to the commandments of God, wherefore the wrath of

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God shall not depart from this house until they are
destroyed.

2. Let one of the young men be sent, therefore, to fetch a

kid of the goats and make thereof savory meat for
therewith shall I destroy these idols in which is neither life
nor power.

3. My mother, therefore, summoned one of the young

men who was with her in the house and sent him to fetch
a kid of the goats whereof she made savory meat.

4. When it was prepared, I took the savory meat from her

and went unto the room where my father kept his gods
and I prayed there unto the Lord my God saying, O Lord
god of Shem and of Noah, look upon me here in my
weakness and strengthen mine arm that I may destroy
these false gods and give me the wisdom and strength to
go through all that follows and endure unto the end in
service unto my God.

5. When I had said these words, the Spirit of the Lord fell
upon me, even the Spirit of prophecy, and I was led to
exclaim, Woe unto my father and this wicked and corrupt
people among whom he dwelleth, whose hearts are all
inclined to vanity, for they serve idols of wood and stone,
the workmanship of their own hands, which neither eat
nor smell nor hear nor speak, for there is no power in
them and those who serve them shall likewise be
powerless to escape when the wrath of God shall overtake
them in a day they think not.

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AT this time the Spirit of God fell upon me in mighty
power to strengthen mine arm, and picking up a hatchet
which I had brought with me for that purpose, I
destroyed all my father's idols, both wood and stone, by
the power of God which was in me, except for the largest
in whose hand I placed the hatchet.

2. Then going to my father I said unto him, My Father, I

have seen a wondrous thing for my mother did make me
savory meat this day to offer before the gods who created
all things.

3. And when I took the meat in unto them, they all

reached forth their hands to partake thereof.

4. When the one who is ruler above all saw their words,
he being angered left the room and returned with a
hatchet wherewith he destroyed the other gods, both
wood and stone; and behold, he standeth there even now
with the hatchet in his hand and the savory meat before
him.

CHAPTER 36

HEARING these words, my father hastened unto the

room of his gods and found it even as I had said, and his
anger was kindled against me and he said, This is an idle
tale thou hast told me and false.

2. Why hast thou done this thing and lied unto me?

3. These gods have no life in them to do these things for

they are wood and stone and, behold, I myself have had
them made by the craftsmen.

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4. Why hast thou then come into mine house to destroy
my gods?

CHAPTER 37

THE Spirit of the Lord fell upon me at this time that I

should answer my father and I said unto him, How is it
thou servest these idols of wood and stone, the
handiwork of the craftsmen in which is neither life nor
power to act?

2. Can these which cannot deliver themselves from the

hatchet deliver thee from the power of the enemy?

3. Can they hear thy prayers when thou callest upon them
from out of the midst of thine afflictions?

4. Surely it is an evil thing that thou and thy people should

serve these false gods for the Lord Jehovah, he is the God
who created heaven and earth and all that in them is, and
he hath commanded all men to worship him only and to
serve him all their days.

5. Behold, your fathers in the days before the great flood

worshipped false idols after the same evil combination
into which ye have entered and, because of their
perversions, they were destroyed.

6. Will ye also go on in their wickedness to bring down

the wrath of the Most High God upon you that ye, too,
should be destroyed from under heaven?
7. Nay, my father, but repent of this evil and turn unto the
Lord thy God and live.

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8. So saying, I took the hatchet from the hands of the
remaining idol and smote him with it until he was
destroyed.

CHAPTER 38

MY father, hearing my words and seeing what I had done,

increased in anger against me and hastened from his
house unto the king, for he had access to King Nimrod
both day and night.

2. When he had entered the kings' presence, he bowed

down before him and he saith unto him, My lord king,
fifty years ago a man-child was born unto my wife
Amthelo, and when he was ten years old, we went on the
new Moon to worship our ancestral god when my son
wandered off into the desert and was lost.

3. But he was found by the people of the desert and raised

by them and he hath recently found his way back into my
house and I have received him with honor as my son.

4. Notwithstanding this, he did this day enter into the

room of my gods and destroy them and hath spoken
against our gods and against that ancient order which hath
been handed down from our first father whereunto we are
called.

5. Now, therefore, my lord king, send for him that he may

be judged according to our law that this evil may be put
away from among us.

6. The king thereupon sent three of his mighty men who

fetched me from my father's house and brought me
before the king.
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CHAPTER 39

WHEN I appeared before King Nimrod, he was seated

upon his throne in all his glory, but it was as darkness to
me.

2. At his right hand sat my father Terah and around them

sat the princes and noble ones of his realm.

3. And the king said unto me, What is this thing that thy
father saith unto me, that thou didst this day enter into
the room of his gods and destroy them and that thou hast
spoken against our gods and against that ancient order
which hath been handed down from our first father
whereunto we are called?

CHAPTER 40

I answered the king saying, Why dost thou go on in

wickedness to worship these dumb idols in which there is
no power even to save themselves?

2. Not only this, but thou hast led others to worship them
and to enter into that order which is most abominable in
the eyes of the Most High God, for your father form
whence it cometh is the devil and it is full of lies and
blasphemies and all manner of evil that men should lie
and murder to get gain.

3. Why wilt thou not serve the Most High God who
created all things in heaven and on earth, who hath
created these and holdeth the power to sustain thy life or
to destroy thee?

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4. O foolish, ignorant, wicked king, woe shall be unto thee
forever and ever for thou art the son of Perdition for it is
he who is thy father.

5. Thou hast corrupted the earth with thy sins and with
the sins of thy people who follow thee.

6. It was for entering into this wicked combination to get

gain that you ancestors were destroyed in the flood when
only eight souls were saved.

7. Wilt thou and thy people follow in their paths?

8. Then the wrath of the Most High God will descend

upon thee to smite thee from before his face.

9. Now put away these evil ways and turn unto the Most
High God and serve Him that there may be hope for thee.

10. But behold, I see that thine heart is hardened in

iniquity that there is no repentance for thee, for the evil
one hath sealed thee his; wherefore all thy ways shall
come to naught and thou and thy people shall be
destroyed from off the face of the earth.

CHAPTER 41

THEN I lifted up mine hands to heaven and prayed

saying, O Lord God, thou who sees all the ways of the
wicked and will bring every evil deed into judgment, look
upon these evil ones and destroy them that the whole
earth be not corrupted by them and brought to
destruction.

CHAPTER 42

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WHEN the king heard my words and the prayer which I
uttered, he ordered me to be cast into the prison house
until he had determined what to do with me.

2. And after ten days, the king gathered together all his
counselors and rehearsed unto them all things concerning
me.

3. And when he had rehearsed all things unto them, he

asked them, saying, What judgment shall such an one
receive who hath reviled the king and our gods and our
holy order?

4. And they returned judgment unto him saying, The man

who revileth the kind should be hanged from a tree until
he is dead and the tree then felled to the ground while all
the people shall shout, Thus shall it befall him who
revileth the king.

5. But this man hath not only reviled the king but also our
gods and our holy order and, according to our law, such
an one shall be cast into a furnace of fire until he be
consumed that naught remain of him in the earth.

6. Let therefore the fire be increased in the king's furnace

which is in Casdim where the king's bricks are made and
let this blasphemer be cast into the fire that he be
consumed.

CHAPTER 43

THE king so commanded and for three days and three

nights was the fire preparing in Casdim and at the end of
that time I was brought forth from the prison to be cast
therein.
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2. Nevertheless, while I was in the prison the Lord sent
His angels to minister unto me and to comfort me and
they said unto me, Fear not, Abram, for thy work is not
yet finished for thou shalt yet become the father of many
nations and thou shalt preach the gospel in far places,
even in the land of Egypt shalt thou declare the mysteries
of thy God.

3. And though they cast thee into the furnace, is not the
Lord able to deliver thee therefrom?

4. For through thy deliverance shall many be brought to

bow down and worship the Lord thy God and forsake the
evils of Nimrod.

CHAPTER 44

THEREFORE, I came forth from the prison confident in

the power of my God and in His promise that I should be
delivered from the fire.

2. But as I came forth, the astrologers of the king looked

upon me and by the power of Satan they recognized me,
for they saw me clothed in light.

3. And they cried out unto the king saying, O king of all
the earth, surely this is the man of whom we spake unto
thee fifty years ago that he should rise up to overthrow
thy kingdom.

4. Wherefore was he not slain?

CHAPTER 45

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HEARING these words, the king was greatly troubled,
and calling my father Terah before him, he exclaimed, Is
this then thy son who was to have been slain?

2. And what child then did I slay at his birth?

3. Speak now the truth and thou shalt go free; but if thou
speakest not the truth, thou shalt die with thy son.

4. And Nimrod caused my father to swear concerning the

matter.

CHAPTER 46

AND my father answered the king saying, My lord king, I

am guilty.

2. For because of my tender feelings toward my son, I did

substitute for him the son of my concubine who was born
on the same night.

3. The king's wrath mounted and in his anger he cried,

Who advised thee to do this thing?

4. Surely that man shall die.

5. My father, being terrified at the kings' anger said, I was

my son Haran who so advised me.

6. Now Haran had not advised my father of anything, but

the Spirit of the Lord had wrought upon my father that he
was loathe to give me up to the king.

7. Nevertheless, Haran was privy to what my father had

done and Haran was one of the believers in the true God
of heaven, but his heart was not firm nor his faith sure.
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8. Wherefore, Haran said in his heart, If Abram be
delivered from the furnace, then shall I know that the
God of Abram is indeed the true God.

9. Wherefore, Haran wavered in his faith and his

confidence waxed not great in the Most High God, but
my confidence was secure, for I knew that it rested upon
the Rock of my salvation and they the word of God
faileth not.

CHAPTER 47

NOW when the king heard the words of my father, he

caused that Haran should also be taken with me and,
leading us to the vale of Casdim, they stripped us of all
our clothing and bound us with cords and cast us into the
fire.

2. Now Haran, because his faith was not perfect in the

Lord his God, was consumed in the fire that no trace of
his body remained, but my faith remained firm in the
Lord and He sent His angels to sustain me and release me
from my bonds and I was three days and three nights in
the furnace with the angels, conversing with them and
beings instructed by them.

CHAPTER 48

AFTER the third day, the king sent his servants to govern
the fire that it might again be used for making brick.

2. But when they came up to the furnace, behold, I was

sitting therein conversing with the angels whom God had
sent.

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3. Therefore, the servants of the king, being greatly
astonished, went and told him of this matter, but he
would not believe them.

4. However, when the men persisted in their tale and

showed great consternation, King Nimrod himself came
unto the furnace, but he angels had departed and I sat
alone in the flames.

5. When he saw me therein unconsumed, the king cried

out in alarm, O Abram, art thou a sorcerer greater than
ours that thou shouldst live in the flames unconsumed?

6. But I answered him, Not so, O king, but the God of

heaven who is the true god above all hath sent his angels
unto me and hath preserved me from this fire.

7. Being much amazed the king exclaimed, Come forth

then from the fire for I see that no power of mine can
harm thee.

CHAPTER 49

WHEREUPON, I ascended from the furnace and stood

before the king and his counselors who examined my
closely but, behold, even mine hair was not singed.

2. Wherefore, the king caused garments from his own

wardrobe to be brought and I was clothed therein and he
caused me to be seated upon a throne at his right hand
where my father was wont to sit and he said unto me,
What of Haran thy brother who was cast into the furnace
with thee?

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3. Did the angels carry him away to some far place that he
might be saved?

4. But I replied unto him, Nay, but the faith of my brother

was not perfect in the Most High God; wherefore he was
consumed in the flames.

5. Upon hearing this, the king marveled and permitted me

to speak in his court concerning the Most High God and
the redemption which should be wrought in behalf of
those who believed on his name.

6. Nevertheless, the heart of the king was not changed,

for he gloried in power and he thought to learn from my
power by permitting me to speak.

7. But about three hundred men of those who sat in the

king's court were converted unto the Lord and followed
no more after the evil order of Nimrod, wherefore, they
were cast out of the king's presence; but as for me, the
king gave me many gifts and sent me away in peace and
many were joined unto the believers in the Lord from that
day.

8. For having heard of my salvation from the fire,

multitudes came to my father's house to hear of the God
who could do such mighty things and many were
converted unto the truth.

CHAPTER 50

NOW, among the believers were Lot, the son of Haran,

and Haran's daughters, Milcah and Sarai.

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2. Milcah was fair, but Sarai was beautiful above all
women.

3. Her face was as that of an angel filled with light, her

cheeks as two roses in full bloom, her hair as spun gold
which men treasure above all, her eyes as pools of blue
reflecting the glory of God's sky, her nose delicate and
lovely, and her countenance truly was fair as the sun.

4. Her breasts like two mountains rising above the plain

of Shinar were fair to behold, and her complexion truly
like the clouds in purity.

5. Her arms were comely, her hands perfect and delightful

to behold, always in the service of those in need and quick
to hasten to the service of the Lord her God.

6. Her palms were lovely, unmarred by her constant labor,

her fingers long and slender.

7. Her feet were comely and always set in the path of

truth.

8. Her thighs were wellrounded and soft, yet never failing

to sustain her in her labor of love in behalf of the servants
of God.

9. Truly no maiden was fairer than Sarai, the daughter of

Haran, for her beauty was greater than all other women
and she excelled them all.

10. But with her beauty was great wisdom and perfect
faith in the Lord and constant service in behalf of the
saints, for her hands never cease from blessing the people
of God.

