twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dra. gon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers; thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven. And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. Behold, therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot beast shall pass through it, neither shall it inhabited forty years. And I will make the lar of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countri that are desolate, and her cities among the citi that are laid waste shall be desolate forty year and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nation and will disperse them through the countries. Y thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty yea will I gather the Egyptians from the people whith they were scattered: and I will bring again t captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to retu into the land of Pathros, into the land of the habitation; and they shall be there a base kin dom. It shall be the basest of the kingdom neither shall it exalt itself any more above t nations for I will diminish them, that they sha no more rule over the nations. And it shall be more the confidence of the house of Israel, whi bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when the shall look after them: but they shall know that am the Lord God. And it came to pass in t seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in t first day of the month, the word of the Lord can unto me, saying, Thus saith the Lord God; Behol I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezz king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitud and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it sh be the wages for his army. I have given him t

land of Favnt for his labour wherewith he serv

use of Israel to bud forth, and I will give he opening of the mouth in the midst of and they shall know that I am the Lord.

ORTION (BOW EL PARRAH).

CHAPTER X.

d the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto oh: for I have hardened his heart, and the of his servants, that I might shew these my before him and that thou mayest tell in the of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have among them; that ye may know how that I the Lord. And Moses and Aaron came in unto raoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to able thyself before me? let my people go, that 7 may serve me. Else, if thou refuse to let my ple go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the ists into thy coast: and they shall cover the e of the earth, that one cannot be able to see earth and they shall eat the residue of that ich is escaped, which remaineth unto you from hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for u out of the field: and they shall fill thy houses, d the houses of all thy servants, and the houses all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor y fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that ey were upon the earth unto this day. And he

Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go? And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord. And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. Not so go now, ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green

thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only. And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord. And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed let your little ones also go with you. And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's