{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_36743/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_36743","id":"gutenberg_36743","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36743","summary":null,"tags":["Bible stories -- Old Testament","Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Moses (Biblical leader) -- Juvenile literature"],"text":"</pre>\n\n\n\nProduced by Larry B. Harrison, Archives and Special\nCollections, University Libraries, Ball State University\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  THE\n  CHILD'S BOOK\n  ABOUT\n  MOSES.\n\n  [Illustration]\n\n  CONCORD, N.H.\n  RUFUS MERRILL AND CO.\n  1843.\n\n\n\n\nThe Alphabet.\n\n\n  A  B  C  D  E  F  G\n\n  H  I  J  K  L  M  N\n\n  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U\n\n     V  W  X  Y  Z\n\n\n  a  b  c  d  e  f  g\n\n  h  i  j  k  l  m  n\n\n  o  p  q  r  s  t  u\n\n     v  w  x  y  z\n\n\n\n\nMOSES.\n\n\nMoses was born in the year of the world 2433. His parents lived in\nEgypt. Before his birth, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, being fearful of\ntheir increase, had given orders to have every male infant of the\nHebrews murdered. The father and mother of Moses were Hebrews, and,\nlike other parents, they loved their child too much to have him\ninjured. Besides, they thought they saw something very promising in\nhis appearance, as if he would make a great and good man, if he were\nrightly trained: they therefore kept him hid three months.\n\nWhen they could hide him no longer, his mother, Jochebed, made an ark\nor chest of bulrushes, and having pitched it that it might be water\nproof, she put Moses into it, and laid it near the banks of the river\nNile, and prayed to God for the safety of her child.\n\nHe had not lain long in this condition, when Pharaoh's daughter, coming\nto wash, observed the ark, and directed one of her maids to fetch it;\nand opening it, she found the child. She was struck with the beauty of\nthe babe, and was affected at its weeping; for the poor child cried,\nbeing separated from its mother: supposing it to be one of the Hebrews'\nchildren, the princess resolved to bring it up as a child of her own.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nMiriam, the sister of Moses, then about ten or twelve years of age,\nwho waited near by, asked Pharaoh's daughter if she might not find a\nnurse for her, and being allowed to do it, she called Jochebed, the\nchild's mother. Thus her prayer was answered, and she had the care of\nthe child besides.\n\nHe was named _Moses_, which signifies being taken out of the water. He\nwas educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and was treated in\nall respects as if he were the son of the princess.\n\nAfter he became of age, while walking forth one day, he observed with\nindignation the oppression of his brethren; and seeing an Egyptian\nsmiting a Hebrew, he became so excited, that he interfered, and killed\nthe Egyptian. Fearful of the consequences of this rash act, he fled\ninto the land of Midian, where he became a shepherd.\n\nAs Moses led his flocks one day near to the north or west side of Mount\nSinai, the Lord appeared to him in a bush, burning but not consumed.\nMoses was astonished at the sight, and went near to see the miracle.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nAnd the Lord spoke to him out of the bush, and told him to put off his\nshoes before he came any nearer, as the spot was sacred on account of\nthe presence of God. We should never go into the presence of God, or\nengage in his worship, without being solemn and attentive.\n\nGod then declared himself to Moses to be the God of Abraham, Isaac,\nand Jacob, and told him that, on account of the promise he had made,\nand in view of what his oppressed people suffered from the cruel\nEgyptians, he now intended to deliver them, and bring them into\nCanaan, and would make Moses the instrument of this.\n\nThe Hebrews, at the command of God, and under the direction of Moses,\nleft Egypt at last in great haste, and took their journey to the\nsouth-east. Pharaoh and his people were soon sorry that they had\nconsented to let them go, and followed with a great army to bring\nthem back, and nearly overtook them on the west side of the Red Sea.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nThe Hebrews were now afraid of the Egyptians, and not believing in God\nas they should have done, they exclaimed against Moses for bringing\nthem out of Egypt. Moses prayed to the Lord for deliverance. That part\nof the Red Sea where they now were, was not many miles broad. God told\nMoses to stretch his rod over it. He did so, and God caused the waters\nto be separated, so that a passage was made for the Hebrews through\nthe sea, and they arrived safe upon the other side.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nPharaoh and the Egyptians, being resolved to overtake the Hebrews, if\npossible, and carry them back to Egypt, pursued after them into the\npassage which the Lord had made for the Hebrews in the sea. But God\nknew how to preserve his people from these wicked and cruel Egyptians.