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At the end of thirteen years, the Lord appeared unto me and he said unto me, Abraham, Because thou hast been faithful in all things unto me from the time thou wast three years old, and behold, now thou art ninety and nine, therefore I will establish my covenant with thee for with thee I shall commence a new dispensation of the gospel that from this time forth all those who would be sealed into me must be sealed into thee.
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Wherefore, I will send Noah unto thee in the tabernacle, and he will bestow upon thee the keys cf this priesthood, for the city of Melchizedek will I take up from off the earth and there will be a new beginning in thee.
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For I will greatly multiply thy seed and I will make them my ministers that through thy priesthood all the peoples of the earth shall be blessed.
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Therefore, from this time forth shall every male child among you be circumcised in that his foreskin shall be opened in token of the opening of his heart to the light of the gospel.
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And on the eighth day shall ye do it that ye may remember that on the eighth year they shall be baptized that the blessings of the gospel may come upon them.
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This is according to the covenant I made with Adam in the garden of Eden, but I instructed Noah and Shem not to administer this covenant unto thee that thou mightest receive it in token of this new covenant which I make with thee.
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Although I gave these ordinances in the beginning unto Adam, yet the sons of men have continually gone astray from my precepts and have not kept mine ordinances which I gave unto their fathers.
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They have neglected the ordinance of baptism which I commanded unto them in token of the burial of the natural man and have ceased to receive the anointing whereby they become kings and priests unto me.
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Yea, they have turned from my commandments and changed mine ordinances and have replaced baptism with the washing of children which they call baptism.
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But, behold, this is no baptism for I will atone for the fall of Adam; wherefore, little children are innocent until they reach the age of accountability.
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But the sons of men have rejected mine atonement wherein I will offer mine Only Begotten Son for the sins of the world, for they say that the blood of righteous Abel was shed for sins, thereby rejecting me as their Savior.
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But thou hast upheld mine ordinances. Therefore, thy seed shall sprinkle all nations, for thou shalt be a father of many nations.
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And thou shalt be fruitful and many nations shall come of thee and kings of nations shall be of thy seed.
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Moreover, ye shall not cut yourselves in your foreskins after the manner of the heathen, for this is the lesser law and applyeth only to those who have had part of the gospel cut off from that which they have received.
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But your hearts are opened to the fullness of my gospel wherefore your foreskins shall be opened.
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For if it were profitable for you to be without a foreskin, then would your father beget you in your mother without a foreskin.
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Take not ye away what God hath given.
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But let your foreskins be opened, for this is the true circumcision and it will be profitable unto you as a covenant written in your flesh which shall be an everlasting covenant.
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Your daughters also shall be circumcised upon the marriage bed when the matrix is opened by the entrance of her husband, for this is an holy ordinance, and it is completed at the birth of her firstborn; wherefore it is written that the firstborn which openeth the matrix is holy because it is an instrument in the performance of an holy ordinance.
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Now, go into the tabernacle and fast and pray until Noah cometh to bestow upon thee the keys of which I have spoken.