1
While Malki-Tsedeq traveled, understanding arose within him.
2
He lifted his eyes and examined the heavens: the sun in its course, the moon in its measure, and the ordered host of stars.
3
He reasoned: ‘These lights are visible, bounded, and made. They do not establish themselves.’
4
‘There must be One hidden from sight who formed them and set their order above.’
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‘Sacrifice belongs to the Maker of heaven and earth, not to the works that the Maker formed.’
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So he turned back without the bulls, determined to speak this judgment before his father.