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 The Old Testament in Verse 4 (Verses 40 - 53)

  • » Date: 1892
  • » Subject: The Old Testament in Verse 4 (Verses 40 - 53)
  • » Written By: Laura Keene Gleaves
  • » Addressed To: All children and Sunday School Scholars
  • » Transcriber: John R. Rich III, her great-grandson
  • » File # 8025-04

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Exod

40

 

40

 

I

This Pharaoh he worked them, he starved them, he beat them,

1573

About this time Pharaoh orders all the male children of the Hebrews to be drowned.

 

15-22

He did all he could to out-rage and ill-treat them,

 

 

 

 

Each life was a burden, devoid of all joys

 

 

 

 

He murdered their children, their poor little boys!

 

 

 

 

41

 

41

 

II

So wicked the King, but so kind was his daughter,

1571

Moses is born, and is adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter.

 

5-9

She took little Moses from out of the water,

 

 

 

 

And his dear little sister, the princess espying,

 

 

 

 

The question of "Nursing" was apt in applying.

 

 


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42

 

42

 

 

For dearly she loved him, her dear little brother!

 

His sister, Miriam, called the mother of Moses, and the Princess gave her the boy to nurse.

 

2

And quickly she sought for, and brought her, her mother!

 

 

 

 

As she knew that that boy to their home was forbidden,

 

 

 

 

As three were the months that the child had been hidden.

 

 

 

 

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43

 

43

H- Hebrews (expelled from Egypt)

 

Thus Moses was rescued, the Hebrews to save,

1531

Moses, being 40 years old, kills an Egyptian whom he finds smiting A Hebrew.

 

11-12

We know of his dying, but not of his grave!

 

 

 

De.

We know that he saw them! -- his people afflicted,

 

 

 

XXXIV 6

And death on the cruel Egyptian inflicted.

 

 

 

 

44

 

44

 

2 Exod.

And when he had killed him, fromEgypthe fled!

1491

Moses flees to Midian.

 

II

And then to the daughter of Jethro was wed.

 

God appears in the Burning Bush, and sends him to deliver Israel.

 

15-21

And whilst he, the sheep of her father, attended

 

 

 

III 1-3

His God in the bush, that was burning, descended!

 

 

 

 

45

 

45

 

4

And God bade him return to the Israelites aid,

 

On Moses inflicting the ten plagues at God’s command, the Israelites are expelled from Egypt.

 

XII

And there he, the wicked Egyptian dismayed.

 

 

 

29-33

Till Pharaoh permitted the Jews to depart,

 

 

 

 

When the tenth plague had smitten his child and his heart.

 

 

 

 

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46

 

46

H- Hebrews

(over the Red Sea)

 

And yet was that heart with unkindness imbued!

 

The Egyptians pursuing the Hebrews are drowned in the Red Sea, they passing over as if on dry ground.

 

XIV

And yet were the Hebrews departing, pursued!

 

 

 

5-31

And then when theRed Seathe Hebrews had crossed,

 

 

 

 

The soldiers so rashly pursuing, were lost.

 

 

 

 

47

 

47

 

XV 20

And merry the singers that Miriam led!

 

God sends manna – and quails – and water from a rock.  Moses on Mount Sinai.

 

XVI 13-14

The Manna descended, the people were fed!

 

 

 

XXXII

And yet before Moses from Sinai descended,

 

 

 

1-6

The God of the Hebrews, the Hebrews offended.

 

 


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48

 

48

 

 

They'd fashioned a calf that should serve as a god!

 

Moses puts 3,000 idolators to death, and intercedes for the rest of the people.

 

28

Three thousand were slain, and forgiveness implored!

 

 

 

 

The tables were two, the Commandments were ten!

 

 

 

 

God-given, to govern the conduct of men.

 

 

 

 

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49

 

49

H- Hebrews (in the Wilderness)

Lev.
VIII

And Aaron and sons by their God were appointed!

1490

The Tabernacle is erected.  Aaron and his sons are consecrated. Jethro brings Zipporah and her sons.

 

6-36

And Moses, his brother and children, anointed!

 

 

 

Num.
I.19

And then of the Israelites numbered, we hear!

 

 

 

Ex.
XVIII 1-7

And then do the children of Moses appear!

 

 

 

 

50

 

50

 

 

The people had murmured for water and bread,

 

The people lust for flesh and God gives them quails in wrath at Kibroth hattaavah.

 

Num.

And when they'd received them, had murmured as bad!

 

 

 

XI

And when for the flesh-pots ofEgyptthey lusted,

 

 

 

31-35

They feasted, till sickened, diseased and disgusted.

 

 

 

 

51

 

51

 

 

And when they with Aaron at Paran arrive,

 

The 12 spies return from Canaan, all save Caleb and Joshua, bringing a false report of the land.

 

XIII

An entrance toCanaanthe chosen contrive.

 

 

 

17-33

They bring them an evil report of the land,

 

 

 

 

That Caleb and Joshua deny and withstand.

 

 


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52

 

52

 

 

And then do the murmurers, murmuring say,

 

The murmurers are doomed to wander 40 years and be consumed in the desert.

 

XIV

That Moses and Aaron, they will not obey.

 

 

 

1-35

And then are they destined to wander and die,

 

 

 

 

Though Canaan, fairCanaan, was blissfully nigh.

 

 

 

 

53

 

53

 

XVI

And when against Aaron the Hebrews conspired,

1471

252 Hebrews are swallowed up in the Earth.  14,700 die of a plague for rebelling against Moses & Aaron.

 

49

The Hebrews by hundreds and thousands expired.

 

 

 

XVII

As they were thus punished by Almighty God,

 

 

 

10-13

Whilst Aaron's the beautiful, blossoming rod.

 

 

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