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Abraham's Excellent Adventure

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The Story of the Lies of Father Abraham

The two of them carried the wood to the top on their backs, tied with lengths of rope cinched around their chest like the saddle had been around the burrow. They were all dehydrated even though it was only February and the desert wasn't getting hot yet but it sure was dry. Abraham touched his knife yet again, feeling it still there as hard and cruel as the voice that was commanding him to use it. He untied his cinch, and then Isaac's; they dropped their wood on a passable clump of rocks that would do for an altar. So where's the goat? Yahweh will provide one, Abraham said.

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