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.

12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and 7 But with all the children of Israel there beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I shall not a dog make the least noise, from will execute judgments: I am the Lord. man even to beast: that you may know how 13 And the blood shall be unto you for a sign wonderful a difference the Lord maketh be-in the houses where you shall be: and I shall tween the Egyptians and Israel.

AND the Lord said to Moses and Aaron unleavened bread; for in this same day I will

Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your] 32 Your sheep and herds take along with generations by a perpetual observance. you, as you demanded, and departing, bless

18 The first month, the fourteenth day me. of the month in the evening, you shall 33 And the Egyptians pressed the people eat unleavened bread, until the one and to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: twentieth day of the same month in the We shall all die. evening.

23 For the Lord will pass through striking 39 And they baked the meal, which a little the Egyptians: and when he shall see the before they had brought out of Egypt, in blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he dough: and they made earth cakes unleavenwill pass over the door of the house, and noted: for it could not be leavened, the Egyp suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.

49 The same law shall be to him that is deem it, thou shalt kill it. And every firstborn in the land, and to the proselyte that born of men thou shalt redeem with a price. Bojourneth with you. 14 And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow, saying: What is this? Thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did the Lord bring us forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

50 And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.

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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

The paschal solemnity is to be observed; and the first-born of man to the first-born of beasts: thereborn are to be consecrated to God. The people are fore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth conducted through the desert by a pillar of fire in the womb of the male sex, and all the firstthe night, and a cloud in the day. born of my sons I redeem.

AND the Lord spoke to Moses, say

16 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, ing: and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a 2* Sanctify unto me every first-born that remembrance: because the Lord hath brought openeth the womb among the children of us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand. Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.

17 And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of 3 And Moses said to the people: Remem-the land of the Philistines which is near: ber this day in which you came forth out of Egypt, 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.

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.

9 And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes: and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth,

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.

19 And Moses took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: § God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

20 And marching from Socoth they encamped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

21 || And the Lord went before them to shew the 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 journey at both times.

22 There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.

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Pharao pursueth the children of Israel. They murmur against Moses, but are encouraged by him, and puss through the Red Sea. Pharao and his army following them are drowned.

for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought AND the Lord spoke to Moses, saythee 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:

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2 Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.

3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.

12 Thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb for the Lord, and all that is first brought forth of thy cattle: whatsoever thou 4 And I shall harden his heart, and he shalt have of the male sex, thou shalt conse-will pursue you: and I shall be glorified in crate to the Lord. Pharao, and in all his army: and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so.

13 The first-born of an ass thou shalt change for a sheep: and if thou do not re

Infra, 34. 19. Levit. 27. 26. Num. 8. 16. 44, 30.- Deut. 6. 8.-§ Geu, 50. 24.—|| Num. Luke, 2. 23.-† Infra, 22. 29. and 34. 19. Ezec. 14. 14. 2 Esdr. 9. 12. and 19. 1 Cor. 10. 1.

CHAP. XIII. Ver. 2. Sanctify unto me every first-ministry in the divine worship; and the first-born born. Sanctification in this place means that the first- of beasts to be given for a sacrifice,

orn males of the Hebrews should be deputed to the

5 And it was told the king of the Egyp-1 tians 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.

9 And when the Egyptians followed the steps of them who were gone before, they found them encamped at the sea side: all Pharao's horse and chariots, and the whole army were in Phihahiroth before Beelsephon. 10 And when Pharao drew near, the children of Israel lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians behind them: and they feared exceedingly, and cried to the Lord.

11 And they said to Moses: Perhaps there were no graves in Egypt, therefore thou hast brought us to die in the wilderness: why wouldst thou do this, to lead us out of Egypt?

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, which he will do this day: for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.

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 on dry ground.

17 And I will harden the heart of the Egyptians to pursue you: and I will be glorified in Pharao, and in all his host, and in his chariots, and in his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians shall know that am the Lord, when I shall be glorified in Pharao, and in his chariots and in his horsemen. 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,

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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.

• Jos. 24. 6. 1 Mac. 4. 9.-+ Ps. 77. 18, and 104. 37. and 113. 3. Heb. 11. 29.

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.

22 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 host.

25 And 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 wa ters 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 on that day out 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 servant.

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HEN Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord: and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.

2 The Lord is my strength and my praise, and he is become salvation to me: he is my God and I will glorify him: the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

3 The Lord is as a man of war, Almighty is his name.

4 Pharao's chariots and his army he hath cast into the sea: his chosen captains are drowned in the Red Sea.

Wisd. 18. 15.

§ Wisd. 10. 20.—|| Ps. 117. 14. Isa. 12. 2.

CHAP, XIV. Ver. 20. A dark cloud, and enlight- but enlightened the night to the Israelites, by giving cing the night. It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians; them a great light.

5 The depths have covered them, they are sunk to the bottom like a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord, is_magnified in strength: thy right hand, O Lord, hath slain the enemy.

7 And in the multitude of thy glory thou hast put down thy adversaries: thou hast sent thy wrath, which hath devoured them like stubble.

8 And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together: the flowing water stood, the depths were gathered together in the midst of the sea.

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 shewed 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 9 The enemy said: I will pursue and over-upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am take, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall the Lord thy healer. have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

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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

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.

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holiness, terrible and praise-worthy, doing The people murmur for want of meat: God giveth wonders?

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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.

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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.

them quails and manna.

ND they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: ‡ the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt. S

2 And all the congregation, of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

3 And the children of Israel said to them: Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat over the flesh-pots, and ate bread to the full: Why have you brought us into this desert, that you might destroy all the multitude with famine ?

4 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you: let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or no.

5 But the sixth day let them provide for to bring in: and let it be double to that they were wont to gather every day.

6 And Moses and Aaron said to the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the Lord hath brought you forth out of the land of Egypt:

7 And in the morning you shall see the 20 So Mary the prophetess the sister of glory of the Lord: for he hath heard your Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all murmuring against the Lord: but as for us, the women went forth after her with timbrels what are we, that you mutter against us? and with dances: 8 And Moses said: In the evening the

21 And she began the song to them, say-Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the ing: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is glo- morning bread to the full: for he hath heard riously magnified, the horse and his rider he your murmurings, with which you have murhath thrown into the sea. mured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord.

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

Judith, 5. 15. Eccli. 38. 5.-† Num. 33. 9.

9 Moses also said to Aaron: Say to the whole congregation of the children of Israel: Come before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmuring.

10 And when Aaron spoke to all the asWisd. 11. 2. § A. M. 2513.