it appears from Exod: 23: 18: and 34: 25. Numb: 9:7, 1 3: Dent: 16: | rowing and lending,yet indeed the 1ſ-aelires did not ſo much borrow 2, 5: andbecauſe there was in it the thedding and ſprinkling of | ag defire, as the Hebrew word rendred borrow, ( ver: 35:) ſignifies;and | Blood, wherein the Efſence of a Sacrifice couſiſts, 2 Chron: 30: 16: | the Egyptians did not reckon theſe things as lent,and to be reſtored, |: and 35: 11, 13: and alſo a Sacrament, azit was received and eaten | yur as given, and never to be expeCted again ; even as Pharaoh and | by Men. 7 In tok-n of their thankful acknowledgment of God's | his people rightly judged, that jfthe Jaelites were once permitted favours, .and of theirchearful ſuumiſſion to God's Command and | tg» go out of the Land with their whole Families and Eftates, they | Ordinance. See 2 Chron: 29: 30. would never return again, -chap: 14:5. And in truth the Egyptians
28 And the children o - 1 | didand might eſteem it a good bargain to give theſe things to re- | as the LORD had _ Dt oo on deem their Lives, and to 1Ngage the 1/raebtes to a ſpeedy deparrure, 2
knowing that otherwiſe both their Perſons and all their Eſtates were
| did they ms, | in extrejae hazard, 4. Becauſe, if theſe Jewels were properly bor- | N 5 rowed
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12p. XI... | wed,yet theEgyptions by their cauſcleſs and hoſtile purſuit afrerthe Weaelires with —— to Moy them,did fully diſcharge them from all obligations to reſtitution,and give thema right nor only to keep i theſe Goods, but to take any other which they could from the Ezy- [ ptians,according to the known and approve Laws of War. W «Nom 7 * And the children of Iſrael journeyed from * Ra- | _YO- meſes to Succoth b, about * Six hundred thouſand c on
[ : Gen. 47. foot, that were men 4, beſide children e. bl b A place ſo called, either becauſe there the 1/-aelites firſt lodged
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| * Chap. jn Booths or Tents, whereas before they dwelt in houſes ; or be- 38. 26. cauſe there God firſt ſpread his Cloud of fire over them, for 4 cover-
* Numb. r. ng, Pal: 105: 39+ c To wit, grown and ſtrong men, and fit for { 46. and War, among whom there was none feeble or ſick, Pſa!: 105: 37- | ar. 21. Thus the Heathen Writer Cheremon, mentioned by Joſephus, ſpeak-
ing of this matter, reckons up firſt 250 thouſand, and then 380 thouſand more. 4 The Hebrew word properly ſignifies ſtrong and able men, fit to go on foot in battel-array ; ſo decrepit or weak old men are not comprehended in this number. e And Women, whole pre- ſence and afliſtance is neceſſary to them. See Exod: 10: 24. Some | fay the Hebrew word taph ſignifies their houſholds or families, which | + Heb. « conſiſt principally of Women and Children. ; 238 And a + mixed multitude f went alſo up with
them, and flocks, and herds, even very much cattel. f Conſiſting of Egyptians or other people, who went with them, cither becauſe they were their ſervants, or that by this meansthey + might tree themſelves from the ſervirude which they endured under hard maſters in Egypt ; or becauſe the glorious works which they had ſeen, had raiſed their eſteem of God and of his Feople, and made them expe& a fhare in the great Felicities which they preſumed would be conferred upon a People fo highly honoured and belove:
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Hearts were not lincere, nor their Ends right, they ſoon repented of their choice, Numb: 11: 4. Corfipare Zech: 8: 23. H 29 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough
__ which they broughtforth out of Egypt, for it was not F * Chap.6. leavencd 7 : becauſe * they were thruſt out of Egypt þ, | 2.and 11. gndcould not tarry, neither had they prepared for
= themſelves any victuals. £ Both becauſe leavenwas forbidden to them at that time, and becauſe the great haſte required, gave them not time for leavening it. þ Not by. force, but by importunat requeſts, as was obſerved on wer: 33. Thus men are ſaid to be driven to. worſhip the ſun, moon, &&. when they are perſwaded to it, Deut: 4: 19. 40 Now the ſojourning of the chijdren of Iſrael, who
*Gen. 15. dwelt in Egypt,wss * four hundred and thirty years 5.