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The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
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ignorant people would have been blasted.

Then He came down in thunder and smoke and lightning and
earthquakes--which Cousin Bill J. read in tones that enabled Bernal to
feel every possible joy of terror; came to tell them that He was a very
jealous God and that they must not worship any of the other gods. He
commanded that "thou shalt not revile the Gods," also that they should
"make no mention of the names of other Gods," which Cousin Bill J. said
was as fair as you could ask.

When they reached the directions for sacrificing, the little boy was
doubly alert--in the event that he should ever determine to be washed in
the blood of the lamb and have to do his own killing.

"Then," read Cousin Bill J., in a voice meant to convey the augustness of
Deity, "thou shalt kill the ram and take of his blood and put it upon the
tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tip of the right ear of his
sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of
their right foot." So you didn't have to wash all over in the blood. He
agreed with Clytie, who remarked that no one could ever have found out how
to do it right unless God had told. The God-given directions that ensued
for making the water of separation from "the ashes of a red heifer" he did
not find edifying; but some verses after that seemed more practicable.
"And thou shalt take of the ram," continued the reader in majestic
cadence, "the fat and the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards, and
the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon
them--"

Here was detail with a satisfying minuteness; and all this was for
"a wave-offering" to be waved before the Lord--which was indeed an
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