LVI. EXODUS, Chap. XII. Ver. 3. to 28. 99 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, The Fires on Pharaoh's Tower remifsly burn, 'Tis pafs'd--th' Almighty Word from Heav'n And on his radiant Face he wore a Frown But ftops at each protected Hebrews Door, And drops the Point, or waves it gently o'r: As when th' Unjuft compell'd to Judgement rise : Sa 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. AN Pharaoh late repriev'd fo foon rebel? The Prey he feem'd e'rwhile consent to lofe: The Sea in Front, their Flanks huge Mountains lin'd, And Pharaoh's num'rous Army prefs'd behind, LVIII. EXODUS, Chap. XIV. Ver. 5; to 15. 103 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. |