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11. Wherefore, my brother Nahor took Milcah, the
daughter of Haran, to wife, but I Abram, took Sarai at the
direction of the Lord and I found great joy in her.

CHAPTER 51

BUT, behold, Satan was not content to have me continue

to disrupt his kingdom in peace; therefore, he sent a
dream unto Kingdom Nimrod in which the king did see
that I should be the destruction of himself and of his
kingdom.

2. Moreover, it was shown the king in his dream that three

of his own household, even Zeptah, Lilith, and Nefritiri,
daughters to Onitah, the son of Nimrod, who were
virgins, had joined the believers of the Most High God.

3. When the king awoke from his sleep, he was angry and
he caused that I, with these three virgins, Zeptah, Lilith,
and Nefritiri, should be seized and bound and carried to
Photiphar's hill at the head of the plain of Olishem to be
sacrificed unto the god of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

4. And these three virgins did the priest of Pharaoh offer

up upon the altar and they died singing praises to the
Lord and bearing witness to the truth, wherefore, they
shall be blessed forever for they have entered into the rest
of the Lord.

CHAPTER 52

AND when these virgins were slain, the priests of

Pharaoh took me also and laid me upon the altar to slay
me. But I cried unto the Lord my God for I knew that my
mission was not yet ended.
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2. And the Lord heard my voice and sent His angel to
loose the cords wherewith I was bound.

3. And I saw the Lord seated upon His throne and He

said to me, Abram, Abram, behold, my name is Jehovah,
and I have heard thee and have come down to deliver
thee and to take the away from the father's house and
from all thy kindred into a land which is unknown to thee,
a land which I have promised unto Noah should be an
eternal inheritance unto the promised seed.

4. Behold, I will lead thee by mine hand and will put upon
thee my name that thou shalt bear the priesthood of the
fathers and the power thereof.

5. As it was with Noah, so shall it be with thee that

through thy ministry and the ministry of thy seed bearing
this priesthood, my name shall be known in the earth
forever, for I am thy God.

6. And the Lord broke down the altar of the idol gods by
an earthquake and smote their priests that they were all
destroyed.

CHAPTER 53

BUT I hastened to my father's house where all the

believer were gathered, fasting and praying for me and I
said unto them, Up, for this day we shall depart from this
city that the Lord may visit it in wrath and vengeance.

2. Wherefore, all the believers gathered together and

followed me out of the city to my camp.

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3. And we struck our tents and departed from the land of
Shinar to go to the city of Shalom to confer with Father
Shem.

4. And my father also, seeing that the king's face would be

set against him, gathered together his goods and followed
after me.

5. We journeyed slowly, for I had with me many souls,

both women and children and women with child.

CHAPTER 54

WHEN at length we arrived at the city of Shalom, Father

Shem came forth to greet us, bearing bread and wine
which he blessed and gave to us and he said unto me,
Blessed art thou, Abram, for the Most High God hath
multiplied thee and behold, thy seed shall be even as the
sand upon the seashore without number.

2. Go to now with this great multitude into the land of

Canaan for unto thee and thy seed will I give this land for
an everlasting inheritance, saith the Lord God Almighty.
Amen.

CHAPTER 55

THUS we departed from the presence of Shem and

moved to the vicinity of Ludor which city we
denominated Haran.

2. And we dwelt in the suburbs of Haran for three years

for there was much pasture there and a space large
enough for the multitude which accompanied me.

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3. And I preached the gospel in Haran and many souls
were added unto the faithful in that place.

CHAPTER 56

AND there was a famine in the land, but the land of

Haran was blessed for our sakes that the famine there was
light.

2. But at the end of three years, the famine abated

throughout the land; wherefore lot, my brother's son, and
I went before the Lord in prayer after the manner of the
ancients, and in answer to our prayer the Lord appeared
unto me and said, Arise, Abram, and take Lot with thee
and all who follow after thee, for I have purposed to take
thee out of Haran and to make of thee a minister to bear
my name in a strange land which I will give unto thy seed
after thee for an everlasting possession when they hearken
to my voice.

3. For I am the Lord thy God.

4. I dwell in the heavens; the earth is my footstool for I

shall surely walk upon it when I come to redeem my
people from their sins.

5. My name is Jehovah and I know the end from the

beginning; therefore, my hand shall be over thee and I will
make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee above
measure and make thy name great among all nations and
thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in
their hands they shall bear this ministry and priesthood,
even the priesthood of the fathers after the Holy Order of
God, unto all nations.

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6. And I will bless all them, even as many as shall receive
this gospel through thy name, for they shall be called after
thy name, even the seed of Abram, as though they were
the seed of thine own flesh, and they shall rise up and
bless thee as their father.

7. For I will bless them who bless thee and curse them
who curse thee.

8. In thee, through the priesthood which thou barest, and

in thy seed, through thy priesthood which they shall bear
which cometh down from the fathers, shall all the families
of the earth be blessed with the blessings of the gospel
which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.

9. For I give thee this promise, that thy seed shall sprinkle
all nations that through them the right to this priesthood
may encompass all mankind, that all may be brought into
the covenant through obedience to the law and
ordinances of the gospel.

CHAPTER 57

NOW when the Lord had ceased speaking with me, I

praised the Lord saying, Thy servant hath sought thee
earnestly; now have I found thee.

2. Thou didst send thing angels to deliver me from death

many times; shall I not do all things which the Lord my
God requireth of me?

3. Blessed art thou, O Lord, who bestowest thy love

without measure upon the righteous but hatest all iniquity.

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4. But I have kept thy statutes to walk therein and have
received thine ordinances unto myself, wherein thou hast
blessed me with the Spirit of knowledge and truth.

5. For my part, I will love thee freely with all my heart and
soul.

6. I will cleave to thine holy law to not turn aside

therefrom in all thou hast commanded.

7. I have learned through the gift of thine Holy Spirit that

no man is able to choose his own way nor direct his own
steps for all such will fall into the pit.

8. In thine hand is the shaping of each man's soul which

thou hast foreordained to conform to the image of thy
Son.

9. Wherefore, I will embrace the Son and call upon God

for mercy for evermore. Amen.

CHAPTER 58

THEREFORE, I took Sarai and Lot and all my family

and all Lot's family and all the souls who had joined us in
Ur and in Haran who would come and we departed out of
the land of Canaan.

2. But my father had departed not from his idolatry;

wherefore, he remained in the land of Haran and Nahor
also remained with some others who departed not from
the truth of the living God.

CHAPTER 59

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WHEN we had come into the land of Canaan, I built an
altar in the plains of Moreh and offered sacrifice unto the
Lord.

2. And the Lord appeared unto me and said This is the

land which I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee
forever.

3. I will make thy seed like the stars of heaven and I will
give unto them for an inheritance all the land which
belongeth unto the Canaanites for surely I will destroy
them from off the face for the land when their
wickedness is full.

4. Wherefore, I praise the Lord for His mercy and we

departed from that place and journeyed toward Bethel.

CHAPTER 60

AND when I reached Hebron, I tarried there for two

years, but the famine again waxed great in the land.

2. Hearing that there was no famine in Egypt, I

determined to journey into that land, remembering the
word of the Lord unto me in Ur that I should declare the
mysteries of my God in the land of Egypt.

3. And, behold, the Lord blessed us on our journey that it

was made light unto us and we journeyed until we reached
the Kirmyon, one of the branches of the river of Egypt,
where we rested form our journey for a season, for here
the famine was not so severe.

4. But remembering the word of the Lord my God unto

me, when we were recovered from our journey, I

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determined to move forward across the seven branches of
the river of Egypt into the heart of the country of the
Egyptians.

CHAPTER 61

BUT on the night before I entered into Egypt, I dreamed

a dream.

2. And behold, in my dream I saw a cedar and a palm tree

and the branches of the palm tree were wrapped around
the cedar.

3. Suddenly, a group of men approached, seeking to cut

down the cedar and leave the palm tree to stand alone.

4. But the palm tree cried out saying, Cut not down the
cedar for whosoever seeketh to fell it shall find the curse
of God resting upon him.

5. So the men desisted and the cedar was spared by the act
of the palm tree.

CHAPTER 62

WHEN the dream was ended, I awoke from my sleep and

wondered at it.

2. Wherefore, I went before the Lord in prayer and

besought him saying, O Lord, show me the interpretation
of this dream which I have had this night.

3. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, Sarai thy wife is a
beautiful woman to look upon above all the women of the
earth.

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4. Therefore, it shall come to pass that when the
Egyptians shall see her, they will say, She is his wife, and
they will seek to slay thee for the sake of obtaining thy
wife.

5. Let Sarai thy wife, therefore, say unto them, He is my

kinsman, and thy soul shall live.

6. For thou art the cedar, O Abram, and Sarai is the palm
tree and this is the interpretation of the dream; for
through the act of thy wife, thou shall be saved and the
way will be opened for thee to preach the mysteries of
godliness in the court of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, for these
Egyptians are thy kindred of the seed of Eber, and it is
My will that the truths of the everlasting gospel should be
brought to them.

CHAPTER 63

NOW I had heard while I dwelt in Haran that some of

seed of Eber had entered into Egypt and driven the seed
of Ham to the south and taken possession of the land.

2. But these followed not after the God of their father

Eber, but worshipped idol gods, even as did my father
Terah, but they followed not after the abominations of
Nimrod.

3. Now these Hebrew were of the seed of Hadoram, the

son of Joktan, the son of Eber.

4. And Joktan was the brother of Peleg.

5. And Eber was the son of Salah, the son of Arphaxad,

the son of Shem.

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6. Wherefore, the Lord had sent me to preach the gospel
unto these who had departed from the god of their
fathers.

CHAPTER 64

WHEREFORE, I awakened my wife Sarai and I said unto

her, I have had a dream of the Lord.

2. Tell it to me, she said, that I may know what it is.

3. Therefore, I related unto her the dream and all that the
Lord had said to me concerning it and I added, When the
men of the land shall inquire of thee saying, Who is this
who accompanieth thee, say unto them simply, He is my
kinsman.

4. Thus shall my soul live and the Lord will use their love
for thee as a means whereby the gospel shall be preached
among them.

5. Fear not to do this thing for they will neither defile

thee, contrary to thy covenants, nor slay me, but all shall
come to pass to the glory of our God.

CHAPTER 65

SARAI, my wife, was fearful when she heard of the

danger through which we must pass and wept that night
before the Lord, but she placed her trust in Him and was
comforted by His Holy Spirit.

2. The next day we moved on across the seven branches

of the river and proceeded toward Foan where Pharaoh
dwelt.

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3. But I kept Sarai hidden until we reached Foan, for it
was in the home of Pharaoh that the Lord purpose to use
her great beauty to open the heart of Pharaoh unto the
work of God.

4. When we reached the city of Foan, three of Pharaoh's

officers met us and I brought Sarai forth to sit at my right
hand while I gave them audience.

5. And according to the word of the Lord, while I

attempted to explain unto them our having come there
because of the famine in the land of Canaan and that we
sojourned among them, they kept bestowing compliments
upon Sarai for her great beauty and wisdom and the luster
of her countenance.

CHAPTER 66

WHEN the men departed from me, they went directly

into the presence of Pharaoh and when they had eaten
with him, he had good wine brought forth.

2. While they drank together, they began to speak unto

him of what had transpired, but all they could speak of
were the beauties of Sarai.

3. How beautiful is the woman Sarai, they said, who

sitteth at Abram's right hand.

4. How comely is the shape of her face; how delicate and

finespun are her tresses.

5. How beautiful her eyes. How delicate is her nose and

the whole luster of her countenance.

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6. How fair are her breasts and how comely with all is her
complexion.

7. How comely, too, are her arms and how perfect her
hands.

8. How pleasing are her hands to behold; how lovely her

palms, how long and slender her fingers.

9. How comely are her feet. How wellrounded her thighs.

10. None of the maidens and none of the brides that enter
the bridechamber are fairer than she.

11. Her beauty is greater than all other women and she
excels them all.

12. Moreover, along with all this beauty, she hath great
wisdom and the workmanship of her hands is fair indeed.

CHAPTER 67

WHEN he heard these words, Pharaoh lusted after Sarai

and he sent his servants to fetch her to him.

2. Knowing it to be the will of the Lord, I let her go

although mine heart was grieved within me.

3. When Pharaoh saw her, his lust grew within him, for he
was overcome by her beauty and he took her into his
household as his wife and sent men to slay me that I
might not rise up to claim her.

4. But Sarai, seeing these things said unto Pharaoh, He is

but my kinsman; wherefore, Pharaoh called back his men
and my life was spared.
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CHAPTER 68

BUT Lot and I and all our household spent that night in
prayer before the Lord for Sarai that she might
accomplish her mission and that she might not be defiled
contrary to her covenants.

2. And I stood with mine arms stretched out toward

heaven after the Holy Order of God and I said, Blessed
art thou, O Lord the Most High God, Lord of all worlds
and Lord and Ruler over all things.

3. I know that thou dost rule over all the kings of the
earth, executing judgment upon them in righteousness
even as thou didst save me from the evil designs of the
mighty King Nimrod.

4. Now do I complain before thee concerning Pharaoh of

Foan, king of Egypt, who hath violently abducted my wife
Sarai from me.

5. Wreak justice upon him in my behalf and let me behold

thine hand wax mighty against him and against all his
household and let him not be able this night to defile my
wife contrary to her covenants.

6. Let them come to know, O Lord, that thou art the

Lord of all the kings of the earth and the Ruler of all men,
for this cause did I suffer Sarai to go among them
according to Thy counsel.

