The History of the Knife of Abraham

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After we, with the help of geometric constructions based on the prophecy of Ezekiel, were able to accurately determine the location of the future altar of the Third Temple, and after we found on this very place something reminiscent of the ruins of the ancient altar, it is time to look into the details of the sacrifice of Abraham in the land of Moriah.



First, we determined the distance from Be'er Sheva to Jerusalem, because according to Judaic traditions, it was at Mount Moriah in Jerusalem that the sacrifice of Abraham, described in Genesis 22, was performed. And although the distance in a straight line from Be'er Sheva to Jerusalem is only 72 kilometers (45 mi), the actual route along the highway from Be'er Sheva to Jerusalem today is 100-112 kilometers (62-70 mi).

The average daily path of a person is 40 kilometers. The donkey also moves with the speed of a pedestrian, and it is unlikely that you can make it go more than 40 kilometers in one day.

According to the book of Genesis, Abraham set out early in the morning, and came to the place of sacrifice on the third day. In the remaining time he and his son were to build an altar, and then it was necessary to make a sacrifice before sunset. Therefore, we can assume that the entire journey of Abraham took just over two days.  Go more than 100 kilometers to Jerusalem, he just would not have had time.

The distance from Be'er Sheva to the place we found in the Judean Desert is only 50 km (31 mi) in a straight line. If we take the same coefficient that we have by calculating the ratio of the distance along the line to the length of the actual path between Be'er Sheva and Jerusalem, then the real path from Be'er Sheva to the place we found in the Judean Desert is about 73 km (45 mi).

Given that in the time of Abraham the road could squirm more than the modern freeway, the real path of Abraham could be even greater, so the place we found is much more suitable as a possible place for Abraham's sacrifice than what the Jewish tradition tries to impose on us.

The second factor that could make the sacrifice of Abraham impossible at the site of the future threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite is that there was a nearby city where people lived. It is strange to imagine that Abraham would have decided to sacrifice his son in public, before the eyes of the townspeople, who would certainly have gathered to look at this spectacle.

But the most important argument against the version of Jerusalem as a place of Abraham's sacrifice, is that the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite in the Bible called the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, and not called the land of Moriah, and not called Jehovah-Jireh.

I want you to notice that in Genesis this place is called "the land of Moriah", and in 2 Chronicles the place where Solomon built the Temple is called "Mount Moriah".

Now that we have realized that the place we have found is really fit for the sacrifice of Abraham in the land of Moriah described in the book of Genesis, we will put ourselves in the place of Abraham and consider in detail all the actions that he had to perform on that great day.

Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

(Gen. 22:6)

Abraham took wood, fire and a knife. At that time, people had not yet invented matches, and to light a fire - this was quite a serious matter.

The construction of the altar also required a lot of time and effort.

When instead of his son as a sacrifice Abraham was given a ram, it took some time for this ram to be slaughtered, divided into parts, and certain parts of the carcass should have been burned on the fire on the altar.

When the sacrifice was completed, then Abraham had one more thing to do: it was necessary to bury the remains of the ram's carcass: skin, horns, hooves, guts. Abraham could not burn these remains of the ram on the altar, and in order to burn these remains elsewhere, Abraham needed fire and wood. The fire on the altar was sacred and using this fire to burn waste would be blasphemy. Just throwing these wastes somewhere in the side would also be a bad decision: the remains of the sacrifice would be eaten by predatory birds and jackals.

There was only one correct solution: it was necessary to dig a sufficiently deep pit and throw all the remains of the sacrificial ram into it, and top it with earth, stones, and it is imperative to put a big and heavy stone on top.

And Abraham had another specific problem: he had to destroy his knife.
First, after the sacrifice, this knife also became the shrine of the Lord. This knife could no longer be used in everyday affairs.

Secondly, for Abraham this knife became terrible, because this knife was once raised over his son's head.
There was only one way out: Abraham had to hide this knife, bury it with the remains of the sacrificial ram. And then that, by chance, this knife did not go to some random person, this sacred and terrible knife had to be broken, blunted, brought to the utter worthlessness. It was possible, for example, to use this knife when digging a pit in the hard desert ground.

The burial place for the remains of the sacrificial ram could not be too close to the altar. And this place could not be too far: the servants expected Abraham behind the hill. It is unlikely that Abraham went in the eastern, northern or southern direction, in search of a place where the remains of the sacrificial ram could be buried. The servants were waiting for Abraham in the western side, following this path and it was necessary to find a suitable place for burial of the remains of the sacrificial ram.

Abraham and his son dug a pit from the west side a few dozen meters from the altar, Abraham threw a broken knife and the remains of the sacrificial ram into this pit, and from above they overturned a large stone.
And I can assume one more essential thing.

The Lord God foresaw everything in advance. The Lord God saw everything that was to come about in the future.

The Lord saw Ezekiel, to whom he showed this place afterwards. The Lord saw the Temple, which will be built thousands of years after Ezekiel. The Lord knew that before building any building, in modern Israel archaeologists come to the place of future construction. And the Lord knew that the fragments of the bronze knife, which, perhaps, was donated to Abraham by the pharaoh, will be found by archaeologists, and then the place of this find can become a place of pilgrimage, and it would not be good.

And if Abraham had buried the remains of the sacrificial ram in the place of the future House of God, it would also be bad.

And the Lord showed Abraham the only acceptable place for burial of waste, a place on the territory of the future inner court of the Temple, a place where similar remains of sacrificial animals would be piled up in the Third Temple.



And so, we drew the drawing of the Third Temple, we determined the coordinates of the altar of this Temple, we found a hill similar to the ruins of the ancient altar on the southern slope of the mountain, and now we can specify the place where the stone should be located, under which Abraham hid the wreckage of his sacred and a terrible knife.

Oh!

Yes, I almost forgot. In addition to the knife, the horns and hoofs that were petrified there, radiocarbon analysis, 2050 ± 50 BC. etc.

Forgive me for my bad English. Correct in the comments my mistakes, please.