the good, whom God chose for his obedience, ten fathers,
and that is a thousand and two hundred years. And men served the Devil instead
of God, and went after things that were forbidden and were in rebellion against
God, except the saints of God, and there were few of these in their time to warn
them and call them to God. Some of them met with grievous trial and open enmity
from their neighbours and jealousy from men. Then between Abraham and Moses, the
Prophet of God, there were four hundred and [thirty] years. Men became worse
than they had ever been, wickeder in deed and uglier in look. Evil was wrought
among men, the work of wicked Satan appeared among them. The people of Sodom,
among whom Lot, the son of Abraham's brother, dwelt, wrought the lewd and wicked
and ugly deed, so God destroyed them by a rain of fire and naphtha, and not one
of them was saved; and God delivered Lot and his daughters from destruction.
Verily God is with those who fear Him and do right.
Then Israel and his sons went into Egypt, and they were seventy-five souls,
men and women and boys. God multiplied and increased them till they became
600,000 and more. There arose over Egypt another Pharaoh who knew not Joseph. He
separated them and brought them heavy work, and he wished to destroy the
children of Israel. He made himself a god and caused them to work at heavy
building, made them toil to the utmost and killed their sons. But God saved
Moses, and Pharaoh's daughter brought him up. The children of Israel implored
God to save them from the toil they were in, and from the hand of Pharaoh. And
God answered them and appeared to them in His mercy. And Moses fled out of
Egypt, and God led him till he reached Mount Sinai, and God verily spake with
him from the right side of the mountain and said to him, "The wailing of
the children of Israel has come up to Me, and their toil wherewith Pharaoh and
his people make them toil." So God sent him to Pharaoh and strengthened him
by great and mighty signs and strong power. Then God clave the Sea for the
children of Israel and made them pass through the midst of it, and drowned
Pharaoh and his hosts. And God was terrible in
