Exodus - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 62

EXODUS. Mitzcraim, after which he will release her neighbour, articles of silver and of Mitzer, in the eyes of the ministers from all the children of Israel there shall not be hurt a dog’s tongue, that you. They all will release you, driving you from hare. Therefore privately instruct the People that they must demand every man from his neighbour, and every woman from The EVER-LIVING also gave the People favour in the eyes of the Mitzerites; for the man Moses was very powerful in the land of Pharoh, and in the eyes of the People. After that Moses proclaimed;

1`hus says the Evmz—x.1vmo, At midnight I will pass through the land—0f the Mitzeraim, and kill all the iirst·bom in the land of Mitzer, from the iirst—born of Pharoh, who sits upon the throne, to the l·irst·born of the slave who sits behind the mill; as well as the first-born of the cattle; and a great cry will go up from all the land of Mitzer, when these are not; and those are perished. But 12-1 2

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G0! Serve the EvER—L1v1NG. Only your sheep and cattle must stay ; your children, also, may go with you} You must also

give to our hands sacrifices and offerings that we can make to our Evmz-Livmo Gon, and therefore our herds must go with us; not a hoof must be left; for we must take from them tc serve our EvER—L1v1NG GOD. And we cannot be knowing what we must serve the EvER—t.iv1NG with until we arrive there. The Lord, however, hardened the

heart of Pharoh, and he was not willing to release the People. There- Get off from mel and take care to yourself never again to see my face! for on the day you look again on my face you shall die As you

have spoken right, I never will look on your face again l' Then the Evna—r,1v1Ne said to

I will bring yet another blow upon Pharoh, and upon the and Israel. Then all your ministers shall descend, and bow down to me saying, ‘Go away, you, with all the People who are following you,' and after that I will depart.' Thus he went from before Pharoh

in burning anger. Then the EvER· Since Pharoh will not listen to you, I will increase my evidences in the land of the Mit- Therefore Moses and Aaron effected all these evidences before Pharoh; yet the EvER—LIvING har- dened the heart of Pharoh, and he would not release the children of Israel from his country. Consequently the EVER-LIVING

spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of the Mitzeraim, commanding; I`his month shall be to you the

Chief Month; it shall be the first month of the year to you. ittsiiintimt nf the Qaszuhcr. ‘ Speak to all the families of Israel

commanding that in the tenth month they shall take for themselves each one a lamb for a father’s house, a lamb for a family. But if the family is too small for a lamb, then let him and the neighbour to his house, ac· cording to the number of persons who are to eat, share in the lamb? It must be a perfect he lamb of a year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats; and you must keep it by you until the four- teenth day of this month, then kill it. All the Assembly of the `Families of Israel must kill it between the dusks. Then they shall take of the blood and sprinkle upon the two door-posts, and upon the lintel ofthe houses where they eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with nre. They shall eat it with unfermented bread and bitterherbs. They shall not eat any of it parboiled, or boiled in a boiler, but only roasted with fire, its head, and limbs, and ribs; and they shall not reserveany of it till the morning, but what is left of it at the morning they shall consume with {ire. And they shall eat it in this way ;—·~girt with their belts, their shoes on their feet, and their sticks in their hands; and they shall eat it rapidly. It is a Passing-over to the EVER- LIVING, for I will pass through the you may know that the EvsR—L1v1NG distinguishes between the Mitzerites l 1 The dawn and twilight.··—F. F.

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