CHAPTER 69

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AND God hearkened unto my prayer and withheld His
spirit from the Egyptians that none of them were able to
come at their wives that night.

2. In the morning, consternation reigned throughout the

land of Egypt, for no man had been able to lie with his
wife all that night.

3. Pharaoh also was greatly perplexed, for although his

lust toward Sarai had grown throughout the night, he had
been unable to satisfy that lust because of the curse of
God which rested upon him.

4. Therefore, he summoned all of his wise men and the

physicians of his household, but none could heal him and
all had suffered the same affliction.

CHAPTER 70

THEN the Spirit of the Lord fell upon Sarai and she said,
My lord, it is indeed a sad matter that this affection should
be upon thee.

2. My kinsman Abram is a man full of wisdom and of the

Spirit of our God.

3. Send for him, therefore, and he shall tell thee how to be

delivered from these bonds that thou mayest freely take
me to thyself.

4. Now this he said at the direction of the Lord our God

and the Lord softened Pharaoh's heart that the hearkened
unto her words and he sent Shulem, one of his chief
ministers, unto my camp.

CHAPTER 71
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WHEN Shulem arrived in camp, he was, according to my
directions, let to the tent of Lot, and when he had entered
the tent, he bowed before Lot and said, My lord Pharaoh
and all the males of the land of Egypt have been cursed
that they are unable to come at their wives.

2. But it hath been told Pharaoh by his handmaiden Sarai

that her kinsman Abram is a man full of wisdom and of
the Spirit of your God.

3. Let him, therefore, come and lay his hands upon my

lord Pharaoh and pray for him that he may be healed and
live.

4. But Lot said to him, As long as his wife Sarai remains

with the king, my uncle Abram will not be able to pray for
him.

5. Be off thou and tell the king to release the woman to

her husband.

6. Then he will pray for him and he will be healed.

CHAPTER 72

WHEN Shulem heard these words, he was amazed and he

went straightway to the king.

2. My lord king, said he, This curse hath come on account

of Sarai the wife of Abram.

3. Let Sarai be but restored to her husband Abram and

this curse will be lifted from off all the males of Egypt.

4. Upon hearing these words, the king asked Sarai saying,

Is this thing so?
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5. Yea, my lord, she replied, and it is done that thou
mightest behold the power of God.

6. For when thine heart lusted after me, thou shouldst

have asked and not taken me by force.

7. But this is done that the glory of God might be

revealed that thou shouldst turn from the worship of
dumb idols to the worship of the true and living God.

CHAPTER 73

HEARING these words, Pharaoh summoned me to him

and when I entered his presence he asked, What is this
that hath been done?

2. For I have taken Sarai to wife while she was yet your
wife and for this thing a curse hath fallen upon me and all
males in the land of Egypt.

3. Therefore, pray for me that this curse may be removed

from us.

4. According to Pharaoh's request, I laid mine hands upon

him and prayed over him and he and all the males of
Egypt were healed.

CHAPTER 74

WHEN the king had been blessed, he was that he had

recovered and he praised the Lord for his recovery.

2. Wherefore, I took him into his garden and baptized

him in the name of the Lord and all his household with
him.

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3. And when I had blessed him again, Sarai came before
him and he knew that he had been healed for the Spirit of
God fell upon him with this testimony and the witness
thereof was sure.

CHAPTER 75

THEN Pharaoh arose and praised the Lord and

proclaimed to all his people that they should worship the
Most High God who had healed them.

2. And he desired to enter into a covenant of eternal

brotherhood with me that I should be his father and he
should be my son.

3. Wherefore, I said unto Pharaoh, Put forth thine hand

upon my thigh and I will make thee swear before the
Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt be true
to me and thine heirs to mine heirs forever, and I shall
receive thee unto myself to be my son and brother to
inherit all the blessings of mine house and to bear my
priesthood forever.

4. Wherefore, Pharaoh put his hand upon my thigh and

swore to me according to this oath.

5. And when he had sworn, Lot sealed him mine that he

should be my son in time and eternity and Pharaoh
rejoiced therein.

CHAPTER 76

AND the king clothed me in his own robes and seated me

upon his throne, placing his own crown upon my head
and his scepter in mine hand.

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2. And I did teach him and his people in all the mysteries
of godliness from first to last.

3. For Pharaoh did introduce me into the temple which

had been built by the fathers, commenced by Father Seth
and completed by Father Shem after the great flood and
therein I did officiate in the rites and ordinances of the
house of the Lord.

4. And Pharaoh made all matters right with Sarai, and he

blessed her with the outpouring of his spirit and she was
blessed in his presence.

5. And he gave unto her Hagar, his own daughter, also, to

be her companion and to Hagar he gave many gifts.

6. And I was seven years in the land of Egypt teaching the

gospel and administering unto Pharaoh and his household
and all the Egyptians the blessings, rites, and ordinances
of the gospel with the power thereof.

7. And I established among them the order of the Fathers

and the priesthood thereof until the name of Jehovah was
glorified throughout the land of Egypt.

8. And I taught the people the nature of the heavens and

of the earth and the plan of salvation and the blessings of
the Lord unto those who serve him in purity of heart and
to believe on the Son of God who should come to make
an atonement for their sins.

9. And so great was the power of God among us that in

time all of the Egyptians had turned from their idolatry to
the worship of the true God and I and my people had
cause to rejoice in the fruits of labors.
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AT the end of seven years, the Lord visited me and he

said unto me, Blessed art thou, Abram, servant of the
Most High, for thy joy shall be great in my mansion with
this multitude which thou hast brought unto me;
wherefore, thy name shall no more be called Abram but
Abraham shalt thou be called, which is by interpretation,
Father of a Multitude.

2. Moreover, thy wife Sarai shall no longer be called by

that name, but Sarah shall she be called, which signifieth a
Queen.

3. For Sarah have I chosen and appointed to be thy queen

of queens for from her shall issue the promised seed, even
him who shall be thine heir.

4. Behold, the day cometh when the seed of Ham shall

again rule in this land and at that day thy seed shall be in
bondage to them, but I will raise up a prince from among
the Egyptians who shall lead them out of bondage and
they shall inherit the land of Canaan, even that land which
I have promised unto thee and to thy seed after thee for
an everlasting inheritance.

5. Moreover, from the loins of thine heir shall proceed the

Messiah, even the Son of God, who shall walk upon the
earth ministering to the poor and lowly, who shall be
lifted up that the price might be paid for the original sin
of Adam and for the sins of all mankind, that all who will
believe on His name and receive His ordinances and keep
His commandments should not perish but inherit
everlasting life.

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6. Moreover, in the last days I will raise up out of the loins
of thine heir a choice seer through whom the fullness of
my gospel shall be restored to the earth and all things shall
be restored as in the beginning.

7. For upon him shall rest the priesthood of his fathers

and he shall commence the organization of that holy
order which was in the beginning of the world which shall
be consummated before the Son of God shall walk again
upon the earth.

8. These promises are thine, my son, and I say unto thee,

Thou shalt be exalted and dwell with me in the mansion
of my Father.

9. Now take thy people and return into the land of

Canaan, for there have I a mission for thee and there shall
the promises come to pass in thy behalf.

CHAPTER 78

WHEN I had received this word of the Lord and He had

departed from me, I went unto Pharaoh and told him that
I must depart from his realm as the Lord had a work for
me to do in the land of Canaan.

2. Though he was loathe to see me go, Pharaoh bowed to

the will of God and appointed men from his own
bodyguard to escort me to the borders of Egypt and he
gave me gifts of cattle and silver and gold and fine cloth
and precious jewels of every kind.

CHAPTER 79

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SO I went up out of Egypt and Lot accompanied me who
had taken three wives while in Egypt, namely, Jennifer,
daughter of Eliezer of Damascus, Deborah, daughter of
Kumen who had come out of the city of Ur, and Asterah,
daughter of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

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 The Writings of
Abraham II
from the papyri found in Egypt
1831

Part 2:
Chapter 80 – 160
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CHAPTER 80

TRAVELING slowly and stopping often to camp upon

our way, we eventually reached Bethel, where yet stood
and altar that I had built there at the first.

2. I restored it to its perfect form and offered sacrifices

thereon to the Most High God.

3. And I called there upon the name of the Lord of all

worlds and offered praise to the name of God and blessed
god and gave thanks before Him for all the possessions
bestowed upon us and for the many souls we had won in
Egypt and for having brought us back safely from that
land.

CHAPTER 81

NOW after our departure from Egypt, a faction arose

among our people upon seeing the great wealth which
Pharaoh had entrusted to us, for they desired property
which they could call their own.

2. Lot also was among them, which thing grieved me

greatly, but seeing they would not be reconciled, we gave
unto them a portion of the common property and they
departed from us under Lot's direction and settled in the
Valley of the Jordan River.

3. There they went from place to place as their flocks

needed pasture until they reached the city of Sodom
where they mingled with the inhabitants and became one
with them.

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4. Lot also built a house in Sodom and settled there, but
of all that company that went out from us, only Lot
maintained his integrity and did not violate the covenants
of his priesthood nor bow to heathen idol gods.

5. Nevertheless, Lot did not walk perfectly in the way of

the Fathers for he dwelt not among the people of God
but built his own house and he coveted his own property
that he should govern it rather than holding all things
common with the saints.

6. Nevertheless, Lot did continue to serve the Lord and

the Lord loved him and his family and his property grew
very large.

7. But I was grieved in my heart that Lot had parted from

me for he had stood at my right hand and had been
instructed in a better way.

CHAPTER 82

MEANWHILE, I with my people dwelt in Bethel where

we did worship the Lord our God after the Order of the
Ancients and did strive diligently to establish the Holy
Order of God among us in ever increasing perfection.

2. Wherefore, we did banish from among us all

contention, all covetousness, all selfishness, and we were
of one heart and of one mind and dedicated in all our
service unto the Lord and held all things common, for no
man called anything his own.

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CHAPTER 83

ONE night God appeared to me in a vision and said, Go

up to the top of Hazor and lift up thine eyes and gaze
eastward and westward and southward and northward and
behold all this land for, behold, unto thee and to thy seed
after thee shall I give it for an everlasting inheritance.

2. The next day I ascended Hazor as the Lord had

commanded me and I gazed upon all the land from the
river of Egypt unto Lebanon and Shenir, from the Great
Sea unto Hauran, the whole area of Seir as far as Kadish,
the whole of the great wilderness which lieth east of the
Hauran and the region of Shenir as far as the Euphrates.

3. And as I beheld the land, the Lord my God spake in

mine heart, saying, Blessed Abraham, I have chosen thee
to stand at the head of a multitude.

4. Wherefore, unto thee and to thy seed after thee I will

give this land, even all that thine eye beholdeth, that ye
may possess it forever.

5. And I shall multiply thy seed like the dust of the earth,
for even as no man can count the dust of the earth, so
shall they seed be without number.

6. Rise up, now, and compass this land.

7. Behold the length of it and the breadth of it, for I will

give it unto thee and to thy seed after thee forever.

CHAPTER 84

EVEN so, I, Abraham, descended from the high place

and set out to behold all the land.
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2. I commenced at the river of Egypt and came to the
shore of the lake beside which I traveled until I reached
the mountain of the ox.

3. Thence, I turned from the great lake which is by

Sodom and walked across the breadth of the land until I
reached Euphrates.

4. Thence, I journeyed even unto the Red Sea which I

followed unto its head.

5. Thence, I went onward to the river of Egypt again,

having compassed the whole land according to the
command of the Lord.

6. When I had completed my journey, I bowed down and

praised the Lord and returned safely unto my family
where I found everyone well.

CHAPTER 85

NOT many days thence, under the direction of the Lord,

I departed from Bethel and settled in the plains of Mamre
on the northeast of Hebron and there I built an altar and
offered an offering unto the Most High God and
dedicated that land unto the Lord.

2. And I held a great feast unto the Lord for the time of
the Passover had come and together with all the men of
mine household, Invited Mamre, Aneram, and Eshcol, my
friends who were wanderers in the land as we were and
who had joined the believers in the Most High God, into
the Solemn Assembly.

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3. And after this all my people ate and drank together with
me before the Lord.

CHAPTER 86

AT this feast, the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me and

laying aside my garments, I danced before the Lord and
sang unto the Lord a new song, saying, Blessed are Thou,
O Lord, who hast given unto man knowledge of Thy
ways that he might understand Thy truths and see Thine
abundant mercies.

2. Blessed art Thou, O God, who art full of compassion

and grace, for the greatness of Thy power, the abundance
of Thy truth, the profusion of Thy mercies over all Thy
works.

3. Rejoice the soul of Thy servant in Thy truth and

through Thy righteousness make me clean before Thee.

4. Blessed art Thou, O Lord, for Thou has placed in the

mouth of Thy servant the sacred words of power that I
might stand as Thy minister continually that I may confer
Thy grace upon Thy children and that I myself may return
to Thy presence.

CHAPTER 87

SARAH also rose up, full of the Holy Ghost, and danced
and sang before the Lord.

2. And this is the song of Sarah: In Thee, O Lord, will my

soul be raised up for Thou hast bestowed upon me Thy
grace whereby I am restored to Thy presence for I have
entered into thine holy house and received the sacred rites

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3. Surely in my tent at night I will sing songs of joy unto

the Lord as I am overshadowed by the priesthood and
lifted up in the foreshadowing of eternity.

4. Surely in receiving Thy Spirit through the

overshadowing of the priesthood, I have received
salvation.

5. Wherefore, in the midst of Thy people, those who

reverence Thine holy name, I will praise Thee and glorify
Thy name forever.

