and the children he had by her, Gersom and Eleazer,
and made haste into Egypt. Now the former of those names, Gersom, in
the Hebrew tongue, signifies that he was in a strange land; and Eleazer,
that, by the assistance of the God of his fathers, he had escaped from
the Egyptians. Now when they were near the borders, Aaron his brother,
by the command of God, met him, to whom he declared what had befallen
him at the mountain, and the commands that God had given him. But as
they were going forward, the chief men among the Hebrews, having learned
that they were coming, met them: to whom Moses declared the signs he had
seen; and while they could not believe them, he made them see them, So
they took courage at these surprising and unexpected sights, and hoped
well of their entire deliverance, as believing now that God took care of
their preservation.

2. Since then Moses found that the Hebrews would be obedient to
whatsoever he should direct, as they promised to be, and were in love
with liberty, he came to the king, who had indeed but lately received
the government, and told him how much he had done for the good of the
Egyptians, when they were despised by the Ethiopians, and their country
laid waste by them; and how he had been the commander of their forces,
and had labored for them, as if they had been his own people and he
informed him in what danger he had been during that expedition, without
having any proper returns made him as he had deserved. He also informed
him distinctly what things happened to him at Mount Sinai; and what God
said to him; and the signs that were done by God, in order to assure
him of the authority of those commands which he had given him. He also
exhorted him not to disbelieve what he told him, nor to oppose the will
of God.

3. But when the king derided Moses; he made him in earnest see the signs
that were done at Mount Sinai. Yet was the king very angry with him
and called him an ill man, who had formerly run away from his Egyptian
slavery, and came now back with deceitful tricks, and wonders, and
magical arts, to astonish him. And when he had said this, he commanded
the priests to let him see the same wonderful sights; as knowing that
the Egyptians were skillful in this kind of learning, and that he was
not the only person who knew them, and pretended them to be divine; as
also he told him, that when he brought such wonderful sights before him,
he would only be believed by the unlearned. Now