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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. 59
2-. Who inflicted on them a terrible punishment, taking ilway their land, their flocks and their possessions. Israel was reduced to slavery by the powerful and rich Pharaohs who then reigned in Egypt.
The latter had made slaves of the Israclitcs and treated them worse than bcasts, overloading them with heavy and difficult work and putting them in irons and covering their bodies with wounds and scars, denying them sufficient food and shelter.
---4.-.. This was in order to keep them in a state of continual fcar and deprive them of all rescinblance to human beings;
And in this great calamity the people of Israel, remembering their heavenly Protector, prayed and iinplored His grace and pity.
An illustrious Pharaoli reigned in Egypt at this time who rendered himself famous by his numcrous victories and riches which lie had accumulated and the large palaces which his slaves had erected with their own hands.
---7--- This Pharaoh had two sons, the younger of whom was called Mossa; the wisc mcn of Israel taught him different scicnccs.
--8And they loved Mossa in Egypt for his kindness and for the compassion which he showed to all those who suffered.
Sceing that the Israclites would not, in spite of the
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