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 to slay his son. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And said, here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thoust only son, from me.

When his mother could no longer hide him, she took for his an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitel and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by thy river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would he done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrew's children.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak to the Israelites, that they go forward; and lift thou thy rod, and stretch thy hand over the red sea, to divide it, and the children of Israel shall go over on dry land. And the Lord made the sea to go back by a strong east wind, and the waters were divided, so that the children of Israel went over on dry ground,-the waters being a wall to them on the right land and on the left. And the Egyptians pursued them into the midst of the sea. In the morning-watch, the Lord troubled the host of the Egyptians,