Abraham’s Tent

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I wrote this essay my last semester in college for the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, a very prestigious essay contest. It made it into the top 50 essays. Which, considering there were over 3,000 submissions was pretty good, even if it didn’t win. I later won 2nd place in a BYU Studies essay contest…

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“God Liveth and Seeth Me” by Elspeth Young Genesis 16; 21:9-21; 25:12 Galatians 4:22-31 D&C 132: 34, 65 Background: After many years in the wilderness, including a brief sojourn in Egypt (Gen. 12), Abram and Sarai were still childless. In Genesis 15 the Lord came to Abram and told him “Fear not, Abram: I am…