daubed it with slime and with covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

pitch, and put the child there. in; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

LESSON XXXIII. Moses sent to the Children of Israel.

Exod. iii. 1-15.

NOW Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a 7 Then said his sister to bush: and he looked, and, bePharaoh's daughter, Shall I go hold, the bush burned with fire, and call to thee a nurse of the and the bush was not consumed. Hebrew women, that she may 3 And Moses said, I will now nurse the child for thee? turn aside, and see this great 8 And Pharaoh's daughter sight, why the bush is not burnt. said to her; Go. And the maid 4 And when the LORD saw went and called the child's no-that he turned aside to see, ther. God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

9 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their Ery came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place where. on thou standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

8 And I am come down to 24 And God heard their groan- deliver them out of the hand of ing, and. God remembered his the Egyptians, and to bring,

LESSON XXXIV.

them up out of that land unto my memorial unto all generaa good land and a large, unto a tions. land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Pe rizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth iny people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt ?

Moses goes to Pharaoh. God's
Judgments, &c.

Exod. iv. 29-31; v. 1. 2; vii.
19-21; viii. 5, 6, 16, 17, 20-24,
and ix. 1-3, 6.

29 AND Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:

30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had look. 12 And he said, Certainly Ied upon their affliction, then will be with thee; and this they bowed their heads and shall be a token unto thee, that worshipped. I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain..

13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is

CHAPTER V.

1 And afterwards Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

20 And Moses and Aaron did 21 Else, if thou wilt not le so, as the LORD commanded; my people go, behold, I wil and he lifted up the rod, and send swarms of flies upon thee smote the waters that were in and upon thy servants, and ur the river, in the sight of Pha- on thy people, and into th raoh, and in the sight of his houses; and the houses of th servants; and all the waters Egyptians shall be full that were in the river were swarms of flies, and also the turned to blood. ground whereon they are. 21 And the fish that was in 22 And I will sever in thas the river died; and the river day the land of Goshen, in stank, and the Egyptians could which my people dwell, tha n not drink of the water of the swarms of flies shall be the r river; and there was blood to the end that thon mast throughout all the land of know that I am the LORI T Egypt. the midst of the earth.

16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretel out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

23 And I will put a diviti n between my people and ty people: to-morrow shall is sign be.

24 And the LORD did so: a id there came a grievous swum of flies into the house of 11raoh, and into his servan houses, and into all the land Egypt: the land was corrupte by reason of the swarm of flies

CHAPTER IX.

1 Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may

serve me.

17 And they did so; for 2 For if thou refuse to let Aaron stretched out his hand them go, and wilt hold them. with his rod, and smote the still, dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

LESSON XXXV.

sinned this time: the LORD is

Continuation of God's Judg.righteous, and I and my people

ments, &c.

Exod. ix. 10, 12, 22-35, and x. 13-15, 22, 23.

10 AND they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

are wicked.

enough) that there be no more 28 Intreat the LORD (for it is mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail;

12 And the LORD hardened that thou mayest know how the heart of Pharaoh, and he that the earth is the LORD'S. hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.

31 And the flax and the barley was smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

32 But the wheat and the rye were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there inay be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses went out of 23 And Moses stretched forth the city from Pharaoh, and his rod toward heaven: and the spread abroad his hands unto LORD sent thunder and hail, the LORD: and the thunders and the fire ran along upon the and hail ceased, and the rain. ground; and the Lord rained was not poured upon the earth. hail upon the land of Egypt.

24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

25 And the bail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

CHAPTER X.

13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and 27 And Pharaoh sent, and when it was morning, the east called for Moses and Aaron, wind brought the locusts.

and said unto them, I have 14 And the locusts went up

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over all the land of Egypt, and] rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

CHAPTER XII. 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they 3 Speak ye unto all the condid eat every herb of the land, gregation of Israel, saying, In and all the fruit of the trees the tenth day of this month which the hail had left: and they shall take to them every there remained not any green man a lamb, according to the thing in the trees, or in the house of their fathers, a lamb herbs of the field, through all for an house. the land of Egypt.

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4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and 22 And Moses stretched forth his neighbour next unto his his hand toward heaven; and house take it according to the there was a thick darkness in number of the souls; every all the land of Egypt three days. man according to his eating 23 They saw not one an- shall make your count for the other, neither rose any from lamb. his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

6 And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pha- 10 And ye shall let nothing raoh and the LORD hardened of it remain until the morning; Pharaoh's heart, so that he and that which remaineth of would not let the children of it until the morning ye shall Israel go out of his land.

burn with fire.