God bad Moses number
His folk who were first preserved from death
Either twenty winters or more old,
Who in Egypt were not before numbered.
4096 All others were driven in death's web. 4106-8 Leave thou not thy folk
helpless, and do thou, O God, cause them to be governed just as it may be
advantageous for them.
P. 117. l. 4110 _loder-man_. See note on l. 3723.
4119-22
Whilst to him lasted life-days,
Them he taught precious laws,
And written hath committed them to them,
Unless they them keep, on them shall be sorrow (misfortune shall befall
them).
In line 4121 the first _hem_ should be omitted.
P. 118. l. 4143-4 Idolatry, that was pleasing to them, oft out-wrought
(effected) for them sorrow's trouble, i. e. brought sorrow and trouble upon
them.
4159-60
In such virtues grant us to come;
Through which we shall be to _everlasting_ life taken.
[396] See "The History of Our Lord," vol. i. p. 53.
[397] The Northumbrian version reads _gedroefed_, from which the O.E. vb.
_drove_.
[398] Written _leasowe_.