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and that Thy people might pass a miraculous way, but they might find a strange death.
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For the whole creation 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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For a cloud shadowed 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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through which all the people went that were defended with Thy hand, seeing Thy marvelous strange wonders.
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For they went at large like horses and leaped like lambs, praising Thee, O Lord, who had 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 kind of fowls when, being led by 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 not upon the sinners 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 behavior 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, who had deserved goodness from them.
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And not only so, but perhaps some respect shall be had for those, because they used strangers not friendly;