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Book of the Arc of Bon

Chapter 20

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Moses called together the Heads and the rab’bahs, privately, and spoke before them, saying:

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What have I taken upon me, O Jehovih? Behold Your sons and daughters have followed me out of Egupt; how shall I bind them to You and not to me, O my Father in heaven?

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Jehovih said to me: Moses, Moses, what I say to you, say to the rab’bahs and to the Heads; saying to them: Not Moses, nor the Heads, nor the rab’bahs, brought you out of Egupt; you were brought out by the Creator, Jehovih, Who is God of all, Captain of all, Head of all, Rab’bah of all.

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For in this I have drawn the line between My people and My enemies, the idolaters of men. Because of signs and miracles, the idolaters make a man-God of their magician and worship him. But who is like you, Moses, My son; in miracles, who can match you in the magnitude of your proceeding?

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Who led forth My millions; and delivered them out of a great power without loss of a man, woman or child?

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But I declare to you, you shall do a greater miracle than any of these; for you shall preserve yourself from becoming an idol before men. For you shall proclaim Me to your people in all things; teaching them that you are only a man. And your Heads and your rab’bahs shall likewise teach them the same, for I will put away all idolatry from the face of the earth.

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Neither will I have kings nor queens; I am sufficient for all men.

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As Abraham apportioned My people into families [communities –Ed.], with rab’bahs and with chief rab’bahs, so shall you re-establish them.

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And My commandments, which I gave to Abraham, I will give to you; and I will re-establish My crescent with My rab’bahs. And My crescent shall be the fullness of My law for the rab’bahs and chief rab’bahs.

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Moses said: I cried to Jehovih, saying: How shall it be with the square and at high noon? And the angel of Jehovih, speaking in the Father’s name, said: To the northeast God; to the southwest Lord; to the northwest Baal; to the southeast Ashtaroth. For Osiris is dead already.

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To this end, then, prepare a place for tonight, so that the Great Spirit may bless us. The rab’bahs and the Heads said: It is well.

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And when it was night Moses with the rab’bahs and the Heads went aside, placing sentinels so they would be alone. And when they were thus prepared, the light of Jehovih came upon Moses, and the books of the ancients were opened before him. And he administered Emethachavah upon them; by the voice of Jehovih he re-established it; with all the rites and ceremonies as they are to this day. And after that the Heads were no longer called Heads, but Chief Rab’bahs; for Moses anointed them by command of Jehovih.

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And in not many days, Moses wrote the Levitican laws; for the inner temple of Jehovih was in spoken words only; but the outer temple was written. So that it was said: The Hebrews have two laws; one which no other man knows, and one for those who are not eligible by faith, being those who were called Leviticans; but not Leviticans in fact, but hangers-on, who had followed the Israelites out of Egupt and who for the most part had no God, little judgment and no learning.

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But regarding all that Moses did, and taught, and how he labored with his own hands, many books could be written. And it is doubtful if the world ever produced another so good and great a man.

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At the time Moses reached Shakelmarath he was forty-four years old by the Hebrew sun (solar year), but by the Eguptian calendar he was eighty-eight years old.

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As for Pharaoh and those of his hosts who were not destroyed in the sea, they returned home to their places. And not long after that, Pharaoh banished God (Osiris) from the earth, declaring himself the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, and VICE-GERENT OF THE HOLY GHOST.

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Pharaoh’s scribes and recorders assembled in Kaona, and they appointed Feh-ya (an Eguptian), to write the departure of the Israelites out of Egupt. And Feh-ya wrote the account and called it the EXODUS OF THE HEBREWS, and it was recorded in the king’s House of Records. And copies of it were sent to the large cities, and there recorded also, for such was the law of Egupt. Feh-ya’s record was afterward accepted by Ezra, and is that which is known to this day as the First Book of Exodus.

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The Book of Genesis, as it stood in the Eguptian records, was written by Akaboth and Dueram and Hazed, and was the substance from which Ezra copied it through his scribes, even as it is to this day. The inspiration of Genesis was from the God Osiris, the false, and his emissaries, chief of whom were Yotabba and Egupt, who were angel servants to Osiris. And so far as the records now stand, the spirit of both books was the Eguptian version of the whole subject.

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Touching genealogies, in which men seemed to have lived to so great an age, this, then, is the explanation for it:

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Thothma had said to his recorders: In searching for the truth of legends, give the latitude of it. For one legend will say, such a man lived seven hundred years ago; another legend will say he lived one thousand fifty years ago. The latitude between them is, therefore, three hundred fifty years, which shall be the time of that man’s life. || And in this way latitude became confounded with fact, and with no intent to deceive.

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And behold, it came to pass that the records were worthless; and to make matters worse the records were so voluminous, being more than six thousand books, that the scribes of Ezra could make neither head nor tail of them. Nevertheless, they were all written, in the first place not by the Israelites, but by their enemies, where, even so, the testimony of the miracles is none the weaker.

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Thus ends the history of Moses’ deliverance of the Faithists out of Egupt.

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Hear now of Chine of the land of Jaffeth:

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Moses
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