This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: .how to worship God, and promising them His protection in return. Closely connected with this, though perhaps not belonging to the original book, are the additional laws which extend through chapter thirty-one.

A third and sharply separate section set down in the midst of this "covenant" is the code of social law, a series of civil and criminal ordinances regulating the intercourse of man with man. This notable code (chapters 21 and 22, with possibly part of 23), conceived in a high spirit of religious and ethical morality, is often spoken of as "the Book of Judgments." Finally in chapters thirty-four and thirty-five, after Israels folly, God again delivers the law to Moses, and the latter repeats its general outline to the people. Then the book of Exodus closes with the Israelites acceptance of the covenant with the Lord, and the building of His tabernacle in the wilderness. 96 THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES CALLED Cxobus Chapter 1 1 The children of Israel, after Josephs death, do multiply. 8 The more they are oppressed by a new king, the more they multiply. 15 The godliness of the midwives, in saving the men-children alive. 22 Pharaoh commandeth the male children to be cast iruo the river.

OW these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. 7 If And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled.