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|1 Reyes 18:27|
At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or travelling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
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|1 Reyes 18:28|
So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed.
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|1 Reyes 18:29|
Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no-one answered, no-one paid attention.
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30
|1 Reyes 18:30|
Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins.
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|1 Reyes 18:31|
Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.”
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|1 Reyes 18:32|
With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench round it large enough to hold two seahs [That is, probably about 26 pints (about 15 litres)] of seed.
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|1 Reyes 18:33|
He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”
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|1 Reyes 18:34|
“Do it again,” he said, and they did it again. “Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time.
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|1 Reyes 18:35|
The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
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|1 Reyes 18:36|
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
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