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"Then John sickened and said: 'Bring me into the room of silence. ' So they brought him to the place where they sat each day to converse with God in the holy stillness and hear His voice.
"Then John said: 'I am about to depart from among you, and before my going I put this command on you that you find in the world a male infant too young to know its father or mother, or without father and mother living. Rear that child to manhood in the valley, for even as I depart so will you all do, and the Garden of Eden will be left tenantless.'