Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art (1899) (14794476273)

Identifier: sweetstoriesofgo00poll (find matches)
Title: Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pollard, Josephine, 1834-1892. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bible stories, English
Publisher: New York, Akron, Ohio (etc.) The Werner company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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Through the Red Sea and the Wilderness. 101 of fire stream out of a bush, and the bush was notburnt in the least. As he drew near the bush the Lord spoke to himout of the flame, and Mo- ses hid his face, for hedared not look on God. The Lord said, Thecry of the chil-dren of Is-ra-el has come up to me,and I have seen how illthey have been used.And I will send thee toPha-ra-oh that thou maystbring them forth out ofthe land of E-gypt. But Mo-ses was lothto go. And the Lord said,What is that in thinehand? And Moses said,A rod, And the Lordsaid, Cast it on theground. And he cast iton the ground, and it was changed to a snake, andMo-ses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Mo-ses,Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. AndMo-ses did so, and it was a rod in his hand. And
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MO-SES BROUGHT BE-FORE PHA-RA-OHS DAUGH-TER, 102 History of the Old Testament. the Lord said, Put now thy hand in on thy breast.And he put it in, and when he drew it out it waswhite, and like a dead hand. And he put his handin once more, and drew it out, and it wat like therest of his flesh. Then Mo-ses said, O, my Lord, I am not fit to dothis work, for I am slow of speech, and a man of fewwords. And the Lord said to him, I will be with thee,and teach thee what thou wilt say. Still Mo-ses was loth to go, and the Lord waswroth with him, and said, Take Aa-ron with thee.He can speak well. And thou shalt tell him whatto say and do, and I will teach you, and with thisrod in thy hand thou shalt do great things, as if thouwert God. So Mo-ses took his wife and his sons and putthem on an ass, and went back to E-gypt with the rodof God in his hand. And Mo-ses and Aa-ron went in to the king andbegged him to let the He-brews go out of the land.And he would not; but laid more work on the men,and b