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approached Abraham to sell him an 1901
he wou d ask him: How much is this
imsge% Three manas.' he would reply.
How old are thouY Abraham would ask.
Thirty years. Thou art thirty years of
ase and yet worshi1es this idol, which
We made but today! The man would
depart and go his way. Again another
would come to Abraham and ask, How
much is this idol?' Five manas,' he would
say. How art thou? would Abraham
continue. Fifty years And dost thou,
who art fifty Years OF age. bow down to
this ID / which we made but to-day? With
this the man would depart and go his
way. When Nimrod heard OF Abraham
utterances he o dered him 10 be brought
fore him. and said: Thou son of Te-
rah. make me a beautiful god Abraham
then entered his father house and said:
Make beautiful image for me- They
accordingly made 1t. finished it, and
painted it with many colors. He went and
brought it 10 Nimrod.
And on that day Abrahams righteous
ness shone forth 1t was a cloudy day and
rain fell; therefore when they were about
to thrust him into the burning furnace
Ninrod sat down and all the people of
the dispersion did likewise. Abraham then
entered, and standing in the center he
pleaded his cause. After which NimrOd
| asked, If not the gods whom shall
serve? Abraham replied, The God of
Coos and Lord of Lords. whose king
dom is everlasting in heaven aud on
| earth, and in the heavens of the high
heavens / shall worship, said Nimrod,
the god of fire; ami behcla, l shall cast
thee therein. Let then the God to whom
thou testifieth deliver thee from the burn
ing furnace They then Immediately
bound him strongly and tightly and plac-'
ed him on the ground. They then sur
rounded him with wooden the four sides,
200 cubits t ickness to the north, 800 cubits
to the south, 800 to the west and 800 to
the east. They then set the pile on fire.
The whole house of Terah were worship
pers CT idols, and until that moment
had not recognized their Creator Their
nelghbors and fellow citizens assembled,
and beating their heads, said to Terah,
oh, shame, great shame-thy son, Of
whom thou did say that he will inherit
this world and the world to come, has
Nimrod burned in fire Immediately then
Gods mercy was moved, so that he des-
cended from the habitation cf his glory
his greatness, his majesty and the holt
ness of great name. and delivered
Abraham our ancestor from that shame,
from that reproach and from the fiery
furnace, as 1t is said, I am the Lord who
brought thee out of the fire of the Chal-
dcans'"
There has been a strange fascination
about the loss of the Ten Tribes of Israel
an account of the fate of those Ten Tribes
in various ways. There is a peculiarly
interesting legend respecting the so-called
children of Moses, connec ted. of course
with the exile of Northumberland When
they arrived in Babylon their enemies and
captors said to them, Sing us a song of
Zion and they replied, How can we
sing song of Zion upon strange ground?
Now retorted their captors, we shall
sing by force, but they at once cut off
their fingers with their teeth and cast
them before them. and they replied How
can those fingers, which struck the
strings of the heart and the temple, strike
them here in a strange land?' And God
exclaimed, IF 1 forget Jerusalem, my
right hand shall be forgotten A cloud
then descended, and, lifting all the chill
dren of Moses, with their sheep and cat
tie, brought them to the east of Havia.
In the night they We're let down, and on
that same night they heard a great noise
surrounding them, like that of a river
without hearing drop of water descend
ing, but heard only the rolling Of stones
and sand where there had never been
river. This river then rolled great stones
and the sand without any water, made
noise as If a great earthquake This
continued until the Sabbath The river
they called Sabbatyon or Sabbatianus On
the Sabbath 1t ceases to flow, and on the
eve of Sabbath a cloud ascends full of
smoke. No one is able to approach them,
neither do they approach them. There
are no wild beasts, no unclean animals
nor any reptiles or creeping things. Moth
ing except their hocks and herds. They
reap and SOW and they ask the others,
and thus they learn of the destruction of
the Second Temple" 1t is behind this re-
gion in which the children of Moses dwell
that the remnants of the Ten Tribes are
said 10 be found.
The Ten Lost Tribes.
1.-THE tribe of Issachar dwell on the
| mountains of the great deep in the neither
most parts Of Media and Persia and there
! they fulfill the commandment. The Book
| of Torah shall not depart from their
mouth; nor do they take upon themselves
| the yoke of any earthly kingdom, but
| only the yoke of heaven and the yoke of
! the law. They have many captains of he
| army, but never fight with any man, but
| discuss the Torah. They dwell in peace
! and tranquility and no rebellious thought
! of evil enters their minds. They possess
! a country whose area covers land of ten
days Journey and they have an abund-
| ance of cattle camels and servants, but
| do not bring the horses nor do they pos
! sess any warlike instruments except
| knives for preparing food and to kill the
animals for that purpose. They are men
! of great faith, hating oppression or rob
| berry. The children Of Zebulon encamp on
! the mountains of Paran and pitch their
| tents, made of the hair of Armania, and
stretch as far as the Euphrates. The
tribe of Reuben dwell opposite them, be-
hind the mountains of Paran, and be-
| tween them there is love, unity and peace
! The tribe of Ephraim and half the tribe of
! Menasseh dwell opposite the city of Meu-
/ qua" In a similar way each and every
/ one OF the Ten Tribes is located ia this
! fabulous region ITO the east of Havia
! which every Bible reader will easily con-
meet with the Garden of Eden as located
! by the second chapter of Genesis
Many legends of Moses. Daniel and nll
of the other famous Bible characters are
! included in this great chronicle 1t will
| attract the attention not only of schol-
airs who have found much that Is in
teresdng in the legendary law of Israel.
rejecting as 1t does the religious con-
| seriousness Of the people, but 1t will also
interest the mass Of the people. because
! of the peoples fahcies and sympathetic
| legends which are here recorded
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