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When the families of the sons of Jacob came into Egypt from Canaan, they numbered seventy souls. Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. During the life-time of Joseph, and for some time afterwards, the Hebrews were treated with kindness as the descendants of the brethren of Zephnathpaaneah. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. So we are told—a new

The Bay of the Buluches.

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bulrushes, but as that babe was a boy, the name we have given him is not incorrect.

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king-but we are not informed whether he was a descendant of that kind-hearted king who acted so wisely on the advice of Joseph, or whether he was some conquering usurper of the throne. On the face of the matter one might be inclined to suppose that he was some powerful chieftain who had seized the throne, and finding these Hebrews so numerous, was alarmed lest they should join his enemies in opposing him. But whether a legitimate king or an usurper, he was a cruel, hard-hearted tyrant.

Egypt, at this time, was one of the greatest nations of the earth-if not the greatest. Its most ancient name was Mizraim, or Misr, from the son of Ham, whose descendants settled along the banks of its great river after the deluge; Misr is its name among the Egyptians until this day. In scripture it is sometimes called Pathros, or the land of the south; and Rahab, or a sea monster, in allusion to the crocodiles with which its river is infested.

That Mizraim was one of the first places in which men were gathered into a nation after the great flood, is not only stated in the earliest historical records, but her mighty architectural ruins, with hieroglyphics crusted, and stamped with the most remote antiquity, bear witness to this day; standing as they yet do in solitary grandeur on the banks of her far-famed river, or gathered as specimens in the national museums of Europe, to which they have been transported -all bearing their silent but solemn testimony to the truth of the Bible.

But it was under the energetic and wise government of Joseph, the son of Jacob, that Egypt rose to a higher position of wealth, and power, and influence, than she had ever reached. The riches of the world were poured into her treasuries during the years of famine, and her sovereign had acquired possessions and wealth such as none of his predecessors had enjoyed. Such a nation, and such a throne, presented a