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Title: Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, D(aniel) L(ong), 1841- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mount Morris, Ill., The Brethren's publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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title) of my master, saying: Give corn to the Egyptiansoldiers, and to the Hebrews who polish stones for the con-struction of the great storehouse in the City Rameses. Another letter, written by the scribe Keniamami, telh ofthe Hebrews quarrying stones for a building on the southside of Memphis. Of these letters Miss Edwards, in her excellent workon Egypt, says: They bring home to us with startlingnearness the events and actors of the Bible narrative. Wesee the toilers at their tasks, and the overseers conferring*with the directors of public works. They extract from thequarry those huge blocks which are our wonder to-day.Harnessed to huge sledges, they drag them to theriver-side and embark them for transport to the oppositebank. Some are so heavy that it takes a month to getthem down from the mountain to the landing-place.Other laborers elsewhere are making bricks, diggingcanals, helping to build the great wall which reached fromPelusium to Heliopolis, and strengthened the defenses of
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WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 371 not only Rameses and Pithom, but of a)! the cities andports of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, Their lot ishard, but not harder than the lot of other workmen. Theyare well fed. They intermarry. They increase and multi-ply. The season of the great oppression is not yet come.They make bricks, it is true, and those who are thus em-ployed must supply a certain number daily, but straw isnot yet withheld, and the task, though perhaps excessive,is not impossible. But the day of oppression was close upon them.Rameses, alarmed at the rapid growth of the Israelites,took measures to retard their increase. And they madetheir lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and inbrick, and in all manner of service in the field: all theirservice, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.And then, as we have already seen, came still harder tasks.The straw used in making brick was withheld, and yet thefull number was required. So the people were scatteredabroad throu

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