down hail, which smote every herb in the fields, and fire ran along the ground, and all that were in the fields perished, and the grass was eaten up with wild locusts. Pharaoh again said, I have sinned; and Moses spread forth his hand unto the Lord, and the hail ceased. But Pharaoh's heart was still hardened, and he would not let them go.

There was a thick darkness over the land of Egypt, that the Egyptians did not see for three days, but the houses of the Israelites were exempt from it. Pharaoh now would let Israel go, provided they would leave their flocks behind them, which Moses would not comply with.

The Lord now spoke unto Moses and Aaron, and said, This month shall be the beginning of a new year with you. Take to every house a lamb without blemish, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day, and shall kill it in the evening; and you (the Israelites) shall strike the door-post of the house wherein it was killed with the blood, using a bunch of hyssop, and ye shall roast it, and eat it that night with unleavened bread, and what remaineth in the morning ye shall burn with fire; and this is the passover which ye shall keep after as a memorial for ever. And the Angel of the Lord slew that night the first-born, both of man and beast, which belonged to the Egyptians.

Pharaoh now agreed to let the Israelites leave, and Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, and the Israelites borrowed of the Egyptians their ornaments both of silver and gold, and they went out and encamped at Pi-hahiroth, over against Baalzephon, on the northern part of the Red Sea.

And a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire went before their faces, and yet stood behind them, being a darkness to the Egyptians, although a light to the Israelites.

THE FIRST-BORN SLAIN

THROUGHOUT

THE LAND OF

Now Pharaoh repented that he had let Israel go, so he pursued them with all his host, even unto the shores of the Red Sea; when Moses stretched forth his rod, and the waters divided right and left, allowing Moses, Aaron, and the Israelites to pass over or through on dry land. Pharaoh and all his army followed closely, and immediately that Moses stretched forth his hand again, the waters rushed back, and overwhelmed Pharaoh and all his host.

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The first-born slain throughout the Land of Egypt.

IN THE RED SEA.

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Pharaoh and

his host drown-
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Sea.

AOH AND HIS HOST DROWNED

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel the song unto the Lord, He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the

sea.

The Israelites travelled three days without coming to any well of water; and on arriving at Marah, the waters were bitter, and the people could not drink thereof, but the Lord pointed out a tree to Moses which rendered the twelve wells at Elim, a short distance from Marah, sweet, by Moses using a branch of it.

The people next arrived at the wilderness of Sin, between Elim and Sinai, which was the fifteenth day of the second month after the departure from Egypt, and they now murmured for want of bread, and said, Would to God that we had died in Egypt, where we

sat at the flesh pots, and ate bread in abundance. Moses therefore prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord rained manna, and they gathered it every morning until the end of the sixth day, when Moses said, Six days shalt thou gather it, but the seventh day is the sabbath, on which day thou shalt not gather it, for it is a day of rest unto the Lord. And the people did eat manna for forty years, until they came unto the land which was peopled, being on the borders of Canaan, and pitched their tents in Rephidim, where there was no water. They murmured against Moses, and Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, The people are ready to stone me. And Moses was commanded to take the rod with which he smote the river, and smite the rock in Horeb, and there gushed out plenty of water.

SMITING THE ROCK FOR WATER.

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Moses smiting the Rock for

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Now the Amalekites destroyed all the Israelites that could not keep up with the main body. So Moses sent Joshua against them, during which time Moses and Aaron, and Hur, the husband of Miriam, the sister of Moses, went to the top of the mountain; and Moses prayed unto the Lord, and Joshua succeeded, and put the Amalekites to the sword.

Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came unto him, and hearing of the want of system in governing the people, he recommended Moses to choose rulers over fifties, hundreds, and thousands; which plan Moses adopted.

The people arrived at Sinai, and Moses went up unto God; and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, and said, If you obey my voice, and keep my commandments, then ye shall be my peculiar people.

Moses informed the people the words which the Lord commanded him, and all the people answered, We will do it. And Moses sanctified the people, and commanded them to be washed and clean, and to be ready against the third day, but to keep a distance from the mount, for whosoever touched the mount, he should surely die. On the third day in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet so loud, that the people all trembled; and Moses brought the people from the camp to the foot of the mount. And God answered Moses by a voice, and called Moses up to the top of the mount, and to bring Aaron with him; and Moses and Aaron went up. And God spake