5.  Where in the Bible is found the sentence spoken by Abraham to Lot, and quoted in this chapter?

CHAPTER IV

A STRUGGLE AGAINST TYRANNY

Although they had escaped for a time from Babylonian tyranny, the descendants of Abraham in Canaan found themselves somewhat within the range of the influence of the other great civilized power of that day, that is, Egypt.  Egyptian officers collected tribute from rich Canaanite cities.  The roads that led to Egypt were thronged with caravans going to and fro.  By and by, a series of dry seasons drove several of the Hebrew tribes down these highways to Egypt in the search of food.  The story of Joseph tells how they settled there.[1] They were hospitably received by the king (or Pharaoh, which was the Egyptian word for “king"), and were allowed to pasture their flocks on the plains called the land of Goshen in the extreme northeast of the country west of what we now call the Isthmus of Suez.  For some decades or more they lived here, following their old occupation—­sheep-raising.

=Egyptian civilization.=—­Egypt was in many ways like Babylonia.  In Egypt too a great civilization had sprung up many millenniums before Christ.  In some ways it was an even greater civilization than that of Babylonia.  Egyptian sculptors and architects erected stone temples whose grandeur has never been surpassed.  Many of them are still standing and are among the world’s treasures.  It would seem that there was somewhat more of love of beauty and somewhat less of greed for money among the Egyptians than among the Babylonians.

THE ACCESSION OF RAMESES II

There came to the throne of Egypt about B.C. 1200 a man of extraordinary vanity and selfish ambition known as Rameses II.  He wished to build more temples in Egypt than any other king had ever built, so that wherever the traveler might turn people would point to this or that great building and say Rameses II built that.  To put up these buildings he enslaved his people, compelling them to labor without pay.  To raise the funds for building materials he made war on his neighbors, especially the Hittites in western Asia north of Canaan.  Again and again Hebrew children would see the dust of marching armies over the roads past their pastures and men would say, “Rameses is going to war again.”  And by and by, weeks or months later, the soldiers would return with tales of bloody battles and sometimes laden with spoils.

=Enslavement of the Hebrews.=—­Now, wars usually breed more wars.  Rameses having attacked the Hittites was afraid they would attack him.  Egypt was indeed very well protected from attack.  There was only one gateway into the country, and that was by way of the narrow Isthmus of Suez.  And there were a wall and a row of fortresses across the isthmus.  But who were those shepherd tribes living just west of the isthmus inside the gateway?  They are Hebrews, Rameses was told.  They are immigrants from Canaan.  “Look out for them,” said Rameses.  “If they came from Canaan, they may favor the Hittites and help them to get past my fortresses into Egypt.  Let them be put at work so that they will have no time for plots.”