CHAPTER 88

MY wife Kadar also arose and proceeded to dance and

sing before the Lord.

2. And her song was: Bless the Lord, O my soul; exalt His
name among the people.

3. I will praise Thee, O Lord, upon my bed when the

wellsprings of my joy are opened up.

4. I will praise Thee at all times and seasons.

5. When the sun riseth upon the earth, I will praise Thine
holy name.

6. When in its ordered course, day reacheth its turning

point at the meridian, I shall not fail to praise Thee.

7. Again in the evening when the daylight departeth, I will

marvel at Thy wonders and glorify Thy name.

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CHAPTER 89

THEN rose up my wife Judith who danced and sang,

saying, Praise the Lord who hath shown me the wonders
of His ways.

2. For as I lay upon my bed enwrapped in the ecstasies of

the Holy Spirit, when the Spirit rushed into me, I saw the
vision of the Almighty and heard that which is unlawful to
be spoken.

3. Yea, O Lord, Thou hast visited me and I have heard

Thy wondrous secret and I know that it is true. Through
Thine Holy Spirit, through the rites of Thine holy
priesthood, through the glorious inner vision to which
Thou didst open my mind in the moment of passion,
Thou has caused a spring of knowledge to well up within
me, a fountain of strength and power, of loving kindness
and glory in my God.

4. Thou has put an end to the darkness of the world in me

and the splendor of Thy glory hath become in me an
eternal light.

5. Wherefore, I will praise Thy name forever and give

myself unto Thee.

CHAPTER 90

WHEN Judith had finished her song, all the congregation,

being filled with the Holy Ghost, arose to their feet and
began to dance and sing and praise the Lord and to
prophecy in His name.

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2. Some saw holy angels in our midst and others saw the
heavens opened and beheld God seated upon His throne
and all were filled with His Spirit and shouted praises to
the Lord in joyousness until dawn.

3. Then we all rose up before the Lord and praised His

name for this great outpouring and worshipped Him all
that day.

4. And we rejoiced in the grace of the Lord our God.

CHAPTER 91

PREVIOUS to this time, Amraphel, son of Nimrod, king

of Shinar, Chederlaomer, king of Elam, Arioch, king of
Capadocia, and Tidal, king of Goyim in Mesopotamia,
had waged war against Bera, king of Sodom, Birsha, king
of Gomorrah, Shinah, king of Admah, Shemeber, king of
Zeboiim, and the king of Bela.

2. They assembled for combat in the vale of Siddim and

the king of Shinar and his royal allies overcame the king
of Sodom and his confederates and imposed tribute upon
them.

3. For twelve years they paid their tribute to the king of

Shinar, but in the thirteenth year they revolted against
him.

4. In the fourteenth year the king of Shinar led forth all

his allies and they went up along the way of the
wilderness, attacking and plundering all who were
confederate with the king of Sodom.

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5. But the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king
of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela
came forth to battle and met Amraphel and his allies in
the vale of Siddim.

6. However, Amraphel and his allies prevailed against

them and Bera, king of Sodom turned and fled and
Birsha, king of Gomorrah fell into the slime pits which
were in the vale of Siddim and perished there.

7. The remainder of the kings fled unto the mountain

which was called Hanabal and tarried there in great fear.

CHAPTER 93

BUT one of Lot's servants who dwelt in his house

escaped and came to me in Hebron and told me that Lot,
my brother's son, had been taken with all his possessions,
but that he yet lived.

2. He showed me, moreover, the route which the kings

had taken toward the land of Damascus.

3. When I heard this news, mine heart melted within me

for Lot who had stood at my right hand had been as a
brother to me in the place of my brother Haran, who had
been slain in the Land of Shinar.

4. Oh, that Lot had stayed among the body of saints of

the Most High God, I thought, and not go off to possess
his own property apart.

5. Then these circumstances would never have befallen

him that he should be in the hands of Amraphel, son of
Nimrod, king of Shinar and his host.

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6. But as I thus mourned over Lot, the word of the Lord
came unto me, saying, Up, arouse thee, O Abraham. Take
three hundred and eighty of the young men of the
strength of thine house and also thy friends Aneram,
Eshcol, and Mamre each with one hundred and five of
the strength of his house and also Eliezer of Damascus
who is with thee in the tent and pursue after Amraphel,
son of Nimrod, king of Shinar, for truly I shall deliver his
hosts into your hands.

CHAPTER 94

WHEREFORE, we did according to all that the Lord had

commanded me, having all seven hundreds of men and
we pursued after them even unto the valley of Dan where
we found them encamped.

2. And falling upon them by night from all four

directions, we commenced the work of death and
continued wreaking slaughter among them and
discomforting them all that night.

3. And with the rising of the sun, they fled from before us
until they reached Hobah which is situated to the left of
Damascus where we did again overtake them and conquer
them.

4. There we did strip them of all that they had taken as

plunder and loot and likewise of all their won goods.

5. Lot also and his family we rescued from their hands

and restoring to him all his possessions and all that they
had taken from him as spoil, we restored him to his home
in peace.

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CHAPTER 95

WHEN the king of Sodom heard that I had returned

from the conquest of Amraphel, son of Nimrod, king of
Shinar, he came forth to meet me at the valley of Shaveh
which is west of the city of Shalom where Noah and
Melchizedek dwelt.

2. And Melchizedek brought forth bread and wine from

the city of Shalom unto the valley of Shaveh where we
were encamped.

3. And he being the high priest after the Order of the

Most High God, brake the bread and blessed it and he
blessed the wine also and he distributed them unto me
and those who were with me, and we partook and were
filled.

4. And Melchizedek lifted up his hands to heaven and

blessed me, and said, Blessed Abraham, thou art a man of
the Most High God, possessor of heaven and of earth,
wherefore, his name and priesthood shall not depart from
thee and thy seed after thee while the earth shall stand and
even in eternity shall it remain with thee.

5. And blessed is the name of the Most High God and

almighty His power, which hath delivered thine enemies
into thine hand.

6. And I, Abraham, gave into the hand of Melchizedek,

tithes of all I had taken, for he was the presiding high
priest after the Order of the Most High God, the first of
the fathers unto me, and he reigned under his father
Noah.

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CHAPTER 96

AND when the king of Sodom had come unto me, he

said unto me, My lord Abraham, give me the persons who
are not thine but who are with thee whom thou hast
rescued from the hand of Amraphel, son of Nimrod, king
of Shinar, but let all the property be left with thee.

2. But I said unto him, This day do I, Abraham, lift up

mine hand before the Most High God, before His holy
angels and before these witnesses who are with us and
declare that I will not take even so much as a thread or a
shoe's latchet which is not mine, lest thou shouldst say
that all Abraham's wealth cometh really from their
possession.

3. Only that which the young men who are with me have
eaten and that which Aneram, Eshcol, and Mamre, these
three stalwarts who went with me, have received as their
share shall be excepted of all that I took from Amraphel,
son of Nimrod, king of Shinar that was thine.

4. The rest I return freely unto thee.

5. Now go thy way in peace.

6. Thereupon, I returned all the possessions and all the

spoil and gave them unto the king of Sodom and I
released all the captives and sent them away rejoicing.

CHAPTER 97

AND when I had done this, Melchizedek again lifted up

his voice and blessed me saying, Blessed art thou,
Abraham, for the Most High God shall visit thee and shall

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bestow upon thee riches and honor and lands for an
everlasting possession because thou hast been true and
faithful to the covenants which thou hast entered before
Him.

2. Wherefore, thou shalt continue to increase, worlds

without end, and the glory of the Lord shall never depart
from thee. The blessings of thy Fathers shall rest upon
thee and thou shalt stand at the head and in thee and in
thy seed after thee, those who shall bear thy priesthood,
shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

CHAPTER 98

THEREWITH, I departed from Melchizedek, rejoicing in

his blessing, for he was a man of faith who wrought
righteousness and when a child he feared God and by his
faith he stopped the mouths of lions and quenched the
violence of fire when those of the evil combination
sought to destroy him from off the face of the earth.

2. Therefore, having been approved of God, he was

ordained a high priest after the order of the covenant
which God made with Enoch which is after the order of
the Firstborn, even our Father Adam.

3. For this holy order came not by man nor the will of
man, neither by father nor mother, neither by beginning
of days nor end of years, but of God.

4. For it was established in the beginning of the earth by

the Ancients of days, wherefore it is called the Order of
the Ancients, and it was delivered unto men from the
beginning by the calling of God's own voice according to
His own will through the voice of His Priesthood, unto as
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many as believed on His name and were faithful until they
had obtained.

CHAPTER 99

BEHOLD, these could transcend the veil, according to

the will of God, and commune with the General
Assembly and Church of the Firstborn in heaven and
many were caught up to be with them.

2. For God had sworn unto Enoch and unto his seed with
an oath by Himself the every one being ordained after this
order and calling should have power by faith to break
mountains, to divide the seas, to dry up waters, to turn
them out of their course, to put at defiance the armies of
nations, to divide the earth, to break every band, to stand
in the presence of God, to do all things according to His
will according to His command, subdue principalities and
powers, and this by the will of the Son of the Only
Begotten of the Father which was from before the
foundation of the world.

3. And men having this faith and coming up unto this

order of God could be translated and taken up into
heaven.

CHAPTER 100

NOW Melchizedek was a priest after this order which is

the Holy Order of God; therefore he obtained peace in
Shalom and was called the prince of peace.

2. And his people wrought righteousness and obtained

heaven for they sought for the city of Enoch which God
had before taken, separating it from the earth, having
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reserved it unto the latter days or the end of the world.

3. For God hath said and sworn with an oath that the
heavens and the earth should come together again and the
sons of God be tried even by fire.

4. And thus Melchizedek, having established

righteousness, was called the king of heaven by his people
or, in other words, the king of peace.

5. And they communed with those in the city of Enoch

and in the city of Peleg and had access to them and were
blessed all their days.

CHAPTER 101

AFTER these things God appeared to me in a vision and

he said unto me, Behold Abraham, it is ten full years since
thou camest into this land from Haran.

2. Two years didst thou remain then in the land, seven

years wast thou in Egypt and one year hath passed since
thy return from Egypt.

3. Now, number all that thou hast and see how it hath
increased to double that which went out with thee in the
day thou camest forth from Haran.

4. Therefore, fear not, for I am with thee and will be thine

help and the source of thy strength.

5. I will be thy shield and thine exceeding great reward

and thy wealth and thy possessions shall I increase
exceedingly.

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AND I said unto Him, My Lord God, truly my wealth

and my possessions have increased but, behold, Eliezer of
Damascus standeth as mine heir, whereas, prior to my
departure from the city of Shalom, Father Shem said
unto, Eliezer is a good and righteous man and he shall be
greatly blessed in time and in eternity, but he shall not be
thine heir, for another shall be thine heir who shall come
forth from the womb of thy wife whom thou shalt take in
the house of thy father for she is ordained to be thy queen
of queens and the mother of thine heir.

2. Wherefore then doth Sarah remain barren, having

neither son nor daughter?

3. Nay, replied God, fear not, for none shall be thine heir
save he that shall come forth from the womb of thy wife
Sarah for she is ordained to be thy queen of queens and
the mother of thine heir.

4. Therefore is her name called Sarah.

CHAPTER 103

AND the Lord took me out of the camp and He said,

Look now toward heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able
to number them.

2. And He said unto me, So shall thy seed be.

3. And I said unto him, Lord God, how wilt thou give me
this land for an everlasting inheritance?

4. And the Lord replied, Though thou wast dead, yet am I

not able to give it thee?
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5. And if thou shalt die, yet thou shalt possess it, for the
day cometh that the Son of Man shall live but how can he
live if he be not dead?

6. He must first be quickened.

7. And the Lord touched the eyes of mine understanding

that they were opened and I beheld the days of the Son of
Man, for I beheld Him ministering unto my seed, teaching
them the law of God, healing the sick, casting out devils
and doing many wonderful works.

8. I saw also the Son of Man lifted up upon the cross for
the sins of men; wherefore I wept for the wickedness of
man which could crucify the Son of God.

9. Nevertheless, I saw also that He should rise again from

the dead, wherein mine heart did rejoice and my soul
found rest in the knowledge that though I should die, yet
again in the flesh should I see God and dwell in the land
of mine inheritance.

10. For I saw also the days of the coming of the Son of
Man upon the earth in the last days when He shall descent
with ten thousands of His saints according to the
prophecy of Father Enoch and the earth shall be cleansed
by fire.

11. Then all shall rise to stand before God, both the just
and the unjust, to be judged according to their works.

CHAPTER 104

AND the Lord said unto me, I, the Lord thy God, saved
thee from the fire in the land of Shinar and from the hand

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of the wicked priest and from all the evil intentions of
king Nimrod and I brought thee into this land that I
might give it to thee as an everlasting inheritance.

2. Now, I knew that the word of the Lord was true.

Nevertheless, I desired to know more of this inheritance
which the Lord had provided me.

3. Wherefore, I said, Lord, how shall it be that I shall

inherit this land wherein I am a stranger?

4. And the Lord said unto me, Take me an heifer of three

years old and a she goat of three years old and a ram of
three years old and a turtle dove and a young pigeon.

5. Divide each of these in the midst and lay one half on

each side of an open place, except the birds thou shalt not
divide but lay one on each side.

6. Wherefore, I went and did according to all that the

Lord had commanded me and when the fowls came down
upon the carcasses, I drove them away.

7. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon me and lo, in the sleep was a great horror of
darkness.

8. And I cried unto the Lord, saying, O Lord, what

meaneth this great horror of darkness?

9. And the Lord said unto me, Know of a surety that thy
seed shall be a stranger in a land which shall not be theirs
and shall be in bondage to strangers, even to the seed of
Ham who shall again overrun the land of Egypt.

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10. And thy seed shall be afflicted and serve them four
hundred years.

11. But at that time, I shall judge the seed of Ham and thy
seed shall come up out of the land of Egypt with great
substance.

12. And as for thee, thou shalt die and go to thy fathers in
peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

13. But in the fourth generation thy seed shall come

higher again for the iniquity of the Canaanites is not yet
full.

CHAPTER 105

AND it came to pass that when the sun was down and it
was dark, behold, two personages passed between those
pieces which I had divided.

2. And their countenance was as fire such that I could

hardly look upon them and the one said to me, Behold, of
thy seed shall the Messiah come who shall redeem all
those who believe on His name and walk in His footsteps.
3. Wherefore, repent and call upon the name of the Son
all thy days that in the end thou mayest dwell with me in
my mansion.

CHAPTER 106

NOW when Sarah saw that she bare neither son nor
daughter, it grieved her heart.

2. And she said unto me, Take therefore Hagar, daughter

of Pharaoh, to be thy wife, for she is a woman now.

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3. And let her come into my bed and let her womb be
unto thee in the place of mine to raise up seed unto thee.

4. Hagar also was willing to enter this covenant and it was

according to the voice of the Spirit of God; wherefore,
Sarah gave Hagar to be my wife and Sarah and Hagar
were as one wife unto that the seed of Hagar might be
also the seed of Sarah.

5. For Hagar had been raised by Sarah and been taught by

her and had followed Sarah in ways of righteousness.

CHAPTER 107

AND when I came into unto Hagar in Sarah's bed, she

conceived.

2. And when Hagar saw that she had conceived, she

rejoiced greatly and began to be lifted up in pride and to
despise Sarah and she taunted Sarah, saying, Surely I am
better than thee for in all the years thy lord hath lain with
thee, thou hast not conceived, but lo, in this short time, I
have conceived from the seed of my lord.

3. And Sarah was grieved in her heart and she said unto
me, Surely Hagar hath wronged me and thou also hast
contributed to her wrong, for she hath spoken despitefully
to me in thy presence, yet thou hast done nothing to
correct her.

4. But I replied to Sarah, Surely Hagar is thy child for thou

hast instructed her from her youth.

5. Correct her, therefore, as seemeth thee good.

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CHAPTER 108

HOWEVER, when Sarah attempt to correct Hagar,

Hagar grew angry and determined to return unto her
father's people; wherefore, she departed into the
wilderness.

2. But an angel of the Lord met her by a well where she

stopped to rest and he said unto her, Hagar, daughter of
Sarah, who gave thee unto her husband Abraham and
took thee into her own bed that thou mightest raise up
seed unto her, why art thou thus fleeing into the
wilderness from the camp of Abraham?

3. And Hagar replied, I am returning to the land of my

father for it grieveth me to be bound to Sarah.

4. And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return unto

Sarah and be subject unto her for she is given to thee to
be a mother unto thee and this seed is hers as well as
yours.

5. The Lord will multiply thy seed exceedingly so that it

shall not be numbered for multitude and thou shalt bear a
son and shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord
hath heard thy prayers and answered them.

6. He will be a man of the desert and a man of war;

nevertheless, many shall join themselves unto him and his
people shall be great.

CHAPTER 109

HAGAR replied, What shall I say is the name of him who

beareth these glad tidings.

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2. And the angel replied, Beerlahairoi, for know thou that
God seest thee in all places withersoever thou shalt be.

3. And Hagar said, I know that God seest me, for He hath
this day sent His angel to minister unto me.

4. Wherefore, Hagar returned unto the tent of Sarah and

at the appointed time she bare unto me a son and I called
his name Ishmael, according to the word of the angel.

5. And I was four score and six years old when Hagar
bare Ishmael unto me.

CHAPTER 110

AT the end of thirteen years, the Lord appeared unto me

and He said unto me, Abraham, because thou hast been
faithful in all things unto me from the time thou wast
three years old, and behold, now thou art ninety and nine,
therefore, I will establish my covenant with thee for with
thee I shall commence a new dispensation of the gospel
that from this time forth all those who would be sealed
into me must be sealed into thee.

2. Wherefore, I will send Noah unto thee in the

tabernacle, and he will bestow upon thee the keys of this
priesthood, for the city of Melchizedek will I take up from
off the earth and there will be a new beginning in thee.

3. For I will greatly multiply thy seed and I will make them
my ministers that through thy priesthood all the peoples
of the earth shall be blessed.

4. Therefore, from this time forth shall every male child

among you be circumcised in that his foreskin shall be

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opened in token of the opening of his heart to the light of
the gospel.

5. And on the eighth day shall ye do it that ye may

remember that on the eighth day they shall be baptized
that the blessing of the gospel may come upon them.

6. This is according to the covenant I made with Adam in

the garden Eden, but I instructed Noah and Shem not to
administer this covenant unto thee that thou mightest
receive it in token of this new covenant which I make
with thee.

7. Although I gave these ordinances in the beginning unto

Adam, yet the sons of men have continually gone astray
from my precepts and have not kept mine ordinances
which I gave unto their fathers.

8. They have neglected the ordinance of baptism which I

commanded unto them in token of the burial of the
natural man and have ceased to receive the anointing
whereby they become kings and priests unto me.

9. Yea, they have turned from my commandments and

changed mine ordinances and have replaced baptism with
the washing of children which they call baptism.

10. But, behold, this is no baptism, for I will atone for the
fall of Adam; wherefore, little children are innocent until
they reach the age of accountability.

11. But the sons of men have rejected mine atonement

wherein I will offer Mine Only Begotten Son for the sins
of the world, for they say that the blood of righteous Abel
was shed for sins, thereby rejecting Me as their Savior.
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12. But thou hast upheld mine ordinances. Therefore, thy
seed shall sprinkle all nations, for thou shalt be a father of
many nations.

13. And thou shalt be fruitful and many nations shall

come of thee and kings of nations shall be of thy seed.

14. Moreover, ye shall not cut yourselves in your foreskins

after the manner of the heathen, for this is the lesser law
and applieth only to those who have had part of the
gospel cut off from that which they have received.

15. But your hearts are opened to the fullness of my

gospel wherefore your foreskins shall be opened.

16. For if it were profitable for you to be without a

foreskin, then would your father beget you in your mother
without a foreskin.

17. Take not away what God hath given.

18. But let your foreskins be opened, for this is the true
circumcision and it will be profitable unto you as a
covenant written in your flesh, which shall be an
everlasting covenant.

19. Your daughters also shall be circumcised upon the

marriage bed when the matrix is opened by the entrance
of her husband, for this is an holy ordinance, and it is
completed at the birth of her firstborn; wherefore it is
written that the firstborn which openeth the matrix is holy
because it is an instrument in the performance of an holy
ordinance.

20. Now, go into the tabernacle and fast and pray until

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Noah cometh to bestow upon thee the keys of which I
have spoken.

CHAPTER 111

WHEN the Lord had departed from me, I went into the
tabernacle and I remained there fasting and praying for
three days.

2. And at the end of that time Noah came to me and he

said, Hail, Abraham, for thou art highly favored of the
Lord.

3. Behold, I come to thee from the city of Enoch my

father to bestow upon thee the keys which I received
from Enoch many years ago, for thou shalt stand at the
head and thy posterity shall be without number and in
thee and in thy seed after thee shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed.

4. When Noah had departed from me, I rose up and was

circumcised by Eliezer and all the males of mine house
were circumcised with me, including my son Ishmael who
was thirteen years old at this time.

5. And I conferred upon my son Ishmael the Priesthood

of Elias and ordained him to be a priest that he might
minister before the Lord.

6. But Ishmael did not honor his priesthood, taking it to

be a light thing, which thing was a grief of heart unto me
for I knew that in heaven he was counted as having no
priesthood because he honored it not; wherefore, I did
not call upon him to act in the priest's office.

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AND the Lord appeared unto me in the plains of Mamre

and he said unto me, Behold, Ishmael shall not be thine
heir, neither Eliezer, for Sarah will I bless and I will give
thee a son of her.

2. She shall be the mother of nations and kings and

people shall be of her.

3. Then I fell upon my face before the Lord and I rejoiced

and I said unto Him, O Lord, it is a wondrous thing that
this promise should be fulfilled when I am an hundred
years old and Sarah is ninety.

4. And the Lord said, Prepare thine heart to receive it, and
he told me many secret things concerning the conception
of the child which are great mysteries to the
unenlightened, but the elect shall know them, and I
rejoiced therein.

CHAPTER 113

WHEN the Lord had told me these things, I thought of

my son Ishmael and I prayed, O God, grant that Ishmael
might live uprightly before Thee.

2. And the Lord God replied, Sarah thy wife shall bear
thee a son and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will
continue in him the covenant which I have established
with thee to be an everlasting covenant with his seed after
him.

3. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee.

4. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him a great

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nation.

5. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac whom Sarah

shall bear unto thee at this same time in the next year.

6. Then God left me and I saw Him ascent up into heaven

and mine heart rejoiced in the promises of the Lord unto
me.

CHAPTER 114

THREE months later the Lord sent unto me three of His

ministering angels who were holy men of god from the
city of Enoch.

2. For I was sitting at the door of my tent and I lifted up

mine eyes from my meditations and, behold, three men in
the distance were walking toward our camp.

3. And the Spirit of the Lord whispered unto me that they

were holy men of god who had a blessing for me;
wherefore, I rose up and ran to meet them; and, bowing
down before them, I led them unto Sarah's tent.

4. Taking water from Sarah, I washed their feet and

spreading a carpet under the tree which was at the door of
Sarah's tent, I spread cushions upon it and caused them to
sit down there.

5. And I called Eliezer and instructed him to send one of

the young men to fetch a young and tender calf and
supervise the preparation of it.

6. Sarah also supervised the young women in preparing

cakes and milk and cheese, mutton and beef to eat until
the calf was prepared.
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WHEN they had eaten, one of the holy men said unto
me, We shall return to thee nine months hence and,
behold, at that time Sarah shall bear a son.

2. Now, Sarah was listening at the door of the tent, and

when she heard these words, she laughed within herself,
knowing that she was past the age of bearing and I also
was very old.

3. But the holy man of God rebuked her, saying, Is

anything too hard for the Lord?

4. Surely when we return here nine months hence, thou

shalt bear a son.

5. Whereupon the three holy men of God entered with

me into Sarah's tent and blessed her.

6. And the Holy Spirit fell upon Sarah in mighty power in

the blessing and she conceived according to the word of
the man of God.

CHAPTER 116

THEN the three holy men of God departed from our

camp, and I walked with them to bring them on their way
toward Sodom.

2. And the one who had before spoken, said unto me,
Abraham, we are from the city of Enoch and are ordained
after the holy order of God.

3. We have come not only to bless Sarah that thou

mightest have seed raised up unto thee out of her, but
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also on a mission which bringeth us sorrow.

4. Nevertheless, the word of the Lord came unto me

saying, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I will
do?

5. Nay, surely for his integrity he shall know what I am

about to do.

6. Wherefore, Abraham, hast thou looked upon the

iniquities of Sodom and her sister cities?

7. For they have provoked the Lord with their

abominations.

8. For four times in each year they gather together to sing

and dance before their idol gods and when they are
dancing every man layeth hold upon the wives and
daughters of his neighbors and lieth with them and this
they do without authority from God, which thing is an
abomination in His sight.

9. But, behold, this is the least of their sins.

10. For no man is safe who entereth their city, for when a
stranger entereth there, they will take from him his goods
by force and they will abuse his body, for both men and
women will they bind and crowds of the Sodomites will
gather about them and lie with them by force until every
one who desireth to lie with them hath done so.

11. Now it is a wicked thing that men or women should

be forced to lie with another against their will, but here
the whole city uniteth to force this wicked thing.

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12. Moreover, when they have stolen a man's goods and
abused his flesh, they will torture him and when they tire
of torturing him, they will leave him naked and without
food or water to die in the streets of their city and it is
forbidden by the law for anyone to help such an one by
giving him food or drink.

13. Moreover, the people of these cities have numerous

idol gods before which they practice every kind of
abomination without authority.

14. Wherefore, the Lord hath sent us to gather the

righteous out of the cities before they are destroyed.

15. So saying, the three embraced me and kissed me and

went on their way toward Sodom.

CHAPTER 117

BUT I remained a long time where they had departed

from me thinking on the things they had said, for it
grieved mine heart that these great cities with all their
inhabitants should be destroyed.

2. Wherefore, I, too, went down to the vicinity of Sodom

and I called upon the name of the Lord there.

3. And when He answered me out of heaven, I said unto

Him, O Lord God, merciful and kind, wilt thou destroy
the inheritances of the righteous because of the wicked?

4. Nay, O Lord, far be it from Thee to do this thing. Wilt

thou not spare the inheritances of the righteous?

5. Peradventure there may be fifty righteous in the city,

wilt thou in thine anger destroy the city and not spare the
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place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are in it?

6. Surely thou wilt not destroy the inheritances of the

righteous because of the wicked.

7. Such a judgment should never be passed according to

the justice of thine holy law which is in thy bosom.

