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67 people from an alien neighboring power, meant well, but his cruel and oppressive policy in the end led to defeat and ruin in the waters of the Red Sea. Goshen was (Gen. xlvii. 6) and still is the most fertile tract in Egypt. It is now known as Es-Shurkiveh. The new King, first of a new dynasty possibly, did not wish to lose an industrious race of vassals, but he meant to keep them down and keep them under control. Hence the tasks imposed upon them, after the fashion of the time. And here it may be mentioned that much study is now being given to Egypt by learned men. In fact, a science is growing up called Egyptology. The proofs of the truth of the Bible thus given are many and wonderful. An inscription, for example, believed by scholars to point to the twenty-second year of this Pharaoh, shows him rebuilding temples and storehouses, and employing foreigners for the doing of the work. Two cities particularly are mentioned in Scripture, the names of which stand on Egyp-