ould remain, because they fought against the Hebrews, and this when
they were in the wilderness, and in their distress also. Moreover, he
refreshed the army with feasting. And thus did they fight this first
battle with those that ventured to oppose them, after they were gone out
of Egypt. But when Moses had celebrated this festival for the victory,
he permitted the Hebrews to rest for a few days, and then he brought
them out after the fight, in order of battle; for they had now many
soldiers in light armor. And going gradually on, he came to Mount Sinai,
in three months' time after they were removed out of Egypt; at which
mountain, as we have before related, the vision of the bush, and the
other wonderful appearances, had happened.

CHAPTER 3. That Moses Kindly Received-His Father-In-Law, Jethro, When He
Came To Him To Mount Sinai.

Now when Raguel, Moses's father-in-law, understood in what a prosperous
condition his affairs were, he willingly came to meet him. And Moses
and his children, and pleased himself with his coming. And when he had
offered sacrifice, he made a feast for the multitude, near the Bush
he had formerly seen; which multitude, every one according to their
families, partook of the feast. But Aaron and his family took Raguel,
and sung hymns to God, as to Him who had been the author procurer of
their deliverance and their freedom. They also praised their conductor,
as him by whose virtue it was that all things had succeeded with them.
Raguel also, in his eucharistical oration to Moses, made great encomiums
upon the whole multitude; and he could not but admire Moses for his
fortitude, and that humanity he had shewn in the delivery of his
friends.

CHAPTER 4. How Raguel Suggested To Moses To Set His People In Order,
Under Their Rulers Of Thousands, And Rulers Of Hundreds, Who Lived
Without Order Before; And How Moses Complied In All Things With His
Father-In-Law's Admonition.

1. The next day, as Raguel saw Moses in the of a crowd of business for
he determined the differences of those that referred them to him, every
one still going to him, and supposing that they should then only obtain
justice, if he were the arbitrator; and those that lost their causes
thought it no harm, while they thought they lost them justly, and not
by partiality. Raguel however said nothing to him at that time, as not
desirous to be any hinderance to such as had a mind to make use of the
virtue of their conduct