of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. to me. 2 But if thou refuse, and withhold them still: 3 Behold, my hand shall be upon thy fields: and a very grievous murrain upon thy horses, and asses, and camels, and oxen, and sheep. 24 And the hail, and fire mixt with it, drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt, since that nation was founded. 4 And the Lord will make a wonderful differ-" 25 And the hail destroyed through all the land ence between the possessions of Israel and the of Egypt all things that were, in the fields, both possessions of the Egyptians, that nothing at all man and beast; and the hail smote every herb small die of those things that belong to the chil- of the field, and it broke every tree of the coundren of Israel. 5 And the Lord appointed a time, saying: Tomorrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. 6 The Lord therefore did this thing the next day and all the beasts of the Egyptians died: but of the beasts of the children of Israel there died not one. 7 And Pharao sent to see: and there was not any thing dead of that which Israel possessed. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he did not let the people go. 8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Take to you handfuls of ashes out of the chimney; and let Moses sprinkle it in the air in the presence of Pharao. 9 And be there dust upon all the land of|| Egypt: for there shall be boils and swelling blains both in men and beasts, in the whole land of Egypt. 10 And they took ashes out of the chimney, and stood before Pharaoh: and Moses sprinkled it in the air: and there came boils with swelling blains in men and beasts. 11 Neither could the magicians stand before Moses for the boils that were upon them, and in all the land of Egypt. 12 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses. 13 And the Lord said to Moses: Arise in the morning, and stand before Pharao, and thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord the God of the Hebrews: Let my people go to sacrifice to me. 14 For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people: that thou mayest know there is none Eike me in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out my hand to strike thee and thy people with pestilence. And thou shalt perish from the earth. 16 And therefore have I raised thee, that I may show my power in thee, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth. 17 Dost thou yet hold back my people, and wilt thou not let them go? Is Behold, I will cause it to rain to-morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time. 19 Send therefore now presently, and gather together thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the feld: for men and beasts, and all things that shall be found abroad, and not gathered together out of the fields, which the hail shall fall upon, shall die. 20 He that feared the word of the Lord among Pharao's servants, made his servants and his cattle flee into houses: 21 But he that regarded not the word of the Lord, left his servants and his cattle in the fields. 22 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, that there may be hail in the whole land of Egypt, upon men, and upon beasts, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and *All the beasts. That is, many of all kinds. Hardened, &c. See the annotations above, Chap. iv. 21. chap. vii. 3. and chap. viii. 15. try. 26 Only in the land of Gessen, where the chil'dren of Israel were, the hail fell not. 27 And Pharao sent and called Moses and Aaron, saying to them: I have sinned this time also: The Lord is just: I and my people are wicked. 28 Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer. 29 Moses said: As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will stretch forth my hands to the Lord; and the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall be no more: that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord's: 30 But I know that neither thou, nor thy servants do yet fear the Lord God. 31 The flax therefore, and the barley were hurt, because the barley was green, and the flax was now bolled: 32 But the wheat and other winter corn were not hurt, because they were lateward. 33 And when Moses was gone from Pharao out of the city, he stretched forth his hands to the Lord: and the thunders and the hail ceased; neither did there drop any more rain upon the earth. 34 And Pharao seeing that the rain, and the hail, and the thunders were ceased, increased his sin: 35 And his heart was hardened, and the heart of his servants, and it was made exceeding hard: neither did he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses. CHAP. X. The eighth plague of the locusts. The ninth, of darkness. Pharao is still hardened. ND the Lord said to Moses: Go in to Pharao; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may work these my signs in him, 2 And thou mayst tell in the ears of thy sons, and of thy grandsons, how often I have plagued the Egyptians, and wrought my signs amongst them: and you may know that I am the Lord: 3 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me. 4 But if thou resist, and wilt not let them go, behold, I will bring in to-morrow the locusts into thy coasts: 5 To cover the face of the earth, that nothing thereof may appear; but that which the hail hath left may be eaten: for they shall feed upon all the trees that spring in the fields. 6 And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of thy servants, and of all the Egyptians: such a number as thy fathers have not seen, nor thy grandfathers, from the time they were first upon the earth, until this present day. And he turned himself away, and went forth from Pharao. 7 And Pharao's servants said to him: How long shall we endure this scandal? let the men go to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Dost thou not see that Egypt is undone? 8 And they called back Moses and Aaron to Pharao: and he said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord your God: Who are they that shall go? 9 Moses said: We will go with our young and old, with our sons and daughters, with our sheep and herds: for it is the solemnity of the Lord our and after that he shall let you go, and thrust you God. 10 And Pharao answered: So be the Lord with you, as I shall let you and your children go: who can doubt but that you intend some great evil? out. 2 Therefore thou shalt tell all the people, that every man ask of his friend, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver, and of gold. 3 And the Lord will give favour to his people 11 It shall not be so: but go ye men only, and in the sight of the Egyptians. And Moses was sacrifice to the Lord: for this yourselves also de-a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the sired. And immediately they were cast out from Pharao's presence. 12 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt unto the locust, that it come upon it, and devour every herb that is left after the hail. 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought a burning wind all that day and night: and when it was morning, the burning wind raised the locusts. 14 And they came up over the whole land of Egypt: and rested in all the coasts of the Egyp-| tians innumerable, the like as had not been before that time, nor shall be hereafter. 15 And they covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. And the grass of the earth was devoured, and what fruits soever were on the trees, which the hail had left: and there remained not any thing that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth in all Egypt. 16 Wherefore Pharao in haste called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 But now forgive me my sin this time also; and pray to the Lord your God, that he take away from me this death. 18 And Moses going forth from the presence of Pharao, prayed to the Lord: 19 And he made a very strong wind to blow from the west; and it took the locusts and cast them into the Red Sea: there remained not so inuch as one in all the coasts of Egypt. 20 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the children of Israel go. 21 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt.* 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. 23 No man saw his brother, nor moved himself out of the place where he was: but wheresoever the children of Israel dwelt, there was light. 