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Almighty God, whose servant Abraham faithfully obeyed your call, and rejoiced to see the day of your Son: Multiply the number of your children by the grace of the Lamb who was slain; that your Church may also rejoice to see your promise to our father Abraham fulfilled; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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This prayer is said after the Easter Vigil reads the story of Abraham and Isaac. It asks God to keep multiplying his family, the Church, the way he once multiplied Abraham's children, now through Jesus, "the Lamb who was slain." The exact wording is new to the 2019 Anglican prayer book, but it carries forward a much older prayer, translated from the Roman Church's Easter Vigil, that has stood at this same spot in the service for generations.