Bible Stories and Religious Classics eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 580 pages of information about Bible Stories and Religious Classics.

Bible Stories and Religious Classics eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 580 pages of information about Bible Stories and Religious Classics.

Yet said our Lord to Moses:  I am the Lord God that appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in my might, and my name is Adonai, I showed to them not that.  I promised and made covenant with them that I should give to them the land of Canaan in which they dwelled.  I now have heard the wailing and the tribulations that the Egyptians oppress them with, for which I shall deliver and bring them from the servitude of the Egyptians.  Moses told all these things to the children of Israel, and they believed him not for the anguish of their spirits that they were in, and hard labor.  Then said our Lord to Moses:  Go and enter in to Pharaoh and bid him deliver my people of Israel out of his land.  Moses answered:  How should Pharaoh hear me when the children of Israel believe me not?  Then our Lord said to Moses and Aaron that they both should go to Pharaoh and give him in commandment to let the children of Israel to depart.  And he said to Moses:  Lo!  I have ordained thee to be God of Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.  Thou shalt say to him all that I say to thee, and he shall say to Pharaoh that he suffer the children of Israel to depart from his land.  But I shall enhard his heart, and shall multiply my signs and tokens in the land of Egypt, and he shall not hear ne believe you.  And I shall lead the children of Israel my people.  And shall show mine hand, and such wonders on Egypt, that Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord.  Moses and Aaron did as our Lord commanded them.  Moses was eighty years old when he came and stood tofore Pharaoh, and Aaron eighty-three years when they spake to Pharaoh.  Then when they were tofore Pharaoh, Aaron cast the rod down, tofore Pharaoh, and anon the rod turned into a serpent.  Then Pharaoh called his magicians and jugglers and bade them do the same.  And they made their witchcraft and invocations and cast down their rods, which turned in likewise into serpents, but the rod of Aaron devoured their rods.  Yet was the heart of Pharaoh hard and so indurate that he would not do as God bade.  Then said our Lord to Moses:  The heart of Pharaoh is grieved and will not deliver my people.  Go to him to-morn in the morning and he shall come out, and thou shalt stand when he cometh on the bank of the river, and take in thine hand the rod that was turned into the serpent, and say to him:  The Lord God of the Hebrews sendeth me to thee saying:  Deliver my people that they may offer and make sacrifice to me in desert, yet thou hast no will to hear me.  Therefore our Lord said:  In this shalt thou know that I am the Lord:  Lo!  I shall smite with the rod that is in my hand the water of the flood, and it shall turn into blood; the fishes that be in the water shall die, and the Egyptians shall be put to affliction drinking of it.  Then said our Lord to Moses:  Say thou to Aaron:  Take this rod and stretch thine hand upon all the waters of Egypt, upon the floods, rivers, ponds, and upon all the lakes where any water is, in that they turn to blood, that it may be a vengeance in all the land of Egypt, as well in treen vessels as in vessels of earth and stone.

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