[1281] They were placed before the Apostles, and these, having prayed, laid their hands on them.

[1282] And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you: you will be blind, and you will not see the sun until the time comes. And suddenly darkness and darkness fell upon him, and he turned hither and thither, looking for a guide.

[1283] Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless;

[1284] And all his sons and all his daughters were gathered together to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, and said, "With sorrow I will go down to my son into hell." Thus his father mourned him.

[1285] And may God Almighty grant you to find mercy from a man, that he may release to you also your other brother and Benjamin, and if I am already childless, let me be childless.

[1286] And he bought a part of the field in which he pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred coins.

[1287] And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought out of Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in a piece of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred coins, and which went to the sons of Joseph as an inheritance.

[1288] My father cursed me, saying, Behold, I am dying; in my tomb, which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there bury me. And now I would like to go and bury my father and return. [Joseph's words were recounted to Pharaoh.]

[1289] And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have made me angry, making me hateful to the inhabitants of this land, to the Canaanites and Perizzites." I have few people; they shall gather against me, they shall smite me, and I and my house shall be destroyed.

[1290] Simeon and Levi are brothers, their swords are instruments of cruelty; Let not my soul enter into their counsel, and let not my glory be joined to their assembly, for in their anger they killed a man, and cut the sinews of the calf at their whim.

[1291] And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be set at the head of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it.

[1292] The Lord's fiery wrath will not be turned away until He has done and fulfilled the intentions of His heart. In the last days you will understand this.

[1293] And you will rise up against my people, against Israel, like a cloud to cover the land: it will be in the last days, and I will bring you to my land, that the nations may know me, when I am over you, Gog, and I will show my holiness in their eyes.

[1294] And now I have come to tell you what will happen to your people in the last times, for the vision belongs to distant days."