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ABRAHAM TO MOSES. 97

he went away and left Abraham to sell his idols, When- ever a buyer came, Abraham asked him his age. If he replied, I am fifty, or sixty years old, Abraham said : ' Woe to the man of sixty who desires to worship the work of a day, so that the buyer went away ashamed.' * Once a woman came, with a dish of wheat and said, c Here, put this before them ; ' but Abraham took a stick and beat down all the .

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