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    "text": "When Israel was from Egypt freed,",
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    "text": "To enter Canaan soon they hoped;",
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    "text": "When the Red sea their passage stopp’d,",
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    "text": "The desert fill’d them with alarms",
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    "text": "They often murmur’d by the way,",
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    "text": "But were at length constrain’d to say,",
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    "text": "In the Red sea, that stopp’d them first,",
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    "text": "Their enemies were drown’d;",
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    "text": "The rocks gave water for their thirst,",
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    "text": "And manna spread the ground.",
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    "text": "By fire and cloud their way was shown",
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    "text": "Across the pathless sands;",
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    "text": "And Amalek was overthrown",
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    "text": "By Moses’ lifted hands.",
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    "text": "The way was right their hearts to prove,",
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    "text": "To make God’s glory known,",
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    "text": "And show his wisdom, pow’r, and love,",
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    "text": "Just so the true believer’s path",
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    "text": "Through many dangers lies;",
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    "text": "Though dark to sense, ’tis light to faith,",
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    "text": "And leads us to the skies.",
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