8. And the Lord said, If I find in these cities fifty

righteous who keep the laws and precepts of God and
have not partaken of the abominations of the Sodomites,
then surely I will spare the whole country for their sake.

CHAPTER 118

NEVERTHELESS, I ventured to speak before the Lord

again, for I know that all His ways are just.

2. And I said unto Him, O Lord, suppose there shall lack

but five of the fifty righteous. Wilt thou destroy the whole
land for the lack of five men?

3. And He said, If there be fortyfive righteous in the land,

I will not destroy it.

4. And I spake unto the Lord again, saying, O Lord, I

know that I am yet but dust and ashes, for although I am,
by the testimony of thine own mouth, declared to be a
son of God, yet I am not yet glorified to be like thee.

5. Nevertheless, be not displeased with me when I plead

in behalf of the righteous; for suppose there shall be forty
righteous in the land?

6. And He said, I will not destroy it if I find there forty.

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7. Then I said, O Lord, thou hast been patient indeed
with thy servant; wherefore, I shall speak yet again before
thee, Suppose there shall thirty righteous be found there?

8. The Lord replied, I will not destroy it if I find thirty

there.

9. Then I spake again saying, I have ventured to speak

before the Lord; shall I now cease lest the righteous be
destroyed with the wicked?

10. Suppose there shall be twenty righteous found in the

land?

11. And the Lord said, I will not destroy it for the sake of
twenty.

12. Finally I said, Oh, let not the Lord be displeased and I
will speak only once more.

13. Suppose ten righteous shall be found there?

14. And he said, I will not destroy it for the sake of ten.

15. But thou, Abraham, remain here in prayer and fasting

until my messengers return unto thee, for if ten righteous
be not found in the land, I shall gather out those righteous
who are found there and thou shalt be caught up of the
earth to call down fire and brimstone upon the land by an
holy ordinance inasmuch as thou art a priest and a king
forever after the order of the Most High God, having the
right of the Firstborn which hath come down from the
fathers to exercise absolute authority over thy posterity,
even the right of life and death under the direction of the
Holy One.

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16. Nevertheless, remember that this authority can only
be exercised under the direction of heaven, for when any
man exerciseth his priesthood contrary to the will of
heaven, his priesthood is forfeited, his authority passeth
away and he can call upon the powers of heaven to
accomplish no work from that day forward.

17. Wherefore, let all men repent of the exercise of

unrighteous dominion and turn unto the Lord their God,
that they be severed not from the rights of His House.
18. So saying, the Lord departed from me and I remained
in that place in fasting and praying, awaiting the return of
the three messenger.

CHAPTER 119

THIS is the account which Lot told unto me, Abraham,

concerning the coming of the three messengers unto him
in Sodom.

2. For Lot was sitting in the door of his house in the city
of Sodom conversing with two of his sonsinlaw who were
Sodomites, when he saw three men approaching down the
street of the city.

3. And the Spirit of the Lord whispered unto Lot, Behold

these are my messengers who bring tiding of salvation.

4. Lot, therefore, rose up to meet them and bowing down

before them, said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray
you, into your servant's house and tarry all night that I
may wash your feet and anoint your heads and feed you,
and in the morning ye may go on leaving only a blessing
upon the head of your servant.

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5. And they said, Nay, but we will abide in the street
tonight for we have heard that it is not safe to enter into
the house of a Sodomite lest we be abused and tortured
and killed and our property stolen from us.

6. But Lot replied, Not so, my lords, for I am no

sodomite, but a true worshiper of the Lord Jehovah and I
know that ye are his messengers for his Spirit hath shown
me this thing.

7. Then, when Lot had confessed his faith in the Lord

Jehovah, the angels entered with him into his house and
he did set before them a feast with unleavened bread and
wine and they blessed it and partook thereof and Lot's
family also partook and were filled.

CHAPTER 120

WHEN Lot's two sonsinlaw saw him take the strangers

into his home, they went straightway unto the magistrates
of the city for it was unlawful in the city of Sodom to
entertain an stranger in your home.

2. Wherefore, the people of Sodom surrounded Lot's

house, both young and old, all the people of the city.

3. And one of them called to Lot and said, where are the
men whom thou tookest into thine house tonight?

4. Behold, thou knowest that it is contrary to our laws to

thus entertain strangers.

5. Nevertheless, we will forgive thee for thou art a mighty

prince among us; therefore, bring forth the men unto us
that we may lie with them and do unto them according to

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all the desires of our hearts.

6. But Lot went out the door to the front of his house and
securing the door behind him, he confronted the
Sodomites.

7. And Lot said to them, I pray you, my brethren, do not

these wicked things, for it is contrary to the law of the
Most High God who is king over all, to force anyone to
lie with another.

8. Repent now, therefore, that the wrath of the Most High

God fall not upon you and ye with your city be destroyed.

9. But they were angry with Lot and they cried unto him,
Stand away from the door lest we take thee also.

10. Thou hast come in among us and partaken of the

good of our land and we have treated thee with honor
although thou wast a stranger. dost thou now make
thyself a judge over us?

11. And their anger increased against Lot and they said
unto him, Behold, we will deal worse with thee than with
them.

12. Wherefore, we shall take thee and thy daughters and

the men who have come in unto thee and any others in
thine household who shall please us and we will do with
you according to all our desires.

13. But Lot replied, Behold now, I have two daughters

who have not lain with man.

14. Let me, I pray you, plead with you that ye take them
not according to this wickedness and abuse them
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according to your abominations, for the most High God
will surely destroy this city if ye repent not.

15. Wherefore, ye shall do nothing unto me nor my

daughters nor the strangers that are within my gate nor
any of mine household, for God will smite you in the
attempt.

16. And their anger increased yet more against Lot and
they came near to break down the door, but the
messengers of God who were holy men bearing the
Power of the Priesthood after God's holy order, put forth
their hands, pulled Lot into the house and shut the door
behind him.

17. Then they smote the people of Sodom with blindness

so that they could not find the door.

CHAPTER 121

AND one of these holy men said unto Lot, Take now all
that appertaineth unto thee, whether persons or goods,
our of this city, for the wrath of God is upon this place
and tomorrow it shall be destroyed because the cries of
those who have been abused here have risen unto the ears
of the Lord of Sabaoth and the abominations of the
Sodomites have come up before His face.

2. Wherefore, surely upon the morrow the vengeance of

the Lord shall fall upon Sodom that neither root nor
branch shall be left here for the fullness of their iniquity
hath come upon them and in the fullness thereof they
shall be cut off.

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3. Therefore, Lot went forth at that time and spake unto
his sonsinlaw and his married daughters and all who had
gone forth with him from our camp, saying, Up, get you
out of their place for on the morrow the Lord will destroy
this city.

4. But his words were as foolishness unto them and they

mocked him.

5. And Lot returned unto his house in sorrow.

CHAPTER 122

WHEN morning came, the men of god hastened Lot

saying, Arise, take thy wives and thy daughters who are
here with thee in the house and depart hence lest ye be
consumed by the wrath of god which shall be visited
upon the iniquities of Sodom.

2. And while they were preparing to depart, Lot's heart

being full of sorrow at leaving his daughters and his
daughters' children to be destroyed, the men of God took
him by the hand with his wives and his daughters, for the
Lord had mercy upon Lot because of his integrity,
because he had not bowed down unto false gods nor
entered into the abominations of Sodom.

3. And Lot thought to dwell in Zoar; wherefore, he

hastened there, but his wife Ado turned back unto the city
of Sodom.

4. Ado was the daughter of Eli, the son of Eliezer, which

Eli had accompanied Lot to Sodom.

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5. And Ado thought upon her parents and her daughters
who remained in the city, her heart was pained within her
and she turned back unto them and was lost.

6. But Lot entered with the rest of his family into Zoar
and was there when the cities of the plains were
overthrown.

CHAPTER 123

THEN the three holy men of god came unto me,

Abraham, where I was fasting and praying nigh unto
Sodom, and they lifted me up into the heavens and taught
me the ordinances the key words and the sings by which I
might call down fire and brimstone upon the cities.

2. And I did as I was commanded by the angels of god

and the cities were destroyed.

3. And when I saw the destruction of the land, mine heart

was sorrowful, but the Lord said unto me, I have had
mercy upon Lot and have sent him out of the city that he
was not destroyed, for he was the only righteous man in
all the cities.

4. Wherefore, mine heart was comforted.

CHAPTER 124

AND when the destruction was over, Lot feared to

continue dwelling in Zoar, lest it also should be destroyed.

2. Wherefore, he took his family and went unto the cave

of Adullam and dwelt there.

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3. And the word of the Lord came unto Lot saying, Go in
now unto thy two daughters who are with thee who have
not known man, for they shall conceive by thee that thy
posterity shall not be cut off from the earth.

4. So Lot went in unto his two daughters and lay with

them and they conceived by him.

5. And the firstborn bare a son and called his name Moab.

6. And the younger also bare a son and she called his
name Benammi.

7. And Lot dwelt in the cave for five years and after that
he took his wives and his daughters and his sons whom
his daughters had borne unto him and dwelt on the other
side of Jordan.

8. And the Lord blessed him and prospered him and he

dwelt in safety.

CHAPTER 125

AFTER the destruction of the cities of the plains, I,

Abraham, journeyed to the south to the land of Gerar.

2. Now the king of the land of Gerar was Abimelech, and

he was one who worshipped the Most High God and he
was just and upright in all his ways.

3. And Abimelech had entered the Holy Order of God

and was a priest and a king after the Order of the Most
High God and had received the rites and ordinances of
the gospel.

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4. As a youth he had dwelt with me in the city of Shalom
and he was as a brother unto me and we shared all things.

5. When Sarah and I went in unto Abimelech to

commune with him, the Spirit of the Lord fell upon
Abimelech and he blessed Sarah in great outpourings after
the Order of the Ancients and anointed her that she
might bear holy seed and we rejoiced in the blessings of
the Lord unto Sarah through the three holy men from the
City of Enoch and through His servant Abimelech.

6. And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me also and I

blessed her and anointed her that the Spirit of the Lord
might fall upon her in a greater outpouring to the
sanctification of herself and her seed.

7. And we rejoiced together for three nights and two days

and worshipped the Lord our God and were filled with
joy and peace in the blessings of the Lord unto us.

8. And we were magnified in the Lord.

CHAPTER 126

THE next night, after Sarah and I had returned to our

camp, Abimelech was seated upon his throne praying
when a sleep from the Lord fell upon him and he slept
there all that night.

2. And while he slept, he dreamed a dream in which an

angel of the Lord with a drawn sword in his hand came
and stood above him.

3. And Abimelech was frightened at the angel, but the

angel said unto him, Fear not, for because thou hast

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faithfully entered into the rites and ordinances of my
gospel and hast walked an holy walk before me and didst
uphold Shem and Abraham after him in the work which I
have called them to do in maintaining mine holy order in
the earth, behold, I am sent to stand by thy side and shall
protect thee against all the power of the adversary.

4. For thy sins are forgiven thee and thine exaltation is

sure and thou shalt dwell forever in the presence of thy
God.

5. So saying, the angel departed from the vision of

Abimelech, but he felt his presence near him from that
time forth and the adversary thereafter exercised no
power over him.

CHAPTER 127

WE had dwelt in Gerar nine months when the three holy

men of God again visited us and Sarah gave birth to a
son.

2. And on the eighth day he was circumcised according to

the commandment of the Lord to me and I called his
name Isaac. The child grew and when he was three years
old he was weaned and I made a great feast on the day he
was weaned.

3. And Melchizedek, king of Shalom, with Eber his heir

and Abimelech, king of Gerar with his son, Abimelech,
and Pharaoh, king of Egypt, father to Hagar and Ishmael,
and all the mighty princes of the land came to the feast
which I prepared, for these were the men whom I loved,
with my brethren Aneram, Eshcol, and Mamre.

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4. My father, Terah, also, and my brother, Nahor, came
unto the feast having heard that Sarah had borne a son.
And we all rejoiced before the Lord for many days that
my son Isaac had reached the age of weaning from his
mother.

5. And from that time forth Sarah and I introduced the

lad into the tabernacle and began to instruct him in the
mysteries of godliness that he might be prepared in his
youth to enter into the Holy of Holies and be instructed
there.

6. For Shem had instructed me in the city of Shalom that

children should be instructed in the temple from the age
of weaning which is three years old, that they should be
instructed in the Holy of Holies from the age of puberty
which is twelve years old, and that they should be
endowed with power from on high from the age of
maturity, which is fourteen years.

7. But inasmuch as I had not journeyed unto the city of

Shalom until I was ten years old, I was prepared for the
blessings of the Lord's House in only a few years.

CHAPTER 128

MY son Ishmael I did not introduce into the Lord's

House in his childhood because he was not spiritual in his
nature, but he was a hunter, proficient in the use of the
bow and other instruments of death.

2. Nevertheless, the Lord was with Ishmael and blessed

him for my sake in all to which he put his hand.

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3. When Isaac was five years old, he was sitting with
Ishmael at the door of Hagar's tent where Ishmael was
sharpening his arrows, for Ishmael was sixteen years old
at this time.

4. As they thus sat at the door of Hagar's tent, Isaac

picked up one of Ishmael's arrows and brake it.

5. Seeing this, Ishmael grew angry and taking another

arrow, he fitted it to his bow intending to slay Isaac, but
the Lord touched his heart so that he did not slay him.

6. But Sarah saw this thing which Ishmael had intended to

do to Isaac and she was grieved at it.

