For

people? why is it that thou hast sent me? since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast thou! delivered thy people at all. And the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let my people go, yea, with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. So will I bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and rid you out of their bondage.

And it came to pass at midnight, that Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste. And the children of Israel rose up; and they came forth out of Egypt by their families.

EXODUS XIII, XL
(Numbers ix)

Now it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for he said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: but God led the people round about, by the way of the wilderness. And the Lord

went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light. So it was alway, that there was the cloud by day, and the appear

ance of fire by night. And whenever the cloud went forward, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys: and in the place where the cloud abode, there they pitched their tents. And sometimes the cloud tarried from evening until morning; and when the cloud moved forward in the morning, they set forth on their journeys: or if it tarried by night and by day, when the cloud went forward, they journeyed: but if the cloud went not forward, then they journeyed not till the day that it went forward. Yea, whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried, the children of Israel remained in their tents; but when the cloud went forward, they went onward, throughout all their journeys. At the commandment of the Lord they rested in their tents, and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.

EXODUS XIV, XV

Now when it was told the king of Egypt that the children of Israel had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? And he made ready his chariots, and pursued after them, and overtook them encamping by the

sea.

And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid. And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast

thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness!

And Moses spake all these words unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto him, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. And thou, lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand. over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

And it came to pass, that the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was s cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyp

tians.

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, saying:

The Lord is my strength and song,
And he is become my salvation:

He is my God, and I will praise him;
My father's God, and I will exalt him.
Thy right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power:
Yea, thy right hand hath gotten us the vic-
tory.

EXODUS XVI

Deuteronomy viii. Psalm cvii

Then came all the congregation of the children of Israel unto the wilderness of Zin. And they murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, Would to God we had died in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full! for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, In the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

And it came to pass, that in the morning the dew lay round about the camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, Manna: which by interpretation is, What is this? for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. This is

the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating. And the house of Israel called the name thereof, Manna. And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; even as it is written:

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary

way;

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trou

ble,

And he delivered them out of their distresses. The people asked meat,

And he satisfied them with food from heaven; That he might humble them,

And make them to know,

That man doth not live by bread only,

But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord.