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Being led by the Spirit of the Lord, I found my father's house and entering the gate addressed the guard who was standing there saying, Behold, I am Abram, son of Terah, who hath spent these forty years in the house of Shem.
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Take me now to my father.
3
The guard stood as one dumbfounded knowing not what to make of such a greeting, but at length called a boy whom he dispatched to locate my father.
4
At length the lad returned followed closely by my father who was greatly surprised to see me, but who recognized me as his son by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord.
5
By this time my arrival had caused great excitement throughout my father's household which was very large and my mother, having heard of my coming hastened to the place where we were, weeping and rejoicing for she had thought that I had wandered from the cave and been slain by wild beasts in the wilderness.
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At length she led me away to her chamber to talk with me and I told her of all that had transpired with me since my leaving the cave—of my being led by the angel to the city of Shalom, of being instructed under the direction of Shem, of the increase of my family and of the mercies of the true God of heaven exercised in my behalf.
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I talked to her of the futility of worshiping idols of wood and stone made by men's hands which have no power in them and of the order of the ancients which was preserved in the city of Shalom under Noah and Shem which I had been sent to proclaim in the great city of Ur.