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One letter in this word changed would make the word "blind," which is what Isaiah uses in the passage alluded to.) "can now see out of obscurity and out of darkness" (Isa.xxix.

18).
Therefore "I arose" (Judges v.

7) and wrote this book, "Toledoth Adam" ("the generations of man," Gen.v.

1), to teach the children of my people, the seed of Jacob, the Torah (instruction) which thou hast given for an inheritance to all the nations of the earth.
And I have "proceeded to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder" (Isa.xxix.

14), enabling them now to read in the Torah of Moses our teacher, "plainly and giving the sense" (Neh.viii.


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