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APPOINTMENT OF THE SEVENTY ELDERS ELDAD AND
MEDAD THE QUAIL AARON AND MIRIAM SLANDER MOSES
MIRIAM' PUNISHMENT THE SENDING OF THE SPIES
SIGNIFICANT NAMES THE SPIES IN PALESTINE THE

SLANDEROUS REPORT THE NIGHT OF TEARS INGRATITUDE
PUNISHED THE YEARS OF DISFAVOR 0HE REBELLION OF
KORAH KORAH ABUSES MOSES AND THE TORAH MOSES
PLEADS IN VAIN WITH KORAH KORAH AND HIS HORDE
PUNISHED ON AND THE THE THREE SONS OF KORAH SAVED
ISRAEL CONVINCED OF AARON'S PRIESTHOOD THE WATERS
OF MERIBAH MOSES ANGER CAUSES HIS DOOM EDOM'S
UNBROTHHERLY ATTITUDE. TOWARD ISRAEL THE THREE
SHEPHERDS PREPARING AARON FOR IMPENDING DEATH
AARON'S DEATH THE GENERAL MOURNING FOR AARON
THE FAI.SE FRIENDS THE BRAZEN SERPENT AT ARNON
SIHON, THE KING OF THE AMORITFS THE GIANT OG MOSES
SPEECH OF ADMONITION BALAK, KING OF MOAB BALAAM,
THE HEATHEN PROPHET BALAK'S MESSENGERS TO
BALAAM BALAAM ACCEPTS BALAK'S INVITATION
BALAAM'S ASS BALAAM RUNS INTO HIS OWN
DESTRUCTION BALAAM WITH BALAK BALAAM'S
SACRIFICES REFUSED BALAAM EXTOLS ISRAEL BALAAM'S
HOPES DISAPPOINTED CURSES TURNED TO BLESSINGS
BALAAM'S WICKED COUNSEL PHINEHAS, ZEALOUS FOR
GOD TWELVE MIRACLES PHINEHAS REWARDED THE
DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD THE APPOINTMENT OF
JOSHUA MOSES' LEGACY TO JOSHUA MOSES LAST
CAMPAIGN TIlE COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF MIDIAN THE
GRUSOME END OF BALAAM THE VICTORIOUS RETURN
FROM TIlE WAR WEALTH THAT BRINGETH DESTRUCTION
MOSES' DEATH IRREVOCABLY DOOMED MOSES PRAYER
FOR SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT GOD TRIES TO COMFORT
MOSES CONCERING HIS DEATH THE INTERCESSIONS FOR
MOSES MOSES SERVES JOSHUA THE LAST DAY OF MOSES'
LIFE MOSES BEHOLDS THE FUTURE MOSES MEETS THE
MESSIAH IN HEAVEN THE LAST HOURS OF MOSES THE
BLESSING OF MOSES MOSES PRAYS FOR DEATH SAMAEL
CHASTISED BY MOSES GOD KISSES MOSES' SOUL THE
MOURNING FOR MOSES SAMAEL'S VAIN SEARCH MOSES
EXCELS ALL PIOUS MEN
The Legends of the Jews Volume III Bible Times and Characters from

the Exodus to the Death of Moses
THE LONG ROUTE
The exodus would have been impossible if Joseph's bones had
remained behind. Therefore Moses made it his concern to seek their
resting-place, while the people had but the one thought of gathering in
the treasures of the Egyptians. [1] But it was not an easy matter to find
Joseph's body. Moses knew that he had been interred in the mausoleum
of the Egyptian kings, but there were so many other bodies there that it
was impossible to identify it. Moses' mother Jochebed came to his aid.
She led him to the very spot where Joseph's bones lay. As soon as he
came near them, he knew them to be what he was seeking, by the
fragrance they exhaled and spread around. [2] But his difficulties were
not at an end. The question arose, how he was to secure possession of
the remains. Joseph's coffin had been sunk far down into the ground,
and he knew not how to raise it from the depths. Standing at the edge of
the grave, he spoke these words. "Joseph, the time hath come whereof
thou didst say, 'God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my
bones from hence.'" No sooner had this reminder dropped from his lips
than the coffin stirred and rose to the surface.
And even yet the difficulties in Moses' way were not removed wholly.
The Egyptian magicians had stationed two golden dogs at Joseph's
coffin, to keep watch,. and they barked vehemently if anyone ventured
close to it. The noise they made was so loud it could be heard
throughout the land, from end to end, a distance equal to a forty day's
journey. When Moses came near the coffin, the dogs emitted their
warning sound, but he silenced them at once with words, "Come, ye
people, and behold the miracle! The real, live dogs did not bark, and
these counterfeit dogs produced by magic attempt it!" [3] What he said
about real, live dogs and their refraining from barking had reference to
the fact that the dogs of the Egyptians did not move their tongues
against any of the children of Israel, through they had barked all the
time the people were engaged in burying the bodies of their smitten
first-born. As a reward God gave the Israelites the law, to cast to the
dogs the flesh they themselves are forbidden to eat, for the Lord
withholds due recompense from none of His creatures. [4] Indeed, the
dogs received a double reward, for their excrements are used in tanning
the hides from which the Torah scrolls are made, as well as the

Mezuzot and the phylacteries. [5]
Joseph's coffin in the possession of Moses, the march of the Israelites
could begin. The Egyptians put no manner of obstacle in their way.
Pharaoh himself accompanied them, to make sure that they were
actually leaving the land, [6] and now he was so angry at his counselors
for having advised against letting the