IT CAME TO PASS THAT GOD CREATED TWO BROTHERS AND NAME THEM "MUTIYA" AND "ALAS", ON THE FIRST DAY GOD TAUGHT THEM ALL HIS LAWS, BOTH BROTHERS NOW KNEW TO OBEY GOD AND HIS LAWS, BOTH BROTHERS KNEW TO PREPARE FOR THE DAY OF THE HARVEST, THEY KNEW THAT ON THAT DAY GOD EXPECTED AN OFFERING FROM EACH BROTHER, THE OFFERING HAD TO BE AS GOD HAD INSTRUCTED, AFTER LEARNING ALL THAT GOD HAD TAUGHT THEM, THEY EACH CHOSE A RESPONSIBILITY, MUTIYA DECIDED TO BECOME A SHEPHERD AND ALAS CHOSE TO BECOME A FARMER, ON THE DAY OF THE FIRST HARVEST, GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO ALAS AND MUTIYA AND AS INSTRUCTED BY GOD, THEY EACH GAVE GOD THEIR OFFERING, MUTIYA GAVE GOD HIS FIRST BORN SHEEP, BUT ALAS DID NOT, HE DECIDED TO GIVE GOD THE VERY BEST OF HIS CROP, GOD WAS PLEASED WITH MUTIYA'S OFFERING, BUT UPSET WITH THE OFFERING GIVEN TO HIM BY ALAS, ALAS ASKED GOD: "WHY ARE YOU NOT PLEASED WITH MY OFFERING, I HAVE CHOSEN THE BEST PICKS FROM MY CROP" GOD ANSWERED ALAS BY SAYING: "I HAVE INSTRUCTED BOTH YOU AND YOUR BROTHER AS TO WHAT KIND OF OFFERING IS EXPECTED OF YOU, BUT ONLY ONE OF YOU HAS DONE AS I HAVE INSTRUCTED." THIS REPLY ANGERED ALAS AND IN HIS HEART HE ALLOWED ANGER AND JEALOUSY TO DWELL TOWARDS HIS BROTHER MUTIYA, GOD TOLD BOTH BROTHERS THAT HE WILL REVEAL HIMSELF TO THEM FOR THEIR OFFERING ON THE DAY OF THE NEXT HARVEST, THE NEXT DAY MUTIYA CARED FOR HIS FLOCK WHILE ALAS BEGAN TO PREPARE THE GROUND FOR THE NEXT HARVEST, MUTIYA NOTICED THAT ONE OF HIS SHEEP WAS PREGNANT AND FILLED WITH JOY, MUTIYA WENT TO HIS BROTHER AND SAID: "I WILL GIVE GOD MY NEW SHEEP, AS MY OFFERING ON THE DAY OF THE SECOND HARVEST", THAT NIGHT CONSUMED WITH ANGER AND JEALOUSY ALAS LIED TO HIS BROTHER MUTIYA AND TOLD HIM THAT ONE OF HIS SHEEP HAD WONDERED ONTO HIS FIELD, IMMEDIATELY MUTIYA WENT TO FIND THE LOST SHEEP, MUTIYA NOW ON HIS BROTHERS FIELD, SEARCHED FOR HIS LOST SHEEP, BUT DID NOT FIND ANY OF HIS SHEEP THERE, AS HE WAS LEAVING HIS BROTHERS FIELD, MUTIYA SAW ALAS AND ASKED ALAS WHERE HE HAD SEEN THE LOST SHEEP, ALAS CONSUMED WITH ANGER, HATRED AND JEALOUSY MURDERED MUTIYA, ON THE DAY OF THE SECOND HARVEST ALAS BROUGHT WITH HIM MUTIYA'S NEW SHEEP AS HIS OWN OFFERING TO GOD, WHEN GOD REVEALED HIMSELF BEFORE ALAS, GOD SAID TO ALAS: "WHERE IS MUTIYA YOUR BROTHER? WHERE IS MUTIYA'S OFFERING?" ALAS REPLIED TO GOD BY SAYING "I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR MY BROTHER OR FOR HIS OFFERING" ANGERED BY ALAS, GOD SAID TO HIM: "YOU HAVE DISOBEYED ME. CAN YOU HEAR AS I CAN? LISTEN! YOUR BROTHER’S BLOOD CRIES OUT TO ME FROM THE GROUND. KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOW CURSED AND NO LONGER ALLOWED ON MY FIELD. KNOW THAT YOU HAVE MADE THIS FIELD UNHOLY WITH YOUR ACTIONS AND DISOBEDIENCE. KNOW THAT FROM THIS DAY ON WHEN YOU WORK A GROUND, IT WILL NO LONGER YIELD ITS CROPS FOR YOU. YOU HAVE BECOME A RESTLESS WANDERER." ALAS SAID TO GOD, “MY PUNISHMENT IS MORE THAN I CAN BEAR. TODAY YOU ARE DRIVING ME FROM THE YOUR FIELD, AND NO LONGER WILL I SEE YOU, I WILL BE A RESTLESS WANDERER ON THE EARTH, AND WHOEVER FINDS ME WILL KILL ME.” BUT GOD SAID TO HIM, “I WILL INSTRUCT THEM OF MY LAWS AND KNOWING MY LAW THEY WILL KNOW NOT TO KILL YOU, FOR IF ANYONE KILLS YOU HE/SHE/THEY WILL SUFFER VENGEANCE MANY TIMES OVER.” THEN GOD PUT A MARK ON ALAS SO THAT NO ONE WHO FOUND HIM WOULD KILL HIM. ALAS LEFT THE HOLY FIELD AND SETTLED IN A DESERT ON EARTH.
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