Book V - Snyder Bible

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showed him also what belonged to his race and posterity, and
promised him that those districts should be restored rather
than given to them.
Chapter XXXIII: Avraham: His Posterity
am, when he was desirous to learn the
causes of things, and was intently pondering upon what had
been told him, the true Prophet Yahshua appeared to him,
who alone knows the hearts and purpose of men, and disclosed
to him all things which he desired. He taught him the
knowledge of the Divinity; intimated the origin of the world,
and likewise its end; showed him the immortality of the spirit,
and the manner of life which was pleasing to Yahweh; declared
also the resurrection of the dead, the future judgment,
the reward of the good, the punishment of the evilall to be
regulated by righteous judgment: and having given him all this
information plainly and sufficiently, He departed again to the
invisible abodes. But while Avraham was still in ignorance, as
we said to you before, two sons...of whom the one was called
Ishmael, and the other Eliezer, whom he adopted. From the
one are descended the barbarous nations, from the other the
people of the Persians, some of whom have adopted the manner
of living and the institutions of their neighbors, the
Brachmans. Others settled in Arabia, of whose posterity some
also have spread into Egypt. From them some of the Indians
and of the Egyptians have learned to be circumcised, and to be
of purer observance than others, although in process of time
most of them have turned to impiety what was the proof and
Chapter XXXIV: The Yisraelites in Egypt
while he still lived in ignorance of things, having received the
knowledge of Yahweh, he asked of the Righteous One that he
might merit to have offspring by Sarah, who was his lawful
wife, though she was barren. She obtained a son, whom he
named Yitzchak, from whom came , and from him the