THE EXODUS

Pharaoh and the Egyptians let their dead lie unburied,
while they hastened to help the Israelites load their possessions
on wagons, to get them out of the land with as little
delay as possible. When they left, they took with them, beside
their own cattle, the sheep and the oxen that Pharaoh
had ordered his nobles to give them as presents. The king
also forced his magnates to beg pardon of the Israelites for
all they had suffered, knowing as he did that God forgives
an injury done by man to his fellow only after the wrong-
doer has recovered the good-will of his victim by confessing
and regretting his fault.[230] "Now, depart!" said Pharaoh
to the Israelites, "I want nothing from you but that you
should pray to God for me, that I may be saved from