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I continued: 'Fire is more powerful than carved images, because it consumes them. Yet water overcomes fire and satisfies the earth.
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But I do not call water El, because earth receives it and directs its course. Earth also is not El, for the sun dries it and Adam tills it.
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The sun is greater than earth in brightness, yet night and clouds conceal it. The moon and stars also lose their light according to their appointed times.
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Hear me, Terach my father: I seek the One who made all these - the One who reddened the heavens at evening, clothed the sun with gold, gave the moon and stars their light, bounded the waters, established the earth, formed Adam, and …
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May the true El reveal Himself by His own power.'