In chapter 26, just before she is about to marry Rochester, Jane learns of his mad wife and reflects on her feelings, saying, “My hopes were all dead—struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell all the first-born in the land of Egypt.” In EXODUS 11 : 1-10…
God’s Name
The third of the 10 Commandments of Moses, as recorded in EXODUS 20 : 7 is, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” The Pardoner preaches against “fals sweryng” by saying, “Bihold and se that in the firste table / Of heigh Goddes heestes honurable, / Hou that the seconde heeste of hym is this: / “Take nat my name in ydel or amys.”