\nHe caused them to meet with difficulties in the passage, and made the\nway dark unto them. And when the Hebrews were all over, and the\nEgyptians in the channel, God directed Moses to stretch his rod\ntowards the sea; and being moved by a strong wind which the Lord sent,\nthe waters of the sea suddenly returned to their former place, and\ndrowned the whole of them.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nIn order to direct them on their way through the wilderness, God caused\na pillar of a cloud, or a cloud in the form of a pillar or column,\nextending upwards toward heaven, to hover over the camp or tents of the\nHebrews. In the day-time it appeared as mist, and protected them from\nthe scorching sun. In the night, it seemed a pillar of fire, and gave\nthem light. When they encamped, it hovered above them over the\ntabernacle; when they marched, it went before them. Forty years it\nattended them, until they had arrived at the promised land.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nOn the east side of the sea, Moses and the men, and Miriam and the\nwomen of the Hebrews, sung a song of praise to God for their\nmiraculous deliverance.--We ought to thank God when he delivers us\nfrom evil, and be afraid to sin against him as the Egyptians did.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nAt Kadesh, the Hebrews murmured because there was no water for them\nand their cattle. And Moses and Aaron his brother looked unto the\nLord to know what they should do. And he directed Moses unto a rock\nwhich was there, to smite it with his rod, and it should give forth\nwater. And Moses did so, and water came out, and the people drank\nthereof, and their cattle also.\n\nThe tabernacle, which was built for the worship of God in the\nwilderness, was finished, and Moses, at the command of God,\nconsecrated Aaron and his sons to the office of priests, and dedicated\nthe tabernacle with all its vessels. It was the business of the\npriests to take the oversight of the tabernacle and all the furniture;\nthey slew, burnt, and poured out the blood of the sacrifices; they put\nthe shew-bread on the golden table; they offered the incense; they\nblew the silver trumpets; they supplied with oil, and lighted and\nsnuffed the sacred lamps, and took down and set up the tabernacle.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nKorah, Dathan, and Abiram, and other chiefs of the congregation,\nenvying the authority of Moses and Aaron, formed a party against them.\nThey haughtily upbraided Moses and Aaron as taking too much upon them.\nMoses replied that they were too arrogant to find fault with what God\nhad ordered, and that the next day the Lord would show whom he\nallowed to officiate in the high priesthood. He advised Korah with his\nassociates to appear with their censers full of incense to stand the\ntrial. They did so, and put sacred fire into their censers. God\nordered Moses and Aaron to separate themselves from them, that he\nmight destroy them instantly. They did so; and the Lord caused the\nearth to open and swallow up alive Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and all\ntheir families. Thus were these wicked men, and those who adhered to\nthem, destroyed for their arrogance and impiety.\n\n[Illustration]\n\nIn the eleventh month of the fortieth year after the coming out of\nEgypt, Moses made a long discourse to the people, exhorting them to be\nfaithful in the service of God, and warning them of the judgments\nwhich would be sent upon them if they departed from him.\n\nAt the beginning of the twelfth month, Moses ascended Mount Nebo,\nwhere he obtained a view of the land of Canaan. And there Moses the\nservant of the Lord died; and the children of Israel wept for Moses in\nthe plain of Moab thirty days.--May we be good and faithful like this\ngreat man. Then not only our friends, but God will love us, and when\nwe die, he will take us home to glory.\n\n\n\n\n  NEW AND AMUSING\n  TOYS,\n  Published by RUFUS MERRILL & CO.\n  CONCORD, N. H.\n\n\nSeries No. 2, or two cent Toys, containing 12 Nos. as follows, viz.\n\n    No. 1, History of Beasts.\n\n        2, Description of Various Nations.\n\n        3, History of Animals.\n\n        4, The Child's Book about Moses.\n\n        5, My little Song Book.\n\n        6, Nursery Rhymes.\n\n        7, History of Birds.\n\n        8, The Child's Book about Birds.\n\n        9, The Sailor Boy.\n\n       10, The Child's Book about Whales.\n\n       11, History of the Bible.\n\n       12, Life of Joseph.\n\nR. M. & Co. also publish =Webster's First Book, or the Elementary\nPrimer=, being an Introduction to the Spelling Book. By Noah Webster.\nPrice 6 cents single.\n\nThey have also in press a Series of No. 1, or one cent Toys, containing\n12 Nos. of amusing and instructive matter for the young Child; also a\nseries of No. 4, or six cent Toys, on the Natural History of Birds,\nBeasts, Reptiles, and Plants, and the Character of different Nations. To\nbe illustrated with engravings, and executed in beautiful style.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's Note\n\n\n  * Punctuation errors have been corrected.\n\n  * Text enclosed between equal signs was in bold face in the\n  original (=bold=).","title":"The Child's Book About Moses","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1695}