/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //#16 // /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// var username = "student"; var title="MOSES FLEES EGYPT"; var title2=" #16 Exodus 2"; Text=new Array(20); aposstr=new String; speechstr=new String; aposstr="'"; speechstr='"'; for (var x=0; x<21;x++) { Text[x]=""; } var max=18; // *** POSITIONING AND STYLES ********************************************* Text[0]=" 1. When Moses was four or five years old, his mother brought him to the princess of Egypt as she had promised."; Text[1]=" 2. As the son of the princess Moses received a very fine education at the palace of Pharaoh."; Text[2]=" 3. Moses lived at the royal palace and learned the ways of the royal court."; Text[3]=" 4. In the meantime, the children of Israel were forced by Pharaoh to work very hard. They made bricks for building cities, palaces and warehouses."; Text[4]=" 5. Moses saw how Pharaoh and the Egyptians were mistreating the children of Israel. He felt very sorry for them. He never forgot that he too was a Israelite."; Text[5]=" 6. One day Moses saw an Egyptian beating one of the Israelites."; Text[6]=" 7. Moses killed the Egyptian and quickly buried him in the sand. Moses thought that no one had seen him."; Text[7]=" 8. The next day Moses saw two Israelites fighting with one another. "+speechstr+"Why do you hit him?"+speechstr+" Moses asked the guilty man. He answered, "+speechstr+"Will you also kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?"+speechstr+""; Text[8]=" 9. Moses now knew that his secret was known. He was afraid that Pharaoh would find out that he had killed an Egyptian."; Text[9]=" 10. Pharaoh did find out and ordered his men to arrest Moses and to execute him."; Text[10]=" 11. Moses fled from Egypt into the wilderness of Sinai to the land of Midian."; Text[11]=" 12. Here he came to a well and sat down to rest."; Text[12]=" 13. As he sat there, several girls came with their flock of sheep and drew water for them from the well."; Text[13]=" 14. Other shepherds came and tried to drive the girls and their sheep away."; Text[14]=" 15. Moses helped the girls. He drew water from the well for their flock of sheep."; Text[15]=" 16. When the girls got home they told their father Jethro what Moses had done. He invited Moses to be his guest."; Text[16]=" 17. Later, Moses married Jethro"+aposstr+"s daughter Zipporah. They had a son who was named Gershom because Moses said, "+speechstr+"I have been a stranger in a strange land."+speechstr+""; Text[17]=" 18. Moses had found a new home in the land of Midian, far away from where he had been born and raised."; //**DO NOT EDIT THIS ***** //*********************** //************************