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HISTORY O F THE OLD TESTAMEST.
CHAPTEK XXX.
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We beseech yen, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, olITrort the weak.
-Theas. 5,14.
,OS, S waj re:tred at the colurt of Pha~no, nncl instructed
in :ill the le;il*ning of l{gypt. Hut mhcn Ile was
grow11 up "1~1 s:tw the 111iscry of liis brethrct~, the 31ebre1rs,
lie rcsolvcd to hclp thcm. For lic woul(2 rather be amicled
aud dcspiscd with thc pcoplc of Gocl, than live in the p, .L l :ice
of s wickccl king. Hc Icft thc eplcndor of the court, and
openly dcclared llil~iself the fi-ie~~d of the Ismclites.
2. The king, bearing this, sougllt to kill liirii; but Moses
fled to thc lailcl of &I/mdi;ull. On his way he sat down by a
well, and behold, the rjeveii daughters of Jetl~ro camc to clraw
water for their flocks. Bnt, when thc shccp stood near the
troughs, aome ~hepl~crcls ruslicd in and rnclcly clrove away
the flock. Tbercupon Moses arose, defended the maiclens,
and .rv&tercd their al~eep.
3. Thcn the seven rjisters .rvent home, itnd their father
nslred : " Wliy have ye returned soo~~cr than usual ,17 " They
ni~smcrcd : "A mnn of Egypt dl-ovc away tllc eliepherd~, :~nd
gave opr sliccp to ddnlr.') Jothro asked agi~in : '( Where is
hc? C:tll him, that hc Inay eat brc:crl." So hlose~ entered
thc l~ousc a11d swore t.o clmell wiLh Jetllro, ;uld re~~nil~eri for
forty ycars, and married Sephora, one of the daugliters of
Jethro,
4. Moses, despising the splendor of $$qypt in ortlcr to comfort
tllo Jcws, is n Agurc of thc Son nf Got1 ~110 camc clolvll
from hcnvea, lvns born in n stal>lc, and laid in a mitngel, to
redeem us from thc ilarnes of hell.
QUESTIONS.
1. In wIint was Mascs instructed P IVhnt did lic rosolvt! to tlo when
h* was grown up 7 As vlrose frie11~1 clid lie openly (~Bc~:LI.(: I~imselTP
bordering on