lagues of Locusts and Darkness J” hardened Phovech's heart.{{ The Hail destroyed both man
* Holzinger, Hexateuch, 176.
ἡ Her name is not given.
Σ Vv.11-15, sometimes given to J.
§ For (d) see after (Ώ.
᾿ Omitting the reference to the bush in v.@,
“1 Cf. Gop in vol. ii. 199.
** Often ascribed to R.
+t Not mentioned, however, in connexion with the Darkness, Ex 1021-3
2 Ex 102.27,
and beast, Ex 6} 71: 170. 200. 28 g22. 23a. 25a. 35 7012, 184, 14. 20-23. 27
(j) J” announced to Moses that, after the in
fliction of a final plague, Pharaoh would let the eople go; He bade him instruct them to borrow
Jewels of their neighbours. ‘J’ made the Exyp- tians favourably disposed towards the people. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, and in the eyes of Pharaoh’s ser- vants, and of the people.’ . . .* Pharaoh sent for Moses [and Aaron] by night, and bade them de- part with the Israelites. The latter borrowed jewels and raiment of their Egyptian neighbours, and started on their journey. They were armed, and carried with them the bones of Joseph. God led them to the wilderness of the Red Sea, to avoid the warlike Philistines, Ex 1])* 12%. 35. 36 1317-19,
(k) Pharaoh pursued with 600 chosen chariots; the Israelites cried unto J’, who bade them go forward ; Moses lifted up his rod: . . . the Angel of God placed himself between Israel and its pur- suers . . . and took off their chariot wheels . . {and when the Israelites saw what had been done they believed J” and His servant Moses], Ex 14%7 in part. 10d. 16bd, 198. 20a. 25a. $1,
(1) Miriam the prophetess [the sister of Aaron] t led the women in a triumphal dance, while they sang—
* Sing ye to J”, for he hath triumphed gloriously :
The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea,’ Ex 15. 2),
(n) J” gave the Israelites ‘ bread from heaven,’ i.e. manna, Ex 164.§
(p) They reached Horeb, where, finding them- selves without water in the wilderness, the people strove with Moses, who, by command of J’, smote a rock, and water came from it. Hence the place was called Meribah (‘striving’), Ex 17! 4-6 and the references to ‘ striving’ and ‘ Meribah’ in vy.” 7,
(q) || Moses went up to God, and received in- structions for the people to purify themselves in A elas for a Theophany on the third day.
his was done, Ex 19%: 8-9. 10. 11α. 14,16. Qn the third day there was a thunderstorm, and God descended on the mountain in a thick cloud, to the sound of a trumpet. Moses brought the people before the mountain to meet with God. Moses spake and God answered, Ex 19! 17-8, The poeple, terrified by the storm and the trumpet, fled from the mountain, and begged that they might hear God’s words through Moses, Moses reassured them, and ‘ drew near to the thick darkness where God was.’ God spake ‘all these words,’ i.e. the Ten Commandments.‘] Moses reported them to the elders of Israel; and the people promised to obey them; and Moses told J” their promise, Ex QOs-21. 1-17, 198-8. ** At J’”’s command Moses and Joshua went up to the mountain and remained there forty days and nights, leaving Aaron and Hur in charge of the people. But, meanwhile, Aaron, at the request of the people, made a golden calf as an image of J”; built an altar for it, and celebrated a feast to J”. At the end of the forty days, God gave Moses two tables of stone, written with the finger of God, and probably containing the Ten Commandments. As Moses and Joshua
* According to this analysis, E’s account of the Death of the Firstborn and the Institution of the Passover have been omitted ; but doubtless the final plague of 11! was the Death of the Firstborn, especially if 422 are E (so Bacon, etc.).
¢ V.31, usually assigned to J or R. ΕΒ account of the cross- ing of the Red Sea has been almost entirely omitted, probably because it was closely parallel to J's.
? Perhaps ΚΕ.
§ Usually ascribed to J.
1 For transposition of passages see ii. (q).
“1 Those usually so called.
** Bacon's order as in Exopus is 201-2! 196-8; but if so, ‘ these are the words’ in 196 have nothing to refer to.
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returned, they heard the noise of the feast; and when he came near, Moses saw the calf and the dancing. His anger waxed hot; he threw down the tables of stone, and broke them. He burned the calf, ground it to powder, and made the children of Israel drink water upon which the powder had been strewn; he reproached Aaron with his sin; and Aaron excused himself as having acted under compulsion. ‘Then Moses returned to J” and interceded for the people: ‘This people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold! Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.? And J” answered: ‘Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. And now go, lead the people into the place of which I have spoken unto thee. Behold, mine angel shall go before thee: nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.’ At these tidings the people mourned, and put off their ornaments, Ex 24)" 2S’ $218 9118ὃ0 HIE. 84 Bot 6... Various laws were given by J” to Moses, Ex 2078 2310-8 2929-31,