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Book of Abraham, Early 1842
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vah, and I know the end from the begin ning, therefore, my hand shall be over
thee, and I will make of thee a great na tion, and I will bless thee above measure,
and make thy name great among all na tions, and thou shalt be a blessing unto
thy seed after thee, that in their hands
they shall bear this ministry and priest hood unto all nations; and I will bless them
through thy name; for as many as re ceive this gospel shall be called after thy
name, and shall be accounted thy seed,
and shall rise up and bless thee, as unto
their father, and I will bless them that
bless thee, and curse them that curse
thee, and in thee, (that is, in thy
Priesthood) and in thy seed, (that
is thy Priesthood,) for I give unto thee a
promise that this right shall continue in
thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to
say, the literal seed, or the seed of the
body,) shall all the families of the earth
be blessed, even with the blessings of the
gospel, which are the blessings of salva tion, even of life eternal.
12. Now, after the Lord had withdrawn
from speaking to me, and withdrawn his
face from me, I said in mine heart, thy
servent has sought thee earnestly, now I
have found thee. Thou didst send thine
angel to deliver me from the Gods of El kenah, and I will do well to hearken unto
thy voice, therefore let thy servant rise
up aud depart in peace. So I, Abram,
departed as the Lord had said unto me,
and Lot with me, and I, Abram, was six ty and two years old when I departed out
of Haran. And I took Sarai, whom I took to wife when I was in Ur, in Chal dea, 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 Ca naan, and dwelt in tents, as we came on
our way: therefore, eternity was our cov ering, and our rock, and our salvation, as
we journeyed from Haran by the way of
Jershon, to come to the land of Canaan.
13. Now I, Abram, built an altar in
the land of Jershon, and made an offering
unto the Lord, and prayed that the fam ine might be turned away from my fa ther’s house, that they might not perish;
and then we passed from Jershon through
the land, unto the place of Sechem. It
was situated in the plains of Mo[r]eh, and
we had already came 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. [p. 706]
Book of Abraham, Nauvoo, IL, Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 3:703–706; 15 Mar. 1842, 3:719–722 and insert; 16 May 1842, 3:783–784.
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