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Excerpt from The Flight of the Hebrews, Told for Young Readers The events treated in this volume are among the most dramatic and interesting in the history of the world. The unity of the book consists in following the movements of the Hebrew race from the days of Abraham until the conquest of Canaan and the settle ment of the children of Israel in that land. The sig nificance of the title, The Flight of the Hebrews, is in the fact of the almost constant movements of that people from place to place, until they came into pos session of the promised land. The thought of a whole race in motion, in search of a home, an abiding-place, is in itself impressive. The grouping of events about this central thought will, it is hoped, give young read ers a vivid realization of the beginnings of the great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.