. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . the He-brews it should be put to death atonce; but a girl child might live. And this was thecause of great grief to the poor bond slaves, whowere forced to do the will of the great king. One day the prin-cess went down to bathe in thestream that ran near her house. And her maidswent with her. And as she stood on the shore of theNile, she caught sight of a small boat built like anark, that was hid in the reeds, and sent her maids tofetch it out. When the prin-cess looked in the ark she saw thechi
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . the He-brews it should be put to death atonce; but a girl child might live. And this was thecause of great grief to the poor bond slaves, whowere forced to do the will of the great king. One day the prin-cess went down to bathe in thestream that ran near her house. And her maidswent with her. And as she stood on the shore of theNile, she caught sight of a small boat built like anark, that was hid in the reeds, and sent her maids tofetch it out. When the prin-cess looked in the ark she saw thechild. And the babe wept. And the prin-cesstried to soothe it, but the child cried the more, for hervoice was a strange one. And she said, This is aHe-brew child. And one of her maids spoke up, and said, Shall Iget thee a He-brew nurse, that she may nurse thechild for thee ? And the prin-cess said, Yes; go. And the maid brought her own and the babesmoth-er, to whom the prin-cess said, Take this childand nurse it for me, and I will pay thee for it. And the wo-man took the child and took careof Y. F. B.—7 THE FIND-IXG OF MO-SES. (97) 98 History of the Old Testament. And the child grew, and was brought down toPha-ra-ohs house, and the prin-cess made him herson, and gave him the name of Mo-ses; whichmeans Drawn out. One day, when Mo-ses had grown to be a man,he went out to look at those of his own race, and towatch them at their tasks. And while he stoodthere a man from E-gypt struck one of the Jews;and when Mo-ses looked to the right and to the leftand saw that no one was near, he slew the one fromE-gypt and hid him in the sand. And the next day, when he went out, he sawthere was a fight be-tween two He-brews. And hesaid to the one who was in the wrong, Why did youstrike that man ? And he said, Who made thee our judge? Dostthou want to kill me, as thou didst the one fromE-gypt ? And Mo-ses was scared, for he thought no oneknew of this deed. As soon as it came to the ears of th
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