7. That night when I entered the tent of Sarah, she said to

me, Let Hagar and her son be sent to dwell apart, for this
day did Ishmael seek to slay Isaac.

8. Now these words caused me great sorrow for I did not

desire to see my family divided.

9. But that night an angel of the Lord came unto me in a

dream, saying, Hearken unto the words of Sarah, thy wife,
and let Hagar and her son Ishmael dwell apart lest harm
come upon they son Isaac who shall be thine heir.

CHAPTER 129

THEREFORE, I arose early in the morning and took

Hagar and my son Ishmael into the deserts of Arabia
where dwelt a people who were friendly to me.

2. And there I built with Ishmael a temple unto the Lord

our God that his seed might always be kept in
remembrance of the Lord.
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3. And Hagar and Ishmael dwelt among the people of the
desert and were content, and Ishmael was a mighty hunter
with the bow among them.

4. And every year at a certain time I went and dwelt with

my wife, Hagar, and with my son, Ishmael.

5. And when Ishmael was twenty years of age, his mother

asked my consent to take him to the house of her father
in Egypt, for she longed to see her family again.

6. Wherefore, I gave them my blessing and they departed

into the land of Egypt where they remained one year.

7. And while they were in Egypt, Ishmael took to wife

Meribah, daughter of Phanes, son of Pharaoh, king of
Egypt.

8. And after he had taken Meribah to wife, they remained

in the land of Egypt yet ten years and Meribah bare unto
Ishmael four sons and two daughters.

9. After this time, Ishmael took his mother and his wife
and his children and returned to the deserts of Arabia.

10. And the Lord blessed Ishmael for my sake and

increased him in flocks and in herds and in good things.

CHAPTER 130

WHEN Ishmael had returned from the land of Egypt, I

went as was my custom to stay with my wife Hagar and
my son Ishmael.

2. And when Ishmael was away hunting, his wife Meribah

spake disrespectfully to me and complained of my being
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in their tents.

3. Moreover, she abused her children and when I

chastised her for this thing, she rose up in anger against
me.

4. My wife Hagar saw all these things, and when her son
Ishmael had returned from the hunt, she complained unto
him of the actions of Meribah toward me.

5. And Ishmael came unto me and said, My father, what

shall I do with such a wife who abuseth my father and my
children and speaketh evil of me, for she had spoken
against her husband Ishmael, also.

6. And I said unto him, Such an one is not fit to be thy

wife nor the mother of thy children nor to dwell in thy
tents; wherefore, give her a bill of divorcement and send
her back to the home of her father in shame and find
another more worthy than she to be thy wife and the
mother of these children.

7. So Ishmael gave unto Meribah a bill of divorcement

and sent her back to her father Phanes in the land Egypt
and his mother Hagar raised his children until he took
another wife.

CHAPTER 131

THE next year Ishmael came to my camp and when he

had kissed me and we had eaten together, he said unto
me, My father, according to thine instructions I did give
unto my wife Meribah a bill of divorcement and sent her
back to the home of her father in shame.

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2. Now, therefore, I come unto thee to seek thy counsel
concerning obtaining another in her place.

3. Now, it pleased me that my son Ishmael had come to

me regarding choosing a wife.

4. Therefore, I sought among the women of my camp and

found two who were desirous of being wife to Ishmael,
even Zola, the daughter of my wife Peleliah and Naiomi,
the daughter Kemuel, the son of Kish, who had been
among the believers who met in the room of my mother
in the city of Ur.

5. And I was pleased to give them unto my son Ishmael

because he had come to me for counsel and because he
had begun to magnify his priesthood for he did worship
the Lord our God and sought to overcome his
weaknesses.

6. And Ishmael and his family dwelt with me a long time

in Gerar and after that, when I moved my camp to
Beersheba, which is by Hebron.

CHAPTER 132

AND Sarah and I continued to teach our son Isaac and

instruct him in the ways of the ancients that he might be
initiated into the Holy Order of God and receive the
blessings of eternal lives.

2. And Isaac did know the Lord and the Lord was with
him and did bless him greatly because he was full of faith
and love and did good to all he met.

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WHEN Isaac was thirtyseven years old, he was one day

talking with his brother Ishmael.

2. And Ishmael was boasting of his righteousness, saying,

I was thirteen years old when the Lord spake to my father
to circumcise us, and from that time I have consecrated
my soul unto the Lord and kept His commandments as
they have come unto me from my father.

3. But Isaac answered him saying, Why dost thou boast in

thy righteousness, for none of us are without sin and all
mankind is as nothing before the Lord.

4. And we must be prepared to be offered upon the altar

as a sacrifice to our God with joy that we can glorify Him
before our calling and election is made sure.

CHAPTER 134

THIS saying of Isaac's pleased the Lord and the Lord

visited me, saying, Thy son Isaac have I seen and his heart
is right before me and he is clean and pure, an acceptable
sacrifice unto the Lord.

2. And the Lord touched the eyes of mine understanding

that they were opened and I saw the sons of God
gathered in council with the Father and Lucifer also was
among them.

3. And the Lord said to Lucifer, Surely thou hast been

abroad in the earth trying the hearts of men.

4. Whom hast thou found standing in his integrity who

should be further tried to know whether he be thine or
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mine?

5. Lucifer replied, Hast thou considered Abraham and

Sarah and Isaac? For I am unable to lead them into sin in
whatever matter I place before them.

6. They are united in perfect bonds of love and purity and

even Abraham hath united all his family again which was
divided.

7. Surely they should be tried to know whether they are

faithful only in their prosperity or whether they will be
faithful also in adversity.

8. And the Lord said unto Lucifer, Were I to say unto

Abraham, Bring up Isaac thy son unto the high place and
offer him as a burnt offering unto me, he would not
withhold him from me nor would Isaac refuse to be
offered.

9. And Lucifer answered the Lord, Speak now unto

Abraham as thou hast said and we shall see whether his
heart is perfect with the Lord or whether his end shall be
in my kingdom.

CHAPTER 135

WITH these words, the vision was closed to my mind and

the Lord said unto me, Abraham, take now thy son Isaac
whom thou lovest and go to the land of Moriah and offer
him there for a burnt offering upon the mountain upon
which thou shalt see the glory of the Lord resting as a
cloud.

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2. And the Lord departed from me and left me to
consider these things.

CHAPTER 136

NOW Sarah's heart was knit unto Isaac's insomuch that

she did keep him by her side whenever possible and he
did sleep upon her bed at night.

2. Wherefore, I thought, How shall I separate Isaac from

his mother Sarah for such a journey lest her heart be
grieved and she die in her grief?

3. So I went in unto Sarah and comforted her and

afterwards I said unto her, Our son Isaac we have taught
these many years and I feel now that I should take him
unto Shem and Eber, his son, where the can be instructed
by the ancient ones in the mysteries of the ancients that
he may become a perfect servant of the Lord our God.

4. Sarah replied, Thou hast spoken well, my lord. Go to

now and do all as thou hast said, only let the lad remain
not too long apart from me for my soul is bound to his
soul with a perfect love from God.

5. And I answered Sarah saying, My daughter, let us pray

to the Lord our God that we may yield to His will in all
things and that all things will work together for our good.

CHAPTER 137

AND Isaac slept with us that night and Sarah kissed and
embraced him and instructed him until morning.

2. And she said to him, O my son, how can my soul

separate itself from thee?
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3. And she still kissed and embraced him until the time of
preparation had come.

4. Then Sarah took a beautiful and costly robe from

among those which Abimelech had given her, for
Abimelech had loved Sarah greatly and had given her may
precious things, but his love toward her was pure in the
sight of God and according to the laws of heaven.

5. With this robe which had never been worn, Sarah

clothed Isaac and put a turban upon his head in which she
head in which she wrapped a precious stone.

6. And she said unto him, Even s this stone art thou
precious unto me, my son.

7. Nevertheless, I would have thee so conduct thy life that

when the Lord shall come to gather up his jewels, thou
wilt be among the number.

CHAPTER 138

THUS, taking provisions for our journey, we started out

and Sarah and others of our people accompanied us upon
the road.

2. And when the time of parting had arrived, Sarah wept

bitterly and I also wept with her as did Isaac our son and
those who accompanied us.

3. And Sarah caught hold of Isaac and held him in her

arms and embraced him and kissed him and wept over
him and Sarah said unto him, Who knoweth if after this
day I shall ever see thee again?

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4. Nevertheless, our hope is in the Lord Jehovah in whom
is life.

5. Therefore, if I see thee not again in this veil of tears, yet

surely we shall again embrace before the throne of God.

6. God bless thee, my son, and keep thee secure in His

ways and I will be close to thee all thy days.

7. So saying, Sarah kissed Isaac again and turned back to

the camp with all who had accompanied us.

CHAPTER 139

AS we proceeded upon our journey, Satan came to me in

the form of an aged man, humble and contrite, who said
unto me, How canst thou think to do so unto thy son?

2. Did not God give thee this son by an holy conception

after the Order of the Ancients and dost thou think so
little of this precious gift that thou wilt take his life as
thou wouldst slaughter a dumb beast and thus cut off
thine only hope of a royal posterity in the earth?

3. What evil hath he done unto thee that thou shouldst do

this thing?

4. Dost thou not understand that this thing cannot be

from the Lord?

5. Behold the Lord delighteth not in human sacrifice.

6. Did he not smite the priest of Nimrod for seeking to

take thy life in like manner?

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7. Surely thou shouldst repent of this thy purpose and
return thy son unto the bed of his mother, Sarah.

8. But I knew that this was the word of Satan seeking to

prevent my obeying the word of the Lord; wherefore, I
commanded him to depart by the authority of the holy
priesthood in the name of the Lord, and he departed from
me in haste.

CHAPTER 140

A short time later, Satan came again, appearing to Isaac in

the form of a handsome and pleasing young man.

2. And he said unto Isaac, Dost thou not understand that

thine old father in his foolishness bringeth thee to be slain
today for no purpose?

3. Now therefore, my brother, go not with him for it is

the foolishness of his old age that doeth this.

4. Therefore, let not thy precious life and thy beautiful

body be lost from the earth in such a manner, but come
with me and I will introduce thee to the pleasures of the
earth and thou shalt take pleasure therein all thy days.

5. When Isaac heard this, he saith unto me, My father,

surely this is Satan come to dissuade me from obeying the
word of the Lord for thus doth he appear and thus doth
he say unto me.

6. Wherefore, my father, rebuke him in the name of the

Lord that he shall cease from troubling me for I know
that thou art a servant of the Most High God and that it is
to fulfill the will of the Lord that we are come unto this

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place.

7. Wherefore, I, Abraham, rebuked Satan in the name of

the Lord Jehovah, the God of Noah and of Shem, and he
departed from us in fear.

CHAPTER 141

AS we continued on our journey, we entered a narrow

ravine with high walls.

2. When we were in the mist of it, we heard a mighty

rumbling and the earth shook beneath our feet.

3. Looking back, we saw a great wall of water coming

down upon us bearing trees and boulders in a mighty
flood.

4. Mine heart was moved within me for my son Isaac and

he sought also to protect me, but, raising mine hands to
heaven I called upon the Name of the Lord and the Lord
heard me out of heaven and stopped the flood until we
had ascended from the ravine.

5. Thus did Satan seek to destroy us that we might no

offer an acceptable sacrifice unto the Lord our God but
the power of our God is mightier than that of Satan;
wherefore, Satan can do no harm unto the children of
men except the Lord God allow him to do it.

6. Therefore, do all things, whether they be good or evil,

work together for the good of the saints of God who
serve Him and keep His commandments.

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CHAPTER 142

AND on the third day, we saw the place afar off which
the Lord had appointed for the sacrifice of my beloved
son Isaac.

2. And I knew the place because the glory of the Lord was
there as a pillar of fire and a glorious cloud.

3. And when I saw the place, I said unto my son Isaac, My

son, dost thou see aught upon yonder mountain?

4. And Isaac replied, yea, my father, for the glory of the

Lord resteth upon it as a pillar of fire and a glorious
cloud.

5. Then I rejoiced that my son was found worthy to see

this sign also and we bowed down there and worshipped
the Lord our God.

CHAPTER 143

AS we approached the mountain, Isaac said unto me, My

father, we have with us the fire and the wood, but we
have no lamb to serve as a burnt offering unto the Lord.

2. Explain now unto me the mystery hidden in this thing

that I may be obedient unto all which the Lord thy God
requireth of me.

3. Then I rejoiced, for I knew that the Lord had revealed

in the heart of my son Isaac that which we must do.

4. Therefore I said unto him, Isaac, my son, the Lord hath

chosen thee to be a perfect burnt offering unto him
instead of the lamb.
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5. And this thing is a type of the Lord of spirits who is
our first Father and his Only Begotten Son who is the
Lamb slain from before the foundation to the earth.

6. For surely God will offer his only son as a sacrifice

upon the cross to atone for our sins and for the sins of all
mankind, that all men might be redeemed front he power
of death and be brought to stand before the judgement
bar of the great Jehovah to be judged according to their
works, that every man might receive a righteous and just
judgment and that mercy might have claim upon the
penitent, the price of their sins having been paid by the
Son of God.

7. Yea, surely, my son, we have been chosen to represent

the Father and the Son in this thing, and though I grieve
to think of losing thee, my beloved, yet I rejoice that we
are honored thus to represent God.

CHAPTER 144

AND Isaac said unto me, I will do all that the Lord hath
commanded thee, my father, with joy in mine heart that I
am chosen to represent the son of God in this sacrifice,
and I have this hope in me, that if we are faithful to all the
commandments of the Lord our God, I shall yet stand in
the flesh with thee and my mother before the throne of
the Ancient of Days and receive from him the promise of
exaltation and eternal lives.

