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THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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, is 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.

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.

3 And we struck our tents and departed form 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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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 they 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 Hebrews 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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 hr 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.

CHAPTER 77

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.

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

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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