Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus. Генри Райдер Хаггард

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       H. Rider Haggard

      Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664653666

Table of Contents

       MOON OF ISRAEL

       CHAPTER I

       SCRIBE ANA COMES TO TANIS

       CHAPTER II

       THE BREAKING OF THE CUP

       CHAPTER III

       USERTI

       CHAPTER IV

       THE COURT OF BETROTHAL

       CHAPTER V

       THE PROPHECY

       CHAPTER VI

       THE LAND OF GOSHEN

       CHAPTER VII

       THE AMBUSH

       CHAPTER VIII

       SETI COUNSELS PHARAOH

       CHAPTER IX

       THE SMITING OF AMON

       CHAPTER X

       THE DEATH OF PHARAOH

       CHAPTER XI

       THE CROWNING OF AMENMESES

       CHAPTER XII

       THE MESSAGE OF JABEZ

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE RED NILE

       CHAPTER XIV

       KI COMES TO MEMPHIS

       CHAPTER XV

       THE NIGHT OF FEAR

       CHAPTER XVI

       JABEZ SELLS HORSES

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE DREAM OF MERAPI

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE CROWNING OF MERAPI

MOON OF ISRAEL

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CHAPTER I

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SCRIBE ANA COMES TO TANIS

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      This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and as she was in the ancient time. I have written them before death takes me, that they may be buried with me in death, for as my spirit shall arise in the hour of resurrection, so also these my words may arise in their hour and tell to those who shall come after me upon the earth of what I knew upon the earth. Let it be as Those in heaven shall decree. At least I write and what I write is true.

      I tell of his divine Majesty whom I loved and love as my own soul, Seti Meneptah the second, whose day of birth was my day of birth, the Hawk who has flown to heaven before me; of Userti the Proud, his queen, she who afterwards married his divine Majesty, Saptah, whom I saw laid in her tomb at Thebes. I tell of Merapi, who was named Moon of Israel, and of her people, the Hebrews, who dwelt for long in Egypt and departed thence, having paid us back in loss and shame for all the good and ill we gave them. I tell of the war between the gods of Egypt and the god of Israel, and of much that befell therein.

      Also I, the King’s Companion, the great scribe, the beloved of the Pharaohs who have lived beneath the sun with me, tell of other men and matters. Behold! is it not written in this roll? Read, ye who shall find in the days unborn, if your gods have given you skill. Read, O children of the future, and learn the secrets of that past which to you is so far away and yet in truth so near.

      As it chanced, although the Prince Seti and I were born upon the same day and therefore, like the other mothers of gentle rank whose children saw the light upon that day, my mother received Pharaoh’s gift and I received the title of Royal Twin in Ra, never did I set eyes upon the