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therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in and honie, euen into the place of the Canaanites,
the lande of Midian, and hee sate downe by a well. and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Per-
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16 And the Priest of Midian had seue daughters, izzites, and the Hiuites, and the Iebusites. And
which came and drewe water, and filled the now lo, the crie of the children of Israel is come
troghes, fortowatertheirfatherssheepe. 17 Then vnto me, and I haue also seene ye oppression,
the shepherds came and droue them away: but wherewith the Egyptians oppresse them. 10 Come
Moses rose vp and defended them, and watered now therefore, and I will send thee vnto Pharaoh,
their sheepe. 18 And whe they came to Reuel their that thou maiest bring my people the children of
father, he said, Howe are ye come so soone to Israel out of Egypt. 11 But Moses said vnto God,
day? 19 And they saide, A man of Egypt deliuered Who am I, that I should go vnto Pharaoh, and that
vs from the hand of the shepherdes, and also I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?
drew vs water ynough, and watered the sheepe. 12 And he answered, Certainely I will be with
20 Then he saide vnto his daughters, And where thee: and this shall be a token vnto thee, that I
is he? why haue ye so left the man? call him haue sent thee, After that thou hast brought the
that he may eate bread. 21 And Moses agreed people out of Egypt, ye shall serue God vpon this
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to dwell with the man: who gaue vnto Moses Mountaine. Then Moses said vnto God, Behold,
when I shall come vnto the children of Israel, and
Zipporah his daughter: 22 And she bare a sonne, shall say vnto them, The God of your fathers hath
whose name he called Gershom: for he said, I sent me vnto you: if they say vnto me, What is
haue bene a stranger in a strange lande. 23 Then his Name? what shall I say vnto them? 14 And
in processe of time, the King of Egypt dyed, and God answered Moses, I Am That I Am. Also he
the children of Israel sighed for the bondage and said, Thus shalt thou say vnto the children of
cryed: and their crie for the bondage came vp Israel, I Am hath sent me vnto you. 15 And God
vnto God. 24 Then God heard their mone, and God spake further vnto Moses, Thus shalt thou say
remembred his couenant with Abraham, Izhak, vnto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your
and Iaakob. 25 So God looked vpon the children
of Israel, and God had respect vnto them. fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak,
and the God of Iaakob hath sent me vnto you: this
3 is my Name for euer, and this is my memoriall
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1 When Moses kept the sheepe of Iethro his vnto all ages. Go and gather the Elders of
Israel together, and thou shalt say vnto the, The
father in lawe, Priest of Midian, and droue the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
flocke to the backe side of the desert, and came
to the Mountaine of God, Horeb, Then the Angel Izhak, and Iaakob appeared vnto me, and said, I
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of the Lord appeared vnto him in a flame of fire, haue surely remembred you, and that which is
out of the middes of a bush: and he looked, and done to you in Egypt. 17 Therefore I did say, I
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush wil bring you out of the affliction of Egypt vnto
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was not consumed. Therefore Moses saide, I will the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
turne aside nowe, and see this great sight, why the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hiuites,
the bush burneth not. And when the Lord sawe and the Iebusites, vnto a lande that floweth with
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that he turned aside to see, God called vnto him milke and honie. 18 Then shall they obey thy
out of the middes of the bush, and said, Moses, voyce, and thou and the Elders of Israel shall go
Moses. And he answered, I am here. 5 Then he vnto the King of Egypt, and say vnto him, The
saide, Come not hither, put thy shooes off thy Lord God of the Ebrewes hath met with vs: we
feete: for the place whereon thou standest is holy pray thee nowe therefore, let vs goe three dayes
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ground. Moreouer he saide, I am the God of thy iourney in the wildernesse, that we may sacrifice
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and vnto the Lord our God. 19 But I know, that the
the God of Iaakob. Then Moses hid his face: for King of Egypt wil not let you goe, but by strong
he was afraid to looke vpon God. Then the Lord hande. 20 Therefore will I stretch out mine hande
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said, I haue surely seene the trouble of my people, and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I
which are in Egypt, and haue heard their crie, will doe in the middes thereof: and after that
because of their taskemasters: for I knowe their shall he let you goe. 21 And I will make this
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sorowes. Therefore I am come downe to deliuer people to be fauoured of the Egyptians: so that
them out of the hande of the Egyptians, and to when ye go, ye shall not goe emptie. 22 For euery
bring them out of that lande into a good lande woman shall aske of her neighbour, and of her
and a large, into a lande that floweth with milke