Before
CHRIST
1619. Exodus
VI. 16.
'577- I. 8.
1574- VII. 7.
1573- f. 15, 22
1571.
1531.
1530.
1491.
1491.
II.
II.
Josli.
XIV. 7
10.°
Ex. III.
2, 6tc
V.
VII.
Psnlm
LXXVIII
CV.
Exodus
XII. 11.
29, 41.
Numb.
XXXIII.
Exodus
XIV.
XV.
book of Job follows, written (as it is gene
rally believed.) by Moses.
Levi dieth in Egypt, aged 137 years; he
was grandfather to Moses and Aaron.
Here begins the bondage of the children of
Israel, when a king rose up in Egypt, who
knew not Joseph.
Aaron born three years before his brother
Moles, 83 years before the departure of the
children of Israel out os Egypt.
Pharaoh having in vain commanded the
Hebrew mid wives to destroy all the males o
• he Israelites, sets forth an edict, charging
hat they be all cast into the river.
Moses is born, who, being hid in the flags
>y the river's fide, is found by Pharaoh's
.laughter ; and becomes her adopted son.
Moses in the 40th year of his age, having
llain an Egyptian, whom he saw contend
ing with an Hebrew, fleeth into Mtdian,
where he marrieth Zipporah the daughter
osReuel, or Jethro, a priest, and liveth with
him forty years.
Caleb, the son of Jephunnch, born.
Whilst Moses keeps his father in law's
sheep at mount Horeb, G-d appeareth to
him in a binning bulh, and sendeth him to
deliver Israel.
Moses and Aaron having declared to Pha-
aoh the message, on which they are sent un
to him from God, are charged by him as
'-.eads of a mutiny, and sent away with many
iiad *ords; and more grievous labours art
forthwith hid upon the Israelites.
Moses be ng now 80, and Aaron 83 years
of age, urged thereunto by God, return a-
gain to Phar aoh, where the magicians by their
I'jrcery, imitating the miracle of Aaron's rod
urn;d into a serpent, make Pharaoh more
obstinate than he was before. Wherefore
God by the hand of Moses lays ten plagues
jpon the Egyptians.
The fourth j/gt of the World.
UPON the fourteenth day of the first
month, (which was May the fourth,
upon Monday with us j in the evening, the
passiver is instituted.
Upon the fifteenth of the fame month,
at midnight, the firstborn of Egypt being
all slain, Pharaoh and his servants makt
haste to fend away the Israelites; and they,
the selfsame day wherein they were let go
aut of bondage, being the complete term ol
430 years from the first pilgrimage of theii
incestor's, reckoning from Abraham's de
parture out of Charran, take their journey,
and march away, being 600,000 men, be
side children, and come to Rameses, from
whence by several encampings they come to
the Red lea, the Lord conducting them in a
pillar of a cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire
bynight.TheycarryJolcph's boneswith them.
At the Red sea Pharaoh with his host over
takes them ; Moses divides the waters with
his rod, and the children of Israel pass through
on dry ground unto the desert of Etham ;
whom when Pharaoh and his army would
needs follow, they are all overwhelmed by
the waters coming together at the dawning
of the day, whereby the Israelites are wholly
freed from the bondage of the Egyptians ;
whose carcases when they fee floating all the
sea over, and cast upon the shore, they sing a
song of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Before
CHHISI
149 1
Upon the fifteenth of the second month
Exodus
XVI.
XVII. 1,
8,9,&c
XX.
XXI.
XXII,
&c.
XXIV.
9, iS.
XXV,
&c.
XXXI.
18.
XXXII.
20, 28.
XXXIV.
(our June the 4th, being Thursday) the Isra
elites come to the wilderness of Zin, which
lierh between Elyma and Sinai, where for
want of food they murmur against God and
their leaders : about the eventide God fends
rhem quails, and the next morning rains up
on them manna from heaven ; and upon that
kind of bread they Jived afterward by the
space of forty years, even till they came to
the borders of the land of Promise. An omer
of it is preserved for a memorial.
At Rephidim, which was the eleventh
place of their encamping, the people murmur
for want of water : Moles gives them water by
striking the hard rock in Horeb with his rod.
The Amalekiies falling upon the rear of
the Israelites are diseomfi;ed by Joshua, whilst
Moses holds up his hands to God in prayer.
God publisheth his Law contained in the
Ten Commandments with a terrible voice
from mount Sinai.
The- people being in great fear, God gives
them sundry other laws, all which being
written in the book of the Covenant, Moses
propole'h them to the people : which done, '
rising early in the morning, he builds an al
tar at the foot of the mountain, and sets up
1 2 statues, according to the 1 2 tribes of Israel,
and sends 12 young men of the firstborn
(whom the Lord hath consecrated to himself
as ministers of those holy things, before the
Levitical Priesthood was ordained) which offer
sacrifice, first for sin, and then for thanksgiv-
ingvtothe Lord: and when Moses had rcadthe
Book of the Covenant, he takes the blood of
the calves and goats so offered, and with wa
ter, scarlet woo), and hyssop, sprinkles the book
therewith, and all the people, or those 12 sta
tues representing them ; and so performs a so
lemn Covenant between God and his people.
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and
70 Mer> of the elders of Israel, go up into
.he mount, and there behold the glory of
God : the rest returning, Moses with his ser
vant Joshua abides there still, and waits six
days, and upon the seventh day God speaks
unto him, and there lie continues. 40 days
nd 40 nights (reckoning those six days
which he waited for the appearance of the
Loidj eating no meat all that while, nor
drinking water; (Deut. IX. 9.) where he re
ceives God's command touching the frame
of the Tabernacle, the Priests' garments, their
consecration, sacrifices, and otherthings com
prised in this and the fix following Chapters.
At the end of 40 days God gives Moses
the two tables of the Law in stone, made by
God's own hand, and written with his own
singer; bidding him withal quickly to get
him down, for that the people had already
made to themselves a molten calf to worship.
Moses by prayer pacifieth God, and goes-
down from the mount, and seeing the people
keeping a festival in honour of their idol in
the camp, he breaks the tables of the law at
the foot of the mount : for which the Jews,
keep a solemn fast unto this day.
Moses, having burnt and defaced the idol,,
puts 3000 of the idolaters to death by the-
hands of the Levites.
God commands Moses to frame new Ta
bles of stone, and to bring them with him.
into the mount : Moses brings them the
next morning, and whilst he stands in the
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