Identifier: childsstoryofold00phil (find matches)
Title: A child's story of the Old Testament in words of one syllable;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, H. Altemus company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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eysaid, Let us build a tow-er of brick whose topmay reach the sky, and be a land mark for us,lest we be spread over the face of the whole earth. God saw the work and the wicked thoughtsin their hearts, and was wroth with them. Hemade them all speak in a strange way ; this tribecould not tell what that tribe said ; and this mancould not tell that man what to do ; so at lastthey had to stop work. There was so muchnoise, that the pile they started to build wascalled the Tow-er of Ba-bel. Now a son of one of the sons of Shem, a sonof No-ah, dwelt in the land of Ur. His name-wasA-bram and he was a good man and tried to servethe Lord, but the men of that land did not servethe true God. They bowed down to false godsand were so bad that God said to A-bram : Leavethis place, and your home, and your friends andgo to the place to which I shall show you the way.And I will make you the head, of great na-tion,and I will bless you and bless those who blessyou, and curse those who curse you ; and the
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A-BRAM AND THE AN-GELS. 20 A CHILDS STORY OF THE BIBLE. best that a man can wish for his friend will bethat he may be as well off as A-bram. So A-bram took his wife Sa-ra-i and Lot, hisbrothers son and went to the land of Shech-em.A-bram and Lot were both rich men and as therewas not room in that place for all their flocks andherds A-bram said it would be best for them topart; so he told Lot to choose which way hewould go, and Lot chose the rich plain of Sod-omwhere there was much grass for his sheep toeat, and wells and springs from which theymight drink. When Lot had gone God came to A-bram ina dream and told him he should have a son in hisold age and that his heirs should be as many asthe stars in the sky, and should own all that land.One day as A-bram sat at the door of his tenthe saw three men near him and he asked themto rest in the shade of a tree while he broughtthem food and drink. Then the men (it is saidthat two of them were an-gels and one was theLord in the form of a man)

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