. Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone. known tothem. 4 And I have also established My Covenant with them, to give to themthe land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings in which they And I have also heard the sighing of the children of Israel, whom theEgyptians make to serve, and I have remembered My Covenant. . [Here the Elohistic Narrative ends abruptly, having been broken off perhapsthrough the sickness or death of the writer, or perhaps because he had completedthe special work which he had set himself to do, viz. to record the history of theprimeval times, down t
. Lectures on the Pentateuch and the Moabite stone. known tothem. 4 And I have also established My Covenant with them, to give to themthe land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings in which they And I have also heard the sighing of the children of Israel, whom theEgyptians make to serve, and I have remembered My Covenant. . [Here the Elohistic Narrative ends abruptly, having been broken off perhapsthrough the sickness or death of the writer, or perhaps because he had completedthe special work which he had set himself to do, viz. to record the history of theprimeval times, down to the revelation of the name Jehovah at the time of theExodus.] * The Elohist here mentions Moses for the first time in what now remains of hiswork, and may have given a short notice about his birth between this passage , which the Jehovist has replaced by his more circumstantial this assumption is not absolutely necessary. We see that Joshua is introducedquite as abruptly by the Jehovist in and Hur in v. APPENDIX II. THE ORIGINAL STORY OF THE EXODUS, The sign || denotes that here an interpolation occurs in the Original Story,The passages within [ ] belong to the Elohistic JVarrative. I. [^-And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came toEgypt with Jacob,—each and his house they came : 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi,and Judah, 3Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4Dan and Naphtali, Gad andAsher. 5 And all the souls that went-forth out of Jacobs thigh were seventysouls; and Joseph was in Egypt, 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 Andthe children of Israel fructified and teemed and multiplied, and were exceed-ingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.] 8 And there arose a newking over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Lo !the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and mighty than Come on ! let us deal-wisely with it, lest it multiply, and it come-to-p
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