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* The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
The people of Israel lived on a very fertile land, yielding two harvests a year, and possessed large flocks; they excited by their sins the wrath of God.
Who inflicted on them a terrible punishment, taking away their land, their flocks and their possessions. Israel was reduced to slavery by the powerful and rich Pharaohs who then reigned in Egypt.
The latter had made slaves of the Israelites and treated them worse than beasts, overloading them with heavy and difficult work and putting them in irons and covering their bodies with wounds and scars, denying them sufficient food and shelter.
This was in order to keep them in a state of continual fear and deprive them of all resemblance to human beings.
And in this great calamity the people of Israel, remembering their heavenly Protector, prayed and implored His grace and pity.
An illustrious Pharaoh reigned in Egypt at this time who rendered himself famous by his numerous victories and riches which he had accumulated and the large palaces which his slaves had erected with their own hands.
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This Pharaoh had two sons, the younger of whom was called Mossa; the wise men of Israel taught him different sciences.
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