391 A SHORT VIEW OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. times ? A. Yes, he died in faith of the promise made to his fathers, that they should go and possess the land of Canaan ; and therefore lie required them, when they went, to carry up his bones and bury them in the promised land ; Gen. 1. 24, 25. CHAP. J.II. The Deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and of Mimes and Aaron. I QUESTION. WHO delivered the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt ? Answer. God heard their cry, and delivered them by the hand of Moses and Aaron ; Ex. iii. 9, 10. and xii. 31. Josh. xxiv. 5, 6. 2. Q. Who was Moses ? A. He was one of the family of Levi among the people of Israel, who was wonderfully saved from drowning when he was an infant; Ex. ii. 10. 3. Q. How was he in danger of drowning ? A. Pharaoh king of Egypt had commanded every male - child to be drowned; and when Moses's parents could hide him no longer, they laid him by the bank of the river in an ark or box of bull-rushes; Ex. i. 22. and ii. 3. 4. Q. How was he saved ? A. The king of Egypt's daughter found him by the river, and pitied the child, and brought hint up for her own son ; Exod. ii. 5, 6, 9. 5. Q. Did he continue a courtier in Egypt ? A. No ; for when he was grown a man he shewed his pity to his kindred in their slavery, and slew an Egyptian ; which being known, he fled from the court of Pharaoh ; Exod. ii. 11 -14. 6. Q. Whither did he fly ? A. To the land of Midian, where he kept the sheep of Jethro, a priest or prince of the country, and married his daughter ; Ex. ii. 14. and iii. 1. 7. Q. How did God appoint him to deliver Israel ? A. God appeared to him in a burning bush as he was keeping Jethro's sheep, and sent him to Pharaoh to require the release of Israel his people ; Exod. ii. 1 -18. 8. Q. What was his office afterward? A. God made hint the leader and lawgiver of the people of Israel ; Exod. xxxii. 34. Deut. xxxiii. 4, 5. John i. 17: 9. Q. Who was Aaron ? A. He was ,brother to Moses, and he was sent of God to meet him as he was returning to Egypt, and appointed to 'assist him in his dealingwith Pharaoh the ;. Exod. iv. 14, 27. 10. Q. What was Aaron's office afterward ? A. He was made the first high-priest of Israel. ; Exod. xxviii. 1. Heb. v. 1, 4. 11. Q. How did Moses and Aaron prove to Pharaoh and to the people that God had sent them upon this errand ? A. They
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