5V

5V

"You may eat the seed of them, even that seed which you would otherwise save to plant the next crop, because what I have done to them does not alter the underlying principle which governs the life of the plants. This is by the design of our God, lest the stalks which are so changed should fill Heaven and displace the original. Therefore, attend most carefully: you must make cuttings of the plants after harvest time and preserve them through the winter in your homes, in pots, as though they were cuttings as from a bush of roses. These cuttings you will plant in the springtime. This you must do until God himself through the Ark leads you at last to the land he promised your fathers."

The next morning the Roshites beheld the health of their crops and knew everything Kushiel had told them was true. Then Kushiel departed for the other world, and the Judahites and Levites dwelt together nigh to the sea for many years. There they founded a settlement they named Suhar.

There were much going to and fro between the Roshites of Suhar and their brethren who stayed behind in Shedal, and also much trade. Then Omar waxed old, like his father before him. When he saw he was soon to die he appointed his son Abidan to be the High Priest and to record the history of the Remnant in the White Scroll. Then Omar slept with his fathers, and for all his days he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.

As high priest Abidan said it was the commandment of their God that the people should make many blades of bronze, "Lest by any means those who seek the Ark should chance upon us here and destroy us." But these blades turned he against the Benjaminites who remained in Shedal and he led the men of the city to march against their separated brothers and demand tribute, which thing was never commanded by Bat-El.

Then Bat-El sent the Benjaminites succor by sending to them another of the B'nei Elohim named Raphaela, who had been the chief lieutenant of Queen Lilith in the days of the dragon.

A heavy rain fell on the battlefield on the morning when the army from Suhar came against Shedal. Raphaela knelt with both hands pressed against the ground, caused this rain to freeze wheresoever it touched the field. The Levites and Judahites therefore were made to slip and fall, while the Benjaminites stood their ground behind Raphaela and released many arrows.

Thus Abidan, who did evil in the sight of the Lord, was slain, along with many others among the Levites and Judahites. And this battle of Remnant against Remnant was hateful to God Most High.