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Let us now praise men of splendor, our fathers according to their generations.
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Yahuah created abundant splendor, His greatness from the age.
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They ruled within their kingdoms and were renowned in might; they counseled by their understanding and declared through prophecies.
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They led the people by counsels and understanding of the people’s writings; wise words were within their instruction.
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They sought out melodies of music and recounted verses in writing.
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They were wealthy men supplied with strength, living in shalom within their dwellings.
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All these received splendor in their generations and were a boast in their days.
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Some of them left a name so that praises might be recounted.
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Of others there is no remembrance; they perished as though they had not existed, becoming as though they had not been born, and their children after them.
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But these were men of compassion whose righteous deeds were not forgotten.
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With their seed remains a good inheritance in their offspring.
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Their seed stood within the Covenants, and their children because of them.
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Their seed remains unto the age, and their splendor shall not be wiped away.
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Their bodies were buried in shalom, and their name lives for generations.
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Peoples recount their Wisdom, and the assembly declares their praise.
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Chanokh pleased Yahuah and was transferred, an example of turning back for generations.
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Noach was found complete and righteous; in an appointed time of wrath he became an exchange. Because of him a remnant was left for the earth when the flood came.
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Everlasting Covenants were established with him, that all flesh should not again be wiped away by a flood.
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Avraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and none was found like him in splendor.
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He guarded the Torah of El Elyon and entered into Covenant with Him. In his flesh He established the Covenant, and in testing he was found trustworthy.
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Therefore by an oath He established for him that nations should be blessed in his seed, that He would multiply him like dust of the earth, raise his seed like the stars, and give them inheritance from sea to sea and from the River to the end of the earth.
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With Yitzchaq He likewise established it because of Avraham his father.
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The blessing of all Adam and the Covenant He caused to rest upon the head of Yaaqov. He acknowledged him within His blessings and gave him an inheritance. He divided his portions and apportioned them among twelve tribes.