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THE BOOK OF JASHER

THIS IS THE BOOK OF THE GENERATIONS OF MAN WHOM GOD CREATED UPON THE EARTH ON THE DAY WHEN THE LORD GOD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH.

Jasper Chapter 61

1. And it came to pass at that time Pharaoh king of Egypt commanded
all his people to make for him a strong palace in Egypt.
2. And he also commanded the sons of Jacob to assist the Egyptians in
the building, and the Egyptians made a beautiful and elegant palace
for a royal habitation, and he dwelt therein and he renewed his
government and he reigned securely.
3. And Zebulun the son of Jacob died in that year, that is the
seventy-second year of the going down of the Israelites to Egypt,
and Zebulun died a hundred and fourteen years old, and was put into
a coffin and given into the hands of his children.
4. And in the seventy-fifth year died his brother Simeon, he was a
hundred and twenty years old at his death, and he was also put into
a coffin and given into the hands of his children.
5. And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau, captain of the host
to Angeas king of Dinhabah, was still daily enticing Angeas to
prepare for battle to fight with the sons of Jacob in Egypt, and
Angeas was unwilling to do this thing, for his servants had related
to him all the might of the sons of Jacob, what they had done unto
them in their battle with the children of Esau.
6. And Zepho was in those days daily enticing Angeas to fight with the
sons of Jacob in those days.
7. And after some time Angeas hearkened to the words of Zepho and
consented to him to fight with the sons of Jacob in Egypt, and
Angeas got all his people in order, a people numerous as the sand
which is upon the sea shore, and he formed his resolution to go to
Egypt to battle.
8. And amongst the servants of Angeas was a youth fifteen years old,
Balaam the son of Beor was his name and the youth was very wise and
understood the art of witchcraft.
9. And Angeas said unto Balaam, Conjure for us, I pray thee, with the
witchcraft, that we may know who will prevail in this battle to
which we are now proceeding.
10. And Balaam ordered that they should bring him wax, and he made
thereof the likeness of chariots and horsemen representing the army
of Angeas and the army of Egypt, and he put them in the cunningly
prepared waters that he had for that purpose, and he took in his
hand the boughs of myrtle trees, and he exercised his cunning, and
he joined them over the water, and there appeared unto him in the
water the resembling images of the hosts of Angeas falling before
the resembling images of the Egyptians and the sons of Jacob.
11. And Balaam told this thing to Angeas, and Angeas despaired and did
not arm himself to go down to Egypt to battle, and he remained in
his city.
12. And when Zepho the son of Eliphaz saw that Angeas despaired of
going forth to battle with the Egyptians, Zepho fled from Angeas
from Africa, and he went and came unto Chittim.
13. And all the people of Chittim received him with great honor, and
they hired him to fight their battles all the days, and Zepho
became exceedingly rich in those days, and the troops of the king
of Africa still spread themselves in those days, and the children
of Chittim assembled and went to Mount Cuptizia on account of the
troops of Angeas king of Africa, who were advancing upon them.
14. And it was one day that Zepho lost a young heifer, and he went to
seek it, and he heard it lowing round about the mountain.
15. And Zepho went and he saw and behold there was a large cave at the
bottom of the mountain, and there was a great stone there at the
entrance of the cave, and Zepho split the stone and he came into
the cave and he looked and behold, a large animal was devouring the
ox; from the middle upward it resembled a man, and from the middle
downward it resembled an animal, and Zepho rose up against the
animal and slew it with his swords.
16. And the inhabitants of Chittim heard of this thing, and they
rejoiced exceedingly, and they said, What shall we do unto this man
who has slain this animal that devoured our cattle?
17. And they all assembled to consecrate one day in the year to him,
and they called the name thereof Zepho after his name, and they
brought unto him drink offerings year after year on that day, and
they brought unto him gifts.
18. At that time Jania the daughter of Uzu wife of king Angeas became
ill, and her illness was heavily felt by Angeas and his officers,
and Angeas said unto his wise men, What shall I do to Jania and how
shall I heal her from her illness? And his wise men said unto him,
Because the air of our country is not like the air of the land of
Chittim, and our water is not like their water, therefore from this
has the queen become ill.
19. For through the change of air and water she became ill, and also
because in her country she drank only the water which came from
Purmah, which her ancestors had brought up with bridges.
20. And Angeas commanded his servants, and they brought unto him in
vessels of the waters of Purmah belonging to Chittim, and they
weighed those waters with all the waters of the land of Africa, and
they found those waters lighter than the waters of Africa.
21. And Angeas saw this thing, and he commanded all his officers to
assemble the hewers of stone in thousands and tens of thousands,
and they hewed stone without number, and the builders came and they
built an exceedingly strong bridge, and they conveyed the spring of
water from the land of Chittim unto Africa, and those waters were
for Jania the queen and for all her concerns, to drink from and to
bake, wash and bathe therewith, and also to water therewith all
seed from which food can be obtained, and all fruit of the ground.
22. And the king commanded that they should bring of the soil of
Chittim in large ships, and they also brought stones to build
therewith, and the builders built palaces for Jania the queen, and
the queen became healed of her illness.
23. And at the revolution of the year the troops of Africa continued
coming to the land of Chittim to plunder as usual, and Zepho son of
Eliphaz heard their report, and he gave orders concerning them and
he fought with them, and they fled before him, and he delivered the
land of Chittim from them.
24. And the children of Chittim saw the valor of Zepho, and the
children of Chittim resolved and they made Zepho king over them,
and he became king over them, and whilst he reigned they went to
subdue the children of Tubal, and all the surrounding islands.
25. And their king Zepho went at their head and they made war with
Tubal and the islands, and they subdued them, and when they
returned from the battle they renewed his government for him, and
they built for him a very large palace for his royal habitation and
seat, and they made a large throne for him, and Zepho reigned over
the whole land of Chittim and over the land of Italia fifty years.