24 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, and said to them: Go, sacrifice to the Lord: let your sheep only, and herds remain, let your children go with you. 25 Moses said: Thou shalt give us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings, to the Lord our God. 26 All the flocks shall go with us: there shall not a hoof remain of them: for they are necessary for the service of the Lord our God; especially as we know not what must be offered, till we come to the very place. 27 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharao said to Moses: Get thee from me, and beware thou see not my face any more: in what day soever thou shalt come in my sight, thou shalt die. 29 Moses answered: So shall it be as thou hast spoken: I will not see thy face any more. CHAP. XI. Pharao and his people are threatened with the death of their first-born. ND the said sight of Pharao's servants, and of all the people. 4 And he said: Thus saith the Lord: At midnight I will enter into Egypt: And every first-born in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the first-born of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the first-born of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the first-born of beasts. 6 And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as neither hath been before, nor shall be hereafter. 7 But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast: that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these thy servants shall come down to me, and shall worship me, saying: Go forth thou, and all the people that is under thee: after that we will go out. 9 And he went out from Pharao exceeding angry. But the Lord said to Moses: Pharao will not hear you, that many signs may be done in the land of Egypt. 10 And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before Pharao. And the Lord hardened† Pharao's heart; neither did he let the children of Israel go out of his land. CHAP. XII. The manner of preparing, and eating the paschal lamb: The first-born of Egypt are all slain: The Israelites depart. AND the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year. 3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. 4 But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. 5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid.‡ 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side-posts, and on the upper door-posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce. 9 You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. 10 Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire. 11 And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, Amore wording to Moves: Yet one plague + The Lord hardened, &c. See the annotations above, chap. iv. 21. and chap. vii. 3. Darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick Akid. The Phase might be performed, either that it may be felt. By means of the gross ex-with a lamb or with a kid: and all the same rites halations, which were to cause and accompany and ceremonies were to be used with the one as the darkness. with the other. bolding staves in your hands; and you shall eat|| 29 And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord in haste: for it is the Phase (that is, the Passage) of the Lord. 12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the ges of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be: and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be for a memorial to you: and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observance. 15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shail perish out of Israel. slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the first born of cattle. 30 And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead. 31 And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise, and go forth from among my people, you, and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord, as you say. 32 Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded; and departing, bless me. 33 And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die. 34 The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders. 16 The first day shall be holy and solemn; and 35 And the children of Israel did as Moses had the seventh day shall be kept with the like solem-commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians nity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating. 17 And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt; and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance. 18 The first month, the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the same month in the evening. 19 Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land. 20 You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread. 21 And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase. 22 And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle † the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses, and to hurt you. 24 Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever. 25 And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies. 26 And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service? 27 You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored. And the children of Israel going forth did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment. 36 And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians. 37 And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. 38 And a mixed multitude without number went up also with them, sheep, and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many. 39 And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth-cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay: neither did they think of preparing any meat. 40 And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41 Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt. 42 This is the observable night of the Lord when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations. 43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase: No foreigner shall eat of it. 44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat. 45 The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof. 47 All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it. 48 And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised: and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof. 49 The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you. 50 And all the children of Israel did as the Lord • Unleavened bread. By this it appears, that our Saviour made use of unleavened bread, in the had commanded Moses and Aaron. institution of the blessed sacrament, which was 51 And the same day the Lord brought forth on the evening of the paschal solemnity, at which the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by. time there was no leavened bread to be found in their companies. Israel. +Sprinkle, &c. This sprinkling the doors of the Israelites with the blood of the paschal lamb, in order to their being delivered from the sword of the destroying angel, was a lively figure of our redemption by the blood of Christ. CHAP. XIII. The The paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the first-born are to be consecrated to God. people are conducted through the desert by a pillar of fire in the night, and a cloud in the day. AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire; that he might be the guide of their openeth the womb among the children of Israel, journey at both times. as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine. 22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by 3 And Moses said to the people: Remember day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the this day in which you came forth out of Egypt, people. and out of the house of bondage; for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought you forth out of this place; that you eat no leavened bread. 4 This day you go forth in the month of new corn. CHAP. XIV. Pharao pursueth the children of Israel. They 5 And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebu- 2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them site, which he swore to thy fathers that he would turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth, which give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, is between Magdal and the sea over-against Beelthou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in sephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea. this month. 