THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. &m 



Egypt Pihahiroth then is the mouth of the valley Badcah; 

 which opens to Hhoreth, the narrow fcripe of land where 

 mowers fall. 



Baal-Zephon, the God of the watch-tower, was, paroba* 

 bly, fome idol's temple, which ferved for. a fjgoal-houfe up- 

 on the Cape which forms the north entrance of the bay op* 

 pofite to Jibbel Attakah, where there is Hill a mofque, or 

 faint's tomb. It was probably a light-houfe, for the direc- 

 tion of mips going to the bottom of the Gulf, to prevent 

 miftaking it for another foul bay, under the high land$ 

 where there is alio a tomb of a faint called Abou Derage. 



The laft rebuke God gave to Pharaoh, by flaying ail the 

 firit-born, feems to have made a ilrong impreffion upon the 

 Egyptians. Scripture fays, that the people were now urgent 

 with the Ifraelites to be gone, for they faid, " We be all 

 dead men *." And we need not doubt; it was in order to 

 keep up in their hearts a motive of refentment, Itrong e- 

 nough to make them purfue the Ifraelites, that God caufed 

 the Ifraelites to borrow, and take away the jewels of the 

 Egyptians ; without fome new caufe of anger, the late ter- 

 rible challifement might have deterred them. While, there- 

 fore, they journeyed eastward towards the defert, the Egyp- 

 tians had no motive to attack thenij becaufe they went with 

 permiifion there to facriiice, and were on their return to 

 reftore them their moveables. But when the Ifraelites were 

 obferved turning to the fouth, among the mountains, they 

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Exod. ch. xii. 33, 



