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Show to.-.-' ? HE THAT HATH EARS, LET HIM, HEAR, ')' ' -o - H -''i-'iff ..Continued. -7 I Jlplne an( -SyP was; first dis- I dL coverec ky a woman, who was H the daughter of Ham, and the H daughter of Egyptus, which in the i & 'k - ! Ohaidee signifiesEgypt, which Jig-!nifies; Jig-!nifies; thai; whi'cli is forbidden. When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterwards after-wards settled -her sons in it; and. thus, from Ham, sprang- that t race which preseiwed" the curse inv' the .land. Now the first government of ' Egypt, wbs established by Pharaoh, tlie eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it AVas after ; the' manner of the goyernment of Ham,': which was Patriarchal. Pharaoh Pha-raoh being a righteous man, established estab-lished his kingdom and judged his people' wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly , to, imitate that order established by the fathers fath-ers in the first generations, in the first Patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, -who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, .and with the blessings of wisdom, but cui-sed him as pertaining to the Priesthood. Priest-hood. , Now, Pharaoh being of .that lineage lin-eage by which ,he could not have the. right of PriesthooSl, Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the Phar.aohsJ would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away 15y. their idolatry; but I shall endeavor, en-deavor, hexeafter, to delineate the chronology, running ba.ck from myself my-self to the beginning of the creation, crea-tion, for the records have come into in-to my hands, which I hold unto this present time. . t . Now, after ihe priest of Elkenah was smitten that he died, there came a fulfillment of those things which were' said unto mo concerning concern-ing the land of Chaldea, that there-should there-should be a; famine ;rin . he land. Accordingly a famine prev.'iled throughout all the land of Ohaldea,. and my father was sorely tormented torment-ed because of , the famine, and he repented of the evil which he had determined against me, to take a-way a-way my life.' . But the records of the fathers, even the Patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood; the Lord :rny God preserved in mine own hands, therefore a knowledge knowl-edge of the'beginning of the crea-tion,;'.and crea-tion,;'.and fllsq of the. planets, and of the Stars, as they were made knowir unto the fathers, 'have I kept even unto this day, -and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon up-on this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall cpme after me. ... Tp be contiaued, . . ' : " : . ' ' |