Kebra Nagast

household, and councillors of His glory and of the Tabernacle of His covenant. And as for a country, we say that He hath chosen no country except ours, but now we see that the country of Ethiopia is better than the country of Judah. And from the time that we arrived in your country everything that we have seen hath appeared good to us. Your waters are good and they are given without price (or, payment), and [we have] air without fans, and wild honey is as [plentiful as] the dust of the market place, and cattle as the sand of the sea. And as for what we have seen there is nothing detestable, and there is nothing malign in what we hear, and in what we walk upon, and in what we touch, and But there is one matter that we would mention are black of face, ye and I only mention this because I have seen it, and if God lighteth up your hearts there is nothing that can do harm." you " And withdraw ye yourselves from meat that dieth of itself, and from blood, and from bodies torn by wild animals, and from fornication, and from everything that in what we taste with our mouths. : God hateth, so that we may rejoice in you when we see you fearing God and trembling at His word even as God commanded our fathers and said unto Moses, ; ' Give them commands about everything, and tell them to keep Law and Ordinance. 1? And turn ye not aside, neither to the right hand nor to the left, from My My and now [we that^ which we command you this day command] you that ye worship God, the Holy One of ; for He hath rejected Israel, and do His good pleasure our nation even as our prophets prophesied, and hath chosen you. Doth not God your Creator belong to all of you ? In what will God find it difficult if He loveth us and hateth them ? For everything belongeth to Him, and everything is His handiwork, and there is nothing impossible for the Lord God of Israel. ; 1 156 Compare Deuteronomy iv, I.