What answer did Jethro give when he asked to return to his brethren to Egypt?

He said, "Go in peace."

Whom did Moses take with him?

Moses took his wife and his sons.

What controversy had God with Moses? God met him and sought to kill him, because he had neglected to circumcise his children.

What did Zipporah to save her husband's life?

She took a knife and circumcised her son; and God let Moses escape.

Who are called the true circumcision?

Those who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.-Phil. iii. 3.

What did Zipporah say to Moses because of the circumcision?

A bloody husband art thou to me.

Why do worldly people think the service of God hard?

Because they have to deny themselves, and take up their cross, and follow Jesus.

What did Jesus say we were to do to the right hand or eye, if it made us sin?

"Pluck it out and cast it from thee: it is better to enter into life halt or maimed, than having two hands or two feet to be cast into hell fire."-Matt. xviii. 9.

What did he mean by that?

That in serving God we were not to care for or consider the pain of the flesh; Jesus says, he that looseth his life shall find it, and he that hateth his life shall keep it unto life eternal.

Where did God send Moses?

To speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel out of Egypt. What did Moses tell Aaron ?

All the words of the Lord, who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him to do.-Ex. iv. 28.

Of whom was Moses a type?

Of Jesus, who tells us of the things he has heard of God, and as God spoke to Aaron, and to Israel, through Moses, so does Jesus speak to us from God.

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What did Moses and Aaron?

They gathered all the elders of the children of Israel, and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

How did the people receive God's words? They believed, and when they heard that God had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, they bowed their heads, and worshipped.

CHAP. V.

What did Moses and Aaron say to Pharaoh, on going to him the first time?

Thus saith the Lord, let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

What answer did Pharaoh give?

Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

What do those always do, who know not the true God?

They despise and disobey his word.

What was the result of this visit to Pharaoh ?

It greatly increased the trials of Israel, for Pharaoh told the brick-masters to give them no more straw to make bricks, and to lay more work upon them, so the task-masters hasted them, saying, fulfil your daily works, as when there was straw.

Were they able to do this?

No. The officers of the children of Israel were beaten, for not bringing the usual number of bricks, and they complained to Pharaoh.

Did Pharaoh withdraw his command?

No. He only confirmed his command, saying, "ye are idle, ye are idle."

Who did they meet, in returning from Pharaoh ?

Moses and Aaron, to whom they told their case, saying, they had made them to be abhorred of Pharaoh and his servants, and hath put a sword in their hands to slay them? To whom did Moses speak?

He returned unto the Lord, and told him of Israel's trouble.

CHAP VI.

What answer did God give?

He said, I am Jehovah, and he renewed all the promises which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, concerning the land of Canaan; and he confirmed his promises of delivering his people from the Egyptians.

How does God comfort his people in their time of trial?

He renews to them his blessed promises, whereby they learn they have a land of rest, prepared for them, and that they soon will be delivered from all trial.

Did the children of Israel feel comforted, when Moses renewed these promises to them? No. They harkened not, for anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.

To what may the bondage of Egypt be compared ?

To that slavery of Satan, and of sin, in which all God's people are by nature.

What hinders people, when in this state, rejoicing in God's promises?