Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	aaron_n	blood_n	frog_n	145	3	10.9204	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36161	A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.; Dictionarium antiquitatum Romanarum et Graecarum. English	Danet, Pierre, ca. 1650-1709.	1700 (1700)	Wing D171; ESTC R14021	1,057,883	623

Stuttering but God to confirm him in it gave him the Signs of a Rod's being turned into a Serpent and then re-assuming its former Shape and of his Hand turning Leprous and in a moment being restored to its natural Colour Then he went to see for Pharaob whom he charged from God to let his People go Three Days Journey into the Wilderness to offer Sacrifices unto him But he refused to obey and to let she Hebrews go notwithstanding all the Wonders performed by Moses in his Presence for he saw the Rod which Aaron Moses his Brother had in his Hand turned into a Serpent the Waters of the Nile and all the Springs in Egypt changed into Blood an innumerable Company of Frogs which covered the Face of the Land and entred into his very Palace and the Dust turned into Lice which filled the Air and extreamly tormented both Men and Beasts There came Swarms of large Flyes thither which destroyed whatever they touch'd a suddain Pestilence killed all the Cattle of Egypt without hurting those of the Israelites Men and Beasts were struck with terrible Boils a Storm of Hail accompanied with Thunder and Lightning fell over all Egypt which destroy'd all sorts of Beasts and Men that were in the Fields no other Land being spared but that of Goshen this Storm was succeeded by the largest Locusts that ever were seen in Egypt which destroyed all the Grass Fruits and Harvest A thick Darkness covered the whole Land saving that Part where the Children of Israel dwelt in short a destroying Angel having killed all the First-born of the Egyptians without sparing Pharaoh's own Son the Egyptians pressed the Israelites to go out of their Country and to sacrifice to their God under the Conduct of Moses and his Brother Aaron The Rabies assure us that the Wonders performed by Moses formerly in Egypt and elsewhere were done by means of his Rod which according to what they say was created by God between the Two Vespers of the Sabbath that is on the Evening of the Sixth Day of the World's Creation and upon which in an wonderful Manner the holy great and glorious Name of God was inscribed which they call Tetragrammaton wherefore it s said in the Zoar upon Exodus which is a Commentary upon the Five Books of Moses that the Miracles were graven thereon and that the most holy Name of God was also inscribed and Jonathan the Son of Vziel in his Targum that is in his Paraphrase upon Exodus relates the same Thing these are his Words Rehuel who was Jethro himself or his Father as Rabbi Jonathan seems to take him to be in his 18th Chapter having understood that Moses had made his Escape from Pharaoh put him into a deep Ditch where Sephora his Grand-Daughter fed him for 20 Years after which he took him out thence Moses going one Day into Rehuel's Garden went to Prayers and gave God Thanks for defending and delivering him by his own Power and for having wrought divers Miracles for his sake And perceiving in the said Garden a Rod or Staff which God had created between Sun and Sun that is on the Eve of the Sabbath or 6th Day of the Creation of the World whereon the great and glorious Name of God was graved and by Vertue of which he was one Day to perform great Miracles in Egypt to divide the Red-sea and to strike Water out of the Rock he presently put forth his Hand plucked it from the Earth into which it had been driven and as it were planted got it and carried it away with him The Sentiments of the Author of this Paraphrase are confirmed from what may be read concerning Aaron's Rod in the Pirke Eliezer which is a Book containing the History of the World to the Time of Gamaliel and from the Schaiseleth Hakabala which is another History-book or Chronology from the Beginning of the World But this may be more particularly seen in a very ancient and scarce Commentary entituled Medrasch Vaioscha printed at Constantinople which clears up what is related in the Chaldee Paraphrase and other Authors whereof I have spoken for Moses is there represented giving an Account at large of his Life after this manner When I went out of Egypt I was about 40 Years old and being one Day near unto the Water-pits Sephora who was one of Jeyhro's Daughters came thither and finding her to be modest and very handsom I told her if she pleased I would marry her her Answer consisted of an Account she gave me how her Father used such as sought any of his Daughters in Marriage which was to carry them to a Tree that was planted in the midst of his Graden that had so sad and peculiar a Quality that it presently struck such as came near it dead which when I understood I asked from whence the said Tree was brought she answered That God on the very Eve of the first Sabbath after the Creation of the World created a Rod which he gave to Adam Adam left it to Enoch Enoch to Noah Noah to Sem Sem to Abraham Abraham to Isaac Isaac to Jacob Jacob carried it into Egypt and gave it his Son Joseph after whose Death the Egyptians risted his House and finding the said Rod among the Spoils they carried it to Pharaoh's Court and Jethro who was one of the principal Magistrates of Egypt no sooner saw it but he was desirous to have it and having stole it away carried it to his own House The great Name of God Tetragrammaton was graven thereon with the Explications of it and the Ten Plagues wherewith God afflicted Egypt and as 't was all full of Wonders the same was kept in Jethro's House my Father-in-Law till that going on a Time into his Garden and holding the Rod in his Hand he stuck it in the Ground and endeavouring soon after to pull it out he found it had taken Root that it blossomed and that besides the Flowers it bore also bitter Almonds He left it there and by the Means of this Rod which grew to be a Tree he tried all such as had a Design to marry his Daughters When I was informed of all these Particulars and found the Shepherds would not let Jethro's Daughters draw Water I delivered Sephora and her Sister from the Hands of those rude Fellows took some Water and gave it their Cattle to drink after which they went towards their Father's House and I accompanied them Being come to the House they went in and I staid at the Door and as they were come back that Day sooner than ordinary Jethro asked them the Reason of it they answered That a courteous Egyptian had saved them from the Outrages of the Shepherds When the Daughters had thus acquainted their Father with the Adventure and told him that he who had delivered them was an Egyptian he asked them if they had not return'd him Thanks for his Kindness and bid them call me saying make him come in and let him dine with us