Exact Word Count needful for me to obtain another place of residence; greater happiness and peace and rest for me, I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same; having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers. conferred upon me from the fathers; it came down from the fathers, from the beginning of time, yea, even from the beginning, or before the foundation of the earth, down to the present time, even the right of the firstborn, or the first man, who is Adam, or first father, through the fathers unto me. also the priest of Pharaoh. the custom of the priest of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to offer up upon the altar which wass=hlblue>as built in the land of Chaldea, for the offering unto these strange gods, men, women, and children. the sun. done after the manner of the Egyptians. they did those virgins upon this altar; and that you may have a knowledge of this altar, I will refer you to the representation at the commencement of this record. made after the form of a bedstead, such ass=hlgree>as wass=hlblue>as had among the Chaldeans, and it stood before the gods of Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah, Korash, and also a god like unto that of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. they lifted up their hands upon me, that they might offer me up and take away my life, behold, I lifted up my voice unto the Lord my God, and the Lord hearkened and heard, and he filled me with the vision of the Almighty, and the angel of his presence stood by me, and immediately unloosed my bands; unto me: Abraham, Abraham, behold, my name is Jehovah, and I have heard thee, and have come down to deliver thee, and to take thee away from thy father's house, and from all thy kinsfolk, into a strange land which thou knowest not of; it wass=hlblue>as with Noah so shall it be with thee; but through thy ministry my name shall be known in the earth forever, for I am thy God. in the land of Ur, of Chaldea. And the Lord broke down the altar of Elkenah, and of the gods of the land, and utterly destroyed them, and smote the priest that he died; and there wass=hlblue>as great mourning in Chaldea, and also in the court of Pharaoh; which Pharaoh signifies king by royal blood. a descendant from the loins of Ham, and wass=hlblue>as a partaker of the blood of the Canaanites by birth. preserved in the land. the daughter of Ham, and the daughter of Egyptus, which in the Chaldean signifies Egypt, which signifies that which is forbidden; under water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land. established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it wass=hlblue>as after the manner of the government of Ham, which wass=hlblue>as patriarchal. pertaining to the Priesthood. led away by their idolatry; smitten that he died, there came a fulfilment of those things which were said unto me concerning the land of Chaldea, that there should be a famine in the land. sorely tormented because of the famine, and he repented of the evil which he had determined against me, to take away my life. they were made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me. the daughter of Haran. there were many flocks in Haran; and my father turned again unto his idolatry, therefore he continued in Haran. many ass=hlgree>as receive this Gospel shall be called after thy name, and shall be accounted thy seed, and shall rise up and bless thee, ass=hlgree>as their father; sought thee earnestly; now I have found thee; the Lord had said unto me, and Lot with me; and I, Abraham, wass=hlblue>as sixty and two years old when I departed out of Haran. in Ur, in Chaldea, and Lot, my brother's son, and all our substance that we had gathered, and the souls that we had won in Haran, and came forth in the way to the land of Canaan, and dwelt in tents ass=hlgree>as we came on our way; our covering and our rock and our salvation, ass=hlgree>as we journeyed from Haran by the way of Jershon, to come to the land of Canaan. situated in the plains of Moreh, and we had already come into the borders of the land of the Canaanites, and I offered sacrifice there in the plains of Moreh, and called on the Lord devoutly, because we had already come into the land of this idolatrous nation. a continuation of a famine in the land; and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there, for the famine became very grievous. come near to enter into Egypt, the Lord said unto me: Behold, Sarai, thy wife, is a very fair woman to look upon; nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it; that upon which thou standest. after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution wass=hlblue>as a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob. to its number of days, and of months, and of years. to its reckoning than the reckoning of the time of the earth upon which thou standest. that upon which thou standest. one man talketh with another; and he told me of the works which his hands had made; stretched out), behold I will show you all these. And he put his hand upon mine eyes, and I saw those things which his hands had made, which were many; and they multiplied before mine eyes, and I could not see the end thereof. in the night time when the Lord spake these words unto me: I will multiply thee, and thy seed after thee, like unto these; and if thou canst count the number of sands, so shall be the number of thy seeds. , also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal. ; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down, for there is space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell; angry, and kept not his first estate; and, at that day, many followed after him. formed, wass=hlblue>as empty and desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the Gods wass=hlblue>as brooding upon the face of the waters. light. bright; and they divided the light, or caused it to be divided, from the darkness. the first, or the beginning, of that which they called day and night. so, even ass=hlgree>as they ordered. from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it wass=hlblue>as from morning until evening that they called day; and this wass=hlblue>as the second time that they called night and day. so ass=hlgree>as they ordered; so, even ass=hlgree>as they ordered. the third time. so. from evening until morning that it wass=hlblue>as night; and it came to pass that it wass=hlblue>as from morning until evening that it wass=hlblue>as day; and it wass=hlblue>as the fourth time. good. or great waters; and cause the fowl to multiply in the earth. from evening until morning that they called night; and it came to pass that it wass=hlblue>as from morning until evening that they called day; and it wass=hlblue>as the fifth time. so, ass=hlgree>as they had said. from evening until morning they called night; and it came to pass that it wass=hlblue>as from morning until evening that they called day; and they numbered the sixth time. in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Gods had not caused it to rain upon the earth when they counseled to do them, and had not formed a man to till the ground. a river running out of Eden, to water the garden, and from thence it wass=hlblue>as parted and became into four heads. after the Lord's time, which wass=hlblue>as after the time of Kolob; for ass=hlgree>as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning. bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; now she shall be called Woman, because she wass=hlblue>as taken out of man; hamed. found an help meet for him. |