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18 And when they came to Raguel their father, he sayde: Howe came it to passe that ye are come so soone to day? 19 And they aunswered: A man of Egypt deliuered vs from the handes of the shepheardes, and so drewe vs water, and watered the sheepe. 20 He saide vnto his daughters: & where is he? why haue ye so left the man? Call hym, that he may eate bread. 21 And Moyses was content to dwell with the man: & he gaue Moyses Sephora his daughter: 22 Which bare him a sonne, and he called his name Gershom: For he saide, I haue ben a straunger in a straunge land. 23 And in processe of tyme the kyng of Egypt dyed, and the chyldren of Israel syghed by the reason of bondage, and cryed. 24 And their complaynt came vp vnto God from the bondage: and God heard their mone, and God remembred his couenaunt with Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob. 25 And God loked vpon the chyldren of Israel, and God had respecte vnto them. Exodus 2:18-25, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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