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Genesis 22:12: "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him.

Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

This verse mirrors the poem through the theme of a father searching for his son in a sacred, mountainous landscape. Abraham's devotion and love in offering Isaac reflect the deep concern of the Jewish father, with the "bushes" alluding to the thicket where the ram saved Isaac, connecting love, sacrifice, and faith to these ancient mountains.

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Romans 12:19 says, “Don’t take revenge, but leave it to God. For it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay,’ says the Lord.” This verse is all about trusting God to handle justice instead of taking it into your own hands, and it connects to Yehuda Amichai’s poem “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion.” Both focus on forgiveness and seeing the humanity in others. The verse talks about having patience and trusting God, while the poem shows an Arab shepherd and a Jewish poet searching for what they’ve lost on Mount Zion, which is both a place of conflict and connection. Both are saying that instead of holding onto anger or seeking revenge, it’s better to focus on understanding and the things that bring people together, even in tough situations.

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In Exodus 3:2, it says, “The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it wasn’t burning up.” This part of the story, along with the rest of Exodus 3:1-12, connects to the poem “An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion” because both talk about sacred places and searching for something important. In Exodus, Mount Horeb is where Moses meets God and gets his mission, while in the poem, Mount Zion is where an Arab shepherd and a Jewish father look for what matters most to them. Both stories show how special places can have deeper meanings and bring people closer to something bigger than themselves. Moses’s encounter with God leads to his people coming together, and the poem hints that understanding between different groups is possible. Whether it’s looking for a purpose or a missing goat, both stories are about the human need to find meaning, peace, and connection.

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Genesis 16:1-16: "Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.''And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram."

Genesis 21:1-21: "And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said,...and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Abraham was the man selected by God to lead his people to the new land, Cannan, present-day Israel. Abraham had two sons, one with his slave-girl named Hagar, named Ishmael, and one with Sarah named Isaac. Ishmael became the ancestor of the Arab nations, while Isaac was the ancestor of the Jewish people. Abraham's sons represent the fufillment of God's promise to Abraham.