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 "title": "Parable of the Old Men and the Young",
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    "text": "So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,",
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   {
    "text": "And took the fire with him, and a knife.",
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    "text": "And as they sojourned both of them together,",
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   {
    "text": "Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,",
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   {
    "text": "Behold the preparations, fire and iron,",
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    "text": "But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?",
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    "text": "Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,",
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    "text": "And builded parapets and trenches there,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.",
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   {
    "text": "When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,",
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   {
    "text": "Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,",
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    "text": "Neither do anything to him. Behold,",
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   {
    "text": "A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;",
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    "text": "Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.",
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    "text": "But the old man would not so, but slew his son.⁠ ⁠…",
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