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subtilty of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the
Egyptians' success, when they had before despaired of recovering their
liberty, and to be the occasion of the great danger the Ethiopians were
in, when they had before boasted of their great achievements, she fell
deeply in love with him; and upon the prevalancy of that passion, sent
to him the most faithful of all her servants to discourse with him about
their marriage. He thereupon accepted the offer, on condition she would
procure the delivering up of the city; and gave her the assurance of an
oath to take her to his wife; and that when he had once taken possession
of the city, he would not break his oath to her. No sooner was the
agreement made, but it took effect immediately; and when Moses had cut
off the Ethiopians, he gave thanks to God, and consummated his marriage,
and led the Egyptians back to their own land.

CHAPTER 11. How Moses Fled Out Of Egypt Into Midian.

1. Now the Egyptians, after they had been preserved by Moses,
entertained a hatred to him, and were very eager in compassing their
designs against him, as suspecting that he would take occasion, from his
good success, to raise a sedition, and bring innovations into Egypt; and
told the king he ought to be slain. The king had also some intentions
of himself to the same purpose, and this as well out of envy at his
glorious expedition at the head of his army, as out of fear of being
brought low by him and being instigated by the sacred scribes, he was
ready to undertake to kill Moses: but when he had learned beforehand
what plots there were against him, he went away privately; and because
the public roads were watched, he took his flight through the deserts,
and where his enemies could not suspect he would travel; and, though
he was destitute of food, he went on, and despised that difficulty
courageously; and when he came to the city Midian, which lay upon the
Red Sea, and was so denominated from one of Abraham's sons by Keturah,
he sat upon a certain well, and rested himself there after his laborious
journey, and the affliction he had been in. It was not far from the
city, and the time of the day was noon, where he had an occasion offered
him by the custom of the country of doing what recommended his virtue,
and afforded him an opportunity of bettering his circumstances.

2. For that country having but little water, the shepherds used to seize
on the wells before others