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LVI.

EXODUS, Chap. XII. Ver. 3. to 28.

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V.3.

In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.

5. Your lamb fhall be without blemish, amale of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats.

9. Eat not of it raw, nor fodden at all with water, but roft with fire: his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

11. And thus fhall ye eat it; with your loyns girded, your shoes on your feet, and your ftaff in your hand: and ye fhall eat it in bafte; it is the Lords paffover.

LVII.

The Death of the Firstborn.

ND now the Night her fable Wings difplaid,
And half the World lay drown'd in dusky
fhade:

The Fires on Pharaoh's Tower remifsly burn,
And fnatch fhort Life from their exhausted Urn:
Lean Avarice flumbers o'r its useless store,
Ev'n Malice Sleeps, in fome to wake no more.
Fix'd in their Orbs the fickning Planets stand,
And Ammon trembles for his darling Land.

'Tis pafs'd--th' Almighty Word from Heav'n
leap'd down,

And on his radiant Face he wore a Frown
To Angels terrible; his Sword unheaths,
Walks thro' the Land, and deals Ten Thousand
Deaths;

But ftops at each protected Hebrews Door,

And drops the Point, or waves it gently o'r:
Then, as the Nile, where Hills or Damms oppose,
When these surpass'd, with greater Fury flows,
He shoots away and draws a purple Flood,
Agen the Land is drunk with Seas of Blood.
What steely Heart can bear, what Tongue recite
The mortal Terrors of that dreadful Night?
Expiring Groans the gentleft Sounds they hear,
And fomething worfe than Death the Living fear:
An Univerfal Shriek invades the Skies;

As when th' Unjuft compell'd to Judgement rise :

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So Pharaoh role amidst his glastly Friends, And now for Mofes not diffembling fends; He beggs, he fues, he haftens him away, No Children now, or Goods behind must stay: Nor empty thence, nor unadorn'd they went, Loaden with Jewels by th' Egyptians lent: The Hofts of God, led by his own ftrong-Hand In peaceful Triumph march from Egypts hated Land.

EXODUS, Chap. XII. 29. to 33

29. At midnight the Lord fmote all the firft-born in the Land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that fat on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of

cattel.

30. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his fervants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

31. And he called for Mofes and Aaron by night, and faid, rife up, and get you up from amongst my people, both you and the children of Ifrael: and go, ferve the Lord, as ye have faid, &c.

LVIII.

Pharaoh pursues the Ifraelites.

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AN Pharaoh late repriev'd fo foon rebel?
He can, he does he grows too ripe for Hell.
(When refpite once a perjur'd Tyrant gains,
Nothing can hold him but infernal Chains.)
Leviathan the Great enrag'd, purfues

The Prey he feem'd e'rwhile consent to lofe:
Chariots, and Horfe which knew not to retire
(But how can Stubble face confuming Fire ?)
He leads, defenceless Ifracl to oppress,
Entangl'd in th' impervious Wilderness.

The Sea in Front, their Flanks huge Mountains lin'd,

And Pharaoh's num'rous Army prefs'd behind,
The fervile Crowd, base as the Chains they wore
Envy the Bondage which they mourn'd before:
In vain the fiery Column now may shine,
Dumb Idols fear'd above the Pow'r divine.
Mofes to God for speedy Succour flies,
And God to Mofes from the Cloud replies:
Let not the Hours in weak Complaints run waste,
But give the word to march, and forward hafte!
March for the founding Shore without delay,
And he that bids you go will make, or find the
Way.

LVIII.

EXODUS, Chap. XIV. Ver. 5; to 15.

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v.6. Pharaoh made ready his chariot, and took his people with him.

7. And he took fix hundred chofen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

8. And he pursued after the children of Ifrael: and the children of Ifrael went out with an high hand.

9. But the Egyptians pursued after them, (all the borfes and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army) and overtook them encamping by the Sea.

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