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   ocr: pagan prophets have tirst turn. AS they danced around an altar peseeching their gods, he sat back and taunted them to frenzy Maybe your god is traveling, or sleeping, * he yelled, and the priests slashed themselves with swords until the blood ran. Elijah may have been outnumbered, but he proved a worthy adversary. When his time came, he worked the crowd like a master magician. He stacked the odds against a miracle by dousing the site with twelve large jars of water-the most precious commodity in srael after a three-year drought. Just when it seemed Elijah was perpetrating a huge national joke, ...