[Joshua Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookJoshua Complete CHAPTER XV 13/17
But when the sum of that day was nearing the western horizon, the dogs began to bark loudly, and when I went to the door a powerful man, with tangled grey hair and beard, clad in the tattered white robes of a priest, hurried toward me.
The dogs shrank back whining; but I recognized my brother. "Our meeting after so long a separation at first brought me more fear than pleasure; for Moses was flying from the officers of the law because he had slain the overseer.
You know the story. "Wrath still glowed in his flashing eyes.
He seemed to me like the god Seth in his fury, and each one of his slow words was graven upon my soul as by a hammer and chisel.
Thrice seven days and nights he remained under my roof, and as I was alone with him and deaf Rachel, and he was compelled to remain concealed, no one came between us, and he taught me to know Him who is the God of our fathers. "Trembling and despairing, I listened to his powerful words, which seemed to fall like rocks upon my breast, when he admonished me of God's requirements, or described the grandeur and wrath of Him whom no mind can comprehend, and no name can describe.
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