Aggada -- Translations into English; Bible. Old Testament -- Legends; Jewish legends; Midrash -- Translations into English
"Therefore, my sons, I command you not to join yourselves unto the sons
of Joseph, but ye shall join yourselves unto the sons of Levi and
Judah. I tell you, too, that my inheritance shall be of the best of
Palestine, the middle of the earth. You will eat, and the delectable
gifts of my portion will satisfy you. But I warn you not to kick in
your prosperity and not to become perverse, resisting the commands of
God, who satisfies you with the best of His land, and not to forget
your God, whom your father Abraham chose when the families of the earth
were divided in the days of Peleg. The Lord descended with seventy
angels, at their head Michael, and he commanded them to teach the
seventy languages unto the seventy families of Noah. The angels did
according to the behest of God, and the holy Hebrew language remained
only in the house of Shem and Eber, and in the house of their
descendant Abraham. On this day of teaching languages, Michael came to
each nation separately, and told it the message with which God had
charged him, saying: 'I know the rebellion and the confusion ye have
enacted against God. Now, make choice of him whom you will serve, and
whom will you have as your mediator in heaven?' Then spake Nimrod the
wicked, 'In my eyes there is none greater than he that taught me the
language of Cush.' The other nations also answered in words like these,
each one designated its angel. But Abraham said: 'I choose none other
than Him that spake and the world was. In Him I will have faith, and my
seed forever and ever.' Thenceforth God put every nation in the care of
its angel, but Abraham and his seed He kept for Himself.
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