2. When I heard this answer, I rejoiced in my son Isaac

whose heart was pure and upright before the Lord.

3. But the Spirit of the Lord constrained me to test him

further, and I said unto him, Hast thou any thoughts or
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feelings which would prevent thy being offered as a
perfect sacrifice before the Lord?

4. For if thou dost in any way doubt the efficacy of this

sacrifice, which is in the similitude of the sacrifice of the
Only Begotten of the Father which is full of grace and
truth, it is not meet that thou shouldst be offered as a
sacrifice before our God.

5. But Isaac answered me saying, O my father, as the Lord

liveth and as thou liveth as an holy man of god, I know
that thou art a servant of the Most High God and that
thou dost hold the keys of the fathers.

6. Thou hast never asked me to do anything which was

not of God but thou hast taught me by precept and
example to serve the Lord thy God in every act of my life.

7. Shall I then shrink from being offered by thee as a

sacrifice unto the Lord thy God?

8. Nay, but I shall rejoice forever to have been so

honored.

9. Blessed is the Lord thy God who hath this day chosen
me to be sacrificed as a burnt offering before him.

CHAPTER 145

THUS we came unto the place which the Lord had

appointed for the offering of my son, rejoicing in the
glory of our God.

2. Yet I did weep at the thought of losing my beloved son

Isaac and at the knowledge of the pain this would bring to
his mother Sarah, for their souls were united as one.
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3. Nevertheless, my heart rejoiced that I was chosen with
my son for this holy ordinance that we might thereby
magnify the name of the Lord.

CHAPTER 146

AFTER kneeling in prayer unto the Lord our God, Isaac

and I constructed an altar before the Lord and I laid the
wood in order upon the altar which we had built.

2. And Isaac lay upon the altar and I bound him there and
he said unto me, Bind me securely lest I move beneath the
force of the knife and profane the offering before the
Lord.

3. So I bound him securely that he could not move upon

the altar.

4. And I wept as I prepared my son for the sacrifice and

Isaac wept with me, yet our hearts rejoiced to have been
found worthy of this great blessing.

CHAPTER 147

WHEN all was prepared, I picked up the knife, kissed my

son Isaac, and prepared to offer him as a sacrifice unto
the Lord my God.

2. But the voice of the Lord came unto me saying,

Abraham, slay not thy son, for I have tested you in this
manner that I might know that your hearts are perfect
before me.

3. Now I know that ye fear the Lord your God in that

thou hast not withheld thine heir from mine altar and he
hath willingly lain thereon to be a sacrifice of a burnt
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offering unto the Lord.

4. Therefore, lift up thine eyes and behold the ram that

was chosen from the beginning to stand in the place of
thy son Isaac as a burnt offering before me.

5. And I looked up and saw a ram caught by his horns in a

thicket.

6. For as the ram had advanced to the sacrifice, Satan had

caught him in the thicket that he might not be offered in
Isaac's stead.

7. But I went and freed him from the thicket and releasing
my son Isaac, I placed the ram upon the altar and offered
him in Isaac's place, that his blood might be considered as
the blood of Isaac before the Lord.

8. And the Lord accepted the sacrifice of the ram as if it

had been Isaac and the Lord appeared unto us and
blessed me and my seed on that day.

9. And we rejoiced in the Lord.

CHAPTER 148

WHEN all things were finished, Isaac and I returned to

our camp rejoicing in the Lord our God.

2. But when we reached the place we found that Sarah

was not there, for the agents of Satan had come to her
saying, Behold, dost thou not understand that Abraham
goeth to offer thy son Isaac as a burnt offering unto the
Lord his God?

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3. Surely he doeth this because he is jealous of thy love
for thy son Isaac.

4. Go, therefore, and stop this thing lest he to whom

thine heart is knitted be destroyed from off the face of the
earth.

CHAPTER 149

BUT Sarah said, Surely the heart of my lord Abraham is

right with the Lord his God for he walketh before him in
all his ways.

2. Nevertheless, shall my son Isaac be offered as a burnt

offering and I not be there to weep over him and
strengthen him and pray for him that he be and
acceptable offering unto the Lord god of Abraham?

3. Nay, but I shall go to him.

4. And Sarah departed with her menservants and her

maidservants and went as far as Hebron but found us not.

5. Therefore, Sarah rested in Hebron and sent her young

men to find us, who searched all the land round about
and even in the city of Shalom but found us not.

6. Then Sarah prayed unto the lord saying, O Lord God

of Abraham, surely I know that all things are in thine
hand, and I do not fear for my son Isaac for I know that
mine husband Abraham is an high priest after thine holy
order.

7. Nevertheless, it is my desire to be with my son at this

holy hour that I might share his joy and his sorrow before
the Lord our God.
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CHAPTER 150

THEN the word of the Lord came unto Sarah saying,

Surely I have accepted the offering of Isaac and have
provided a ram prepared before the foundation of the
earth was laid to be offered in his place; wherefore, thy
son liveth and is with his father Abraham and even now
searcheth for thee.

2. When Sarah heard these words, her heart was filled

with joy so that she could not contain it and her spirit was
lifted up to see the Paradise of God and she exclaimed,
Behold, I have seen my Redeemer and it sufficeth me, and
she gave up the ghost.

3. Thus did Sarah die in Hebrom being one hundred and

twentyseven years old and she died having seen her
Redeemer and having received from him the promise of
eternal life.

CHAPTER 151

THEN was word brought unto us, that Sarah was gone
unto Hebron, wherefore we journeyed there and found
that Sarah had died.

2. But having inquired after the manner of her death, we

rejoiced that she went with the promise of exaltation and
that she died knowing of Isaac's salvation and his
acceptance with God.

3. Then we took Sarah unto a cave which I purchased of

Ephron the Hittite for that purpose and we buried her
there and we wept over her, yet we rejoiced in her
righteousness before God.
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4. And all the people of the land came to honor Sarah
with Pharaoh who came from Egypt and Abimelech from
Gerar and many others who honored and loved Sarah.

5. For she was truly and handmaiden of the Lord and

ministered unto many in the name of the Lord in love and
charity and was greatly loved by all for her kindness
meekness and her great wisdom in godliness.

CHAPTER 152

THUS, I, Abraham, began to be old having seen one

hundred and thirtyseven years.

2. Wherefore, I write this record of my life that others

might benefit from the workings of the Lord my God
with me.

3. And I bear this witness that the Lord liveth and

reigneth in the heavens, and he is the Most High God
over all the earth.

4. He hath led me since first he appeared to me in a

dream when I was three years of age, even unto this time
when I am old and bowed down with years.

5. He hath done only good to me and not evil all the days
of my life.

6. Surely I will love him and serve him forever and ever
and will magnify his name on high before all people.
Amen.

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CHAPTER 153

AFTER Sarah's death, I sent my son Isaac unto Shem and

Eber to learn more perfectly the ways of the ancients and
he remained there three years before returning to my
camp.

CHAPTER 154

IN the one hundred thirtyeighth year of my life, my

brother Abimelech, king of Gerar, died being one
hundred and ninetythree years of age.

2. Wherefore, I took my people and journeyed to Gerar

where we mourned over Abimelech for he was a good
and holy man who walked in perfectness before his God
and had made his calling and his election sure.

3. Therefore, we rejoiced in knowing of his end.

4. Nevertheless, we sorrowed to be parted from him, but I

knew that I should soon go to him, which knowledge
comforted mine heart.

5. And his son Abimelech was chosen to reign in his

stead.

CHAPTER 155

THE following year Lot, my brother's son, died being one

hundred and forty years old.

2. He, to, was a just man and accepted of the Lord,

although he did not walk in all the ways of the ancients,
for he had coveted his own property and separated from
the community of God, therefore he must receive a just
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reward.

3. Nevertheless, the Lord loved him because he

maintained his integrity, even in the midst of wicked
Sodom, wherefore the Lord saved him and those of his
household who would be saved from destruction and the
Lord made of him also a mighty people.

CHAPTER 156

NOW, when my son Isaac was about to return unto me

from the city of Shalom, the word of the Lord came unto
me saying, Behold, in the city of Haran dwelleth Bethuel
the son of thy brother Nahor who is dead.

2. Unto Bethuel hast been born Rebekah, who at this time

is ten years of age.

3. Send now and fetch her as a wife to thy son Isaac, for
thus have I appointed that she shall bear unto him the
chosen seed.

CHAPTER 157

SO I called unto me Eliezer, my trusted companion who

had been with me since we had come out of the city of
Shalom, and I said unto him, Put now thine hand under
my thigh and swear unto me before the Most High god
that thou shalt go unto the city of Haran and bring thence
Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor my brother
to be a wife unto my son Isaac according to the word of
the Lord, but if the maiden refuse to come with thee, thou
shalt be free of this thine oath.

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2. So Eliezer swore before the Most High God and
departed from me in peace.

3. He also pursued his journey to Haran and found

Rebekah, even as I had said, and returned with her after
the return of my son Isaac from the city of Shalom.

4. Thus Isaac took Rebekah to wife when he was forty

years old, he having four other wives; but Rebekah he
took to wife in the tent of Sarah.

5. And Rebekah bare no children; wherefore I knew that

the Lord should work a marvelous work in her even as in
Sarah before her.

6. Therefore, mine heart rejoiced in Rebekah, the wife of

my son Isaac, for she was pure and virtuous like unto
Sarah my beloved who had preceded me into the rest of
the Lord.

CHAPTER 158

THIS same year I took to wife Keturah, the daughter of

mine old friend Abinelech king of Gerar who was dead.
2. Keturah bare me six sons so that in all I received of the
Lord eight sons and three hundred and twentyeight
daughters, being in all three hundred and thirtysix souls.

3. Thus did the Lord increase me greatly besides the many

sons who were adopted to me.

4. And thus I increased continually before the Lord.

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AFTER nine years my son Isaac brought unto me his wife

Rebekah for she was yet barren.

2. And she said unto me, My father, surely I know that my

mother Sarah was barren for many years before she bare
Isaac unto thee.

3. Wherefore, pray for me, that I, like Sarah, may

conceive.

4. Therefore, I prayed over my daughter Rebekah, and I

said unto Isaac, Thy mother Sarah bare thee after she
received a blessing from my brother Abimelech king of
Gerar.

5. Abimelech, son of Abimelech, reigneth now in the

place of his father in Gerar, and he, too, is a mighty man
of God.

6. Go ye in unto him that he may bless Rebekah and she

shall conceive an bear unto thee two sons and the younger
shall rule over the elder, but in the elder shall the word of
the Lord also be fulfilled for through him shall I slay
wicked Nimrod even as the Lord foretold at my birth.

7. So Isaac took Rebekah and went unto Gerar, unto

Abimelech, son of Abimelech, who blessed her after the
order of the ancients, and she conceived and bare unto
Isaac two sons, even as I had said.

8. And on the eighth day, Isaac brought the last unto me

to be named and the elder I called Esau, for he was
covered with hair and I said, Surely he shall be a mighty

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hunter before the Lord.

9. But the second I called Jacob, for I said, Surely the

elder shall serve the younger.

CHAPTER 160

WHEN my youngest son Shuach, whom Keturah had

borne me (for she bare Zimran, Jokshan, mean, Midian,
Ishbak and Shuach) was fifteen years of age, I called all of
my sons unto me and instructed them in the ways of the
Lord and blessed them and give unto each wives and a
goodly inheritance of property according to the
instructions of the Lord and sent them away to inherit
lands which the Lord had prepared for them.

2. Then I rested in peace knowing that I had done all the

will of the Lord and that soon I should be gathered unto
my fathers to be with Sarah and the righteous in the
Paradise of God.

CHAPTER 161

BEHOLD, I am Isaac, the son of Abraham, and I finish

my father's record.

2. For when the end of my father's sojourn among men

had come, he called me unto him and said, My son,
according to the commandment of God unto thee, I have
appointed thee to be mine heir that all the authority I
possess should rest with thee.

3. Thou knowest that the Lord is God in heaven and

earth and we serve only him.

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4. He hath many times preserved me from destruction
when the evil ones would have destroyed me, for I always
place my trust in him.

5. He brought me unto this land and said unto me, to thy

seed will I give all this land and they shall inherit it when
they shall keep my commandments, my statutes and my
judgments that I have commanded thee and which I shall
command them.

6. Now therefore my son, hearken unto my voice and

keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, even as
thou hast been instructed by me and by thy mother Sarah
and by Shem an Eber.

7. Depart not from the holy order of God in any

particular and remember always the mercies of our God
and his blessing will never depart from thee.

8. Teach these things also unto thy children and thy

children's children that they may receive the like blessings
with us for all those who obey the law of the fathers will
be blessed with the fathers.

CHAPTER 162

THEN I covenanted with my father to do all things as he

had said and to walk always in his ways.

2. And my father blessed me and mine house and he took

my son Jacob into his tent, he being fifteen years old at
this time, and instructed him for seven days and nights in
the ways of the Lord.

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3. Thus did my father end his days and he died, being one
hundred and seventyfive years of age.

4. And Ishmael and his other sons returned unto me and

we did bury our father with Sarah my mother and all the
inhabitants of the land did mourn over him for he was a
righteous man who did good unto all.

5. And truly this was his testimony, that the Lord is God
over all and those who serve him shall inherit peace in this
life and eternal joy in the life to come. Amen.

- Sarah and Abraham

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