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For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened, that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments:
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And that thy people might pass a wonderful way: but they might find a strange death.
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For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt:
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As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:
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Where through all the people went that were defended with thy hand, seeing thy marvellous strange wonders.
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For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
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For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
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But afterwards they saw a new generation of fowls, when, being led with their appetite, they asked delicate meats.
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For quails came up unto them from the sea for their contentment.
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And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.
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For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.