Rise ye, get ye forth from my people, lest your god smite us, and we be all dead men. (_He passes out followed by_ SOLDIERS _carrying litter._) MOSES (_to_ CHILDREN OF ISRAEL _or_ CLASS): Ho, men of Israel! (_They stand._) Pharaoh commands, "Cease ye the burden of Egypt!" CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (_shout_): To God the glory! (_They rush into aisle._) AARON: Assemble ye your wives and little ones, your camels and your asses. God leads us to a land of milk and honey. On now to Canaan, to the promised land! CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (_shout_): The promised land! (AARON _leads; the_ CHILDREN OF ISRAEL _follow;_ MOSES _brings up the rear. They march toward the back of the room singing._) _Song_: "The Promised Land," by Unknown Author (_Adapted_). [Song: 1. Up, up from E-gypt to the promised land! Up, up from E-gypt to the promised land! Where our God shall lead us, we will go. O hasten to the promised land! CHORUS I'll a-way, I'll a-way to the promised land! I'll a-way, I'll a-way to the promised land! Where our God shall lead us, we will go. O hasten to the promised land! ] (_The Egyptians watch with interest._) FIRST EGYPTIAN: A mighty army! SECOND EGYPTIAN: Six hundred thousand strong! THIRD EGYPTIAN: Pharaoh will rue the day when he let these slaves escape from the land of Egypt. FIRST EGYPTIAN: There he cometh in mad haste. (PHARAOH _enters followed by_ PAGE _and_ SOLDIERS.) PHARAOH: Lo, it repents me that I have let Israel go. Let my soldiers go after them and scourge them back. On the Red Sea shore we will come up with them. On, my men, on! (PHARAOH, _the_ EGYPTIANS _and_ SOLDIERS _rush down aisle after the_ CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. _They, in the meantime, have made the circuit of the room, or church, and re-enter the stage, or chancel, singing._) _Song:_ Same Music as before. "Flowing with honey is the promised land; Flowing with honey is the promised land. Where our God shall lead us, we will go. O hasten to the promised land!" _Chorus:_ As before. AARON: Men of Israel, before us stretches the Red Sea water; here we will make our camp. MIRIAM (_clutching his arm_): O Aaron, look! Behind us see the shining spears! Behind us cometh Pharaoh and his hosts. Where now is Moses? AN ISRAELITE: And before, stretches the Red Sea water. How may we cross? Where now is Moses? ANOTHER ISRAELITE: We shall be brought to Egypt again as slaves. Where now is Moses? (MOSES _pushes his way through the people._) AARON AND OTHERS: O Moses, why hast thou thus dealt with us? ANOTHER ISRAELITE: It were better for us to serve in the land of Egypt, than that we die here in the wilderness. MOSES: Fear ye not. Stand still and see the salvation of your God. For the Egyptians which ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them no more forever. (_He stretches out his rod._)