PHILO THE JEW

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...with the sides into the furnace of fire. But God stirred up a great earthquake, and the fire boiling from the furnace leaped into flames and sparks of flame, and it burned all those standing around in sight of the furnace. And all who were burned on that day were 84,000. But for Abram, not even a small injury was caused by the burning of the fire. And Abram arose from the furnace, and he leveled the furnace of fire. And Abram was saved, and he went to the eleven men who were hidden in the mountains, and he reported to them all things that had happened to him. And they ascended with him from the mountains, rejoicing in the name of the Lord, and no one meeting them terrified them on that day. And they named that place by the name of Abram, and in the language of the Chaldeans, Deli God. And it came to pass after these words, the people of the land did not turn from their malignant thoughts. And they gathered again to the leaders and said: "In the ages the people will not be conquered. And now let us gather and build for ourselves a city and a tower that will never be taken away." And when they had begun to build, God saw the city and the tower which the sons of men were building, and said: "Behold, one people and one language, and this which they have begun to do, the earth will not endure, nor will the heavens, seeing it, suffer it. And it will be, if they are not now prohibited, that they will dare all things which they have presumed to do. And therefore, behold, I will divide their languages and scatter them into all regions, so that no one will know his brother, nor will they hear the language of their neighbor. And I will entrust them to the rocks, and they will build for themselves tabernacles of reed-stubble, and they will dig caves for themselves, and they will dwell there like wild beasts of the field. And thus they will be before my sight at all times, so that they will never think these things. And I will consider them as a drip of water, and I will approach them with a shield, and for some, the end will come in water; but others will be dried up by thirst."
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And before all these, I will choose my servant Abram, and I will cast him out from their territory, and I will bring him into the land which my eye looked upon from the beginning, when
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all the inhabitants of the earth sinned before my sight. And I brought the water of the flood, and I did not exterminate it, but preserved it. For the fountains of my wrath were not broken in it, nor did the water of my consummation descend into it. There indeed I will make my servant Abram dwell, and I will dispose my covenant with him, and I will bless his seed, and I will be his God forever. But the peoples inhabiting the earth, when they had begun to build the tower, God divided their languages and changed their appearances. And no one knew his brother, nor did they hear the language of their neighbor. And thus it happened: that while the builders commanded their assistants to bring stones, they would bring water; and if they demanded water, they would bring stubble. And thus, their thinking being interrupted, they ceased to build the city, and the Lord scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth.
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And therefore the name of that place was called Confusion, because there God confused their languages, and from there scattered them over the face of the whole earth. But Abram went out from there, and dwelt in the land of Canaan, and took with him Lot the son of his brother, and Sarai his wife. And when Sarai was barren, and there was no conception for her, then Abram took Hagar his handmaid, and she bore him Ishmael. But Ishmael fathered twelve sons. Then Lot departed from Abram and dwelt in Sodom; but Abram dwelt in the land of Cam. And the men of Sodom were very wicked men and sinners. And God appeared to Abram saying: "To your seed I will give this land, and your name will be called Abraham, and Sarai your wife will be called Sara. And I will give you from her an everlasting seed, and I will dispose my covenant with you." And Abraham knew Sara his wife, and she conceived and bore Isaac. But Isaac took for himself a wife from Mesopotamia, the daughter of Patuel, who conceived and bore...