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THE DEPARTURE OF THE ISRAELITES FROM EGYPT 97
MOSES LEADS THE ISRAELITES OUT OF EGYPT
This great sorrow softened the heart of Pharao. He summoned Moses and Aaron and told them to lead the Israelites out of the land of Egypt without delay. The Israelites left Egypt two hundred and fteen years after the kind Pharao, the friend of Joseph, had given the land of Gessen to Jacob and his posterity.
4. Goo PROTECTS THE IsRAELITES IN THEIR DEPARTURE
The number of Israelites who set out from Egypt The on that night with Moses and Aaron was six hundred d re thom1and, besides the women and children. They took
with them all their possessions of clothing, their orna­ ments, their vessels of gold and silver, their weapons,