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Title: The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Foster, William A. (from old catalog)
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come back to them again; for he did not -wish them to see himoffer up his son. And he left the ass with the young men, but took Isaac withhim, and Isaac carried the wood. Abraham took some fire also to lightthe wood, and he carried a knife in his hand; and he and Isaac went ontogether. And they came to the place which God had told him of; there Abraham built an altar and laid the wood on it. And he bound Isaac and laid him on the wood; and Abraham put out his hand and took hold of the knife to kill his son. But just then the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven, and said Abraham, Abraham. He answered, Here am I. And the angel told him not to hurt Isaac, for now he knew that Abraham feared God, because he was willing to offer up his only son when God commanded him. And Abraham looked and saw behind him a ram caught fast in the bushes by its horns. God had sent it there for a burnt offering instead of Isaac; and Abraham took it and killed it, and offered it up on the altar. 32
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ABRAHAM AXD ISAAC GO TOGETHER TO THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE. QQ I .1 NKSIS XXII. It. Sarah Dies and is Buried. />OD was pleased -with Abraham for having shown that he was ready toV_X obey him, and the angel of the Lord spoke to him again out of heaven,and told him that because he had been -willing to offer up his son Isaac, Godwould bless him. And the angel promised him that his descendants should belike the grains of sand on the sea-shore, which no one can count, there are somany of them. After these things Abraham left Beer-sheba and came to Hebron. AndSarah, Abrahams -wife, -was a hundred and twenty-seven years old, and she diedthere in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham mourned and wept for her. Andhe spoke to the people of that country, and asked them for a place where hemight bury Sarah. They answered that he might bury her in any of theirsepulchres that he chose. Sepulchres are places in -which dead xoersons are buried. In that countrythey were made by hollo-wing out a cave in the

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