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Chapter
XXXIV.—The Israelites in Egypt.
“Nevertheless, as he had got these two sons
during the time while he still lived in ignorance of things, having
received the knowledge of God, he asked of the Righteous One that he
might merit to have offspring by Sarah, who was his lawful wife, though
she was barren. She obtained a son. whom he named Isaac, from
whom came Jacob, and from him the twelve patriarchs, and from these
twelve seventy-two. These, when famine befell came into Egypt
with all their family; and in the course of four hundred years, being
multiplied by the blessing and promise of God, they were afflicted by
the Egyptians. And when they were afflicted the true Prophet
appeared to Moses,556
and struck the
Egyptians with ten plagues, when they refused to let the Hebrew people
depart from them, and return to their native land; and he brought the
people of God out of Egypt. But those of the Egyptians who
survived the plagues, being infected with the animosity of their king,
pursued after the Hebrews. And when they had overtaken them at
the sea-shore, and thought to destroy and exterminate them all, Moses,
pouring out prayer to God, divided the sea into two parts, so that the
water was held on the right hand and on the left as if it had been
frozen, and the people of God passed as over a dry road; but the
Egyptians who were pursuing them, rashly entering, were drowned.
For when the last of the Hebrews came out, the last of the Egyptians
went down into the sea; and straightway the waters of the sea, which by his command
were held bound as with frost, were loosed by his command who had bound
them, and recovering their natural freedom, inflicted punishment on the
wicked nation.
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