THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III
BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE EXODUS TO
THE DEATH OF MOSES

BY LOUIS GINZBERG




TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY
PAUL RADIN

REVISER AND PROOF-READER OF VOLUME III, DOCTOR
ISAAC HUSIK




To MY MOTHER
ON THE OCCASION OF HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY

PREFACE

"When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a People
of strange language, Jacob was His sanctuary and Israel His
dominion. Jewish legend attempts to describe how God's
sanctuary, the religion of Israel and His dominion, the beginnings
of Israel as a nation, arose in the time between the Exodus from
Egypt and the entrance into the Holy Land.