earth, and swallow them up, and all that pertaineth unto them, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the Lord.” And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking these words, that the ground clave asunder under them; and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah. And there came out fire from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. Then the congregation murmured against Moses, saying, “Ye have killed the people of the Lord.” And the Lord was angry with the children of Israel, and smote them with a plague; which, however, was stayed by the intercession of Aaron. The Brazen Serpent. [Illustration] Numbers xxi. 6. The children of Israel being obliged to take a longer journey than they expected before they were permitted to enter the promised land, murmured against the Lord and against Moses. Then the Lord in his anger sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit them; and much people of Israel died. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, “Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. The children of Israel continued their journey towards the promised land; none of them, however, who had left the land of Egypt, save Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, were permitted to enter it, for having sinned so often against the Lord. Even Moses the servant of the Lord, though permitted to see it from the top of Mount Nebo, was not permitted to enter; but died in the land of Moab, when he was an hundred and twenty years of age. And the children of Israel wept for Moses thirty days. FINIS. THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH & HIS BRETHREN, EMBELLISHED WITH CUTS; TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE LIFE, JOURNEYINGS, AND DEATH OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. [Illustration] GLASGOW: PRINTED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS. JOSEPH’S FIRST DREAM. [Illustration] In Canaan lived a man of righteousness, Whom the great God in love was pleas’d to bless With twelve sweet sons, one Joseph called by name. Whose worthiness we’ll to the world proclaim. Being endued with blessings from above, He gained the favour of his father’s love, Now while his brothers hated him, behold! He dream’d a dream, which unto them he told; Saying, “As we were binding in the field Our sheaves of wheat, it was to me revealed That mine arose upright, and yours around, Stood making low obedience to the ground.” These words of his, they did anger breed; They say, must you reign over us indeed? The like of this was never known before, Thus for his dreams they hated him the more.