3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in. 6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be the solemnity of the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts. 8 And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is what the Lord did to me when I came forth out of Egypt. a 9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 10 Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to days. 11 And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, as he swore to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee: 4 And I shall harden his heart, and he will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. 5 And it was told the king of the Egyptians, that the people was fled: and the heart of Pharao and of his servants was changed with regard to the people, and they said: What meant we to do, that we let Israel go from serving us? 6 So he made ready his chariot, and took all his people with him. 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots that were in Egypt, and the captains of the whole army. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt; and he pursued the children of Israel: but they were gone forth in a mighty hand. 12 Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the 9 And when the Egyptians followed the steps womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought of them who were gone before, they found them forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of encamped at the sea-side: all Pharao's horse and the male sex, thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.chariots, and the whole army were in Phihahiroth 13 The first-born of an ass thou shalt change before Beelsephon. for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou 10 And when Pharao drew near, the children shalt kill it. And every first-born of men thou of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians shalt redeem with a price. behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and 14 And when thy son shall ask thee to-morrow, cried to the Lord: saying: What is this? Thou shalt answer him: 11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth were no graves in Egypt; therefore thou hast out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bon-brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst dage. thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt? 15 For when Pharao was hardened, and would not let us go, the Lord slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb of the male sex, and all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 12 Is not this the word that we spoke to thee in Egypt, saying: Depart from us, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it was much better to serve them, than to die in the wilderness. 13 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, 16 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as which he will do this day: for the Egyptians a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remem-whom you see now, you shall see no more for brance: because the Lord hath brought us forth ever. out of Egypt by a strong hand. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. 15 And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward. 16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it; that the children of Israel may go through the midst of the sea 17 And when Pharao had sent out the people. the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines which is near: thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt. 18 But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. on dry ground. 19 And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: 17 And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians because he had adjured the children of Israel, to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones and in all his host, and in his chariots, and in his from hence with you. horsemen. 20 And marching from Socoth they encamped 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness. Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in 21 And the Lord went before them to show the his chariots, and in his horsemen. *Sanctify unto me every first-born. Sanctification in this place means that the first-born males of the Hebrews should be deputed to the ministry in the divine worship; and the first-born of beasts be given for a sacrifice. 19 And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removing, went behind them: and together with him the pillar of the cloud, leaving the fore-part, 20 Stood behind, between the Egyptians' camp and the camp of Israel: and it was a dark cloud, and enlightening the night, so that they could not come at one another all the night. 21 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided. And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried up: for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursuing, went in after them, and all Pharao's horses, his chariots and horsemen, through the midst of the sea. 24 And now the morning watch was come: and behold, the Lord looking upon the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew their bost, 25 Aad overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against us. 26 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and horsemen. 27 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither did there so much as one of them remain. 29 But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon dry land: and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and on the left: 30 And the Lord delivered Israel in that day cut of the hands of the Egyptians. 31 And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore, and the mighty hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the Lord; and they believed the Lord, and Moses his enemy. I 9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake; will divide the spoils; my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword; my hand shall slay them. 10 Thy wind blew, and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like to thee, among the strong, O Lord? who is like to thee, glorious in holiness, terrible and praiseworthy, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them. 13 In thy mercy thou hast been a leader to the people which thou hast redeemed: and in thy strength thou hast carried them to thy holy habitation. 14 Nations rose up, and were angry: sorrows took hold on the inhabitants of Philisthiim. 15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled: trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff. 16 Let fear and dread fall upon them, in the greatness of thy arm: let them become unmoveable as a stone, until thy people, O Lord, pass by: until this thy people pass by, which thou hast possessed. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established. 18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. 19 For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof. 20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances: 21 And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified: the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea. 22 And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; and they went forth into the wilderness of Sur: and they marched three days through the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And they came into Mara, and they could not drink the waters of Mara, because they were bitter: whereupon he gave a name also agreeable to the place, calling it Mara, that is, bitterness. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink? 25 But he cried to the Lord: and he showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him, 26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer. 27 And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters. CHAP. XVI. them quails and manna. 7 And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy The people murmur for want of meat: God giveth wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stoods AND they set forward from Elim: and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the depths were gathered together in the midst of the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sithe sea. nai, the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt. A dark cloud, and enlightening the night. It 2 And all the congregation of the children of was a dark cloud to the Egyptians; but enlight- Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the ened the night to the Israelites, by giving them a wilderness. great light. 3 And the children of Israel said to them: 49 |