Identifier: bibleprimeroldte00hult (find matches)
Title: Bible primer, Old Testament, for use in the primary department of Sunday schools
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hult, Adolf, 1869-1943 Augustana synod. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Rock Island, Ill., Augustana book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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But God remembered His poor people.One day He said to Moses: Go and say to Pharaoh, Letmy people go! Moses took Aaron, his brother, with himand went. Here he stands before the great king. Pharaoh has a hardheart. God had told Moses he had, and that he would notlet Israel go. To show Pharaoh how strong God is, Mosesthrows his staff, or walking stick, down on the ground. Itbecomes a serpent, or snake. Pharaoh pays no attention toit. He simply makes his heart harder against God. Hethinks Moses God can do nothing. Ah, he will learn to hissurprise how mighty our God is! Sq God sends ten plagues, or sufferings, upon Pharaoh andhis people. The one plague is worse than the other. At lastGod commands His angel to go into every Egyptian home,even Pharaohs home. The oldest son in every Egyptianhome is to die. Oh! Pharaoh had not thought of that. Afterevery one of the nine plagues Pharaoh hardened his heart.Will he do so when the last plague comes, too ?We shall see in the next story. Ex. 7—11.
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BIBLE PRIMER 49 22. THE PASSOVER. The story of how the loving God saves His people Israel. You remember, Pharaoh hardened his heart after each ofthe nine plagues. The tenth plague came. Every house wasto lose its oldest son. The angel of death was to kill them,in the home of Pharaoh as well as in the beggars home. But God wanted to save His people Israel. He said toMoses: Go to My people Israel. Tell every father to killa lamb, one year old. Then sprinkle the blood of the lambon the sides and top of the door of the house. When theangel of God comes at midnight, he will see the blood. Thenhe will pass over, pass by, that house. And all the peopleof Israel did so. They ate the meat of the lamb, too, in afamily feast. That was the Passover feast. Midnight came. Oh, hear the cries in the houses of theEgyptians! Even in Pharaohs palace! Only the people ofIsrael, Moses people, are spared. Then Pharaoh sends for Moses, at night. Take your peo-ple, he says, and be gone! And Moses obeys. What

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