Jasper Chapter 62

1. In that year, being the seventy-ninth year of the Israelites going
down to Egypt, died Reuben the son of Jacob, in the land of Egypt;
Reuben was a hundred and twenty-five years old when he died, and
they put him into a coffin, and he was given into the hands of his
children.
2. And in the eightieth year died his brother Dan; he was a hundred
and twenty years at his death, and he was also put into a coffin
and given into the hands of his children.
3. And in that year died Chusham king of Edom, and after him reigned
Hadad the son of Bedad, for thirty-five years; and in the
eighty-first year died Issachar the son of Jacob, in Egypt, and
Issachar was a hundred and twenty-two years old at his death, and
he was put into a coffin in Egypt, and given into the hands of his
children.
4. And in the eighty-second year died Asher his brother, he was a
hundred and twenty-three years old at his death, and he was placed
in a coffin in Egypt, and given into the hands of his children.
5. And in the eighty-third year died Gad, he was a hundred and
twenty-five years old at his death, and he was put into a coffin in
Egypt, and given into the hands of his children.
6. And it came to pass in the eighty-fourth year, that is the fiftieth
year of the reign of Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, that Hadad
assembled all the children of Esau, and he got his whole army in
readiness, about four hundred thousand men, and he directed his way
to the land of Moab, and he went to fight with Moab and to make
them tributary to him.
7. And the children of Moab heard this thing, and they were very much
afraid, and they sent to the children of Midian to assist them in
fighting with Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom.
8. And Hadad came unto the land of Moab, and Moab and the children of
Midian went out to meet him, and they placed themselves in battle
array against him in the field of Moab.
9. And Hadad fought with Moab, and there fell of the children of Moab
and the children of Midian many slain ones, about two hundred
thousand men.
10. And the battle was very severe upon Moab, and when the children of
Moab saw that the battle was sore upon them, they weakened their
hands and turned their backs, and left the children of Midian to
carry on the battle.
11. And the children of Midian knew not the intentions of Moab, but
they strengthened themselves in battle and fought with Hadad and
all his host, and all Midian fell before him.
12. And Hadad smote all Midian with a heavy smiting, and he slew them
with the edge of the sword, he left none remaining of those who
came to assist Moab.
13. And when all the children of Midian had perished in battle, and the
children at Moab had escaped, Hadad made all Moab at that time
tributary to him, and they became under his hand, and they gave a
yearly tax as it was ordered, and Hadad turned and went back to his
land.
14. And at the revolution of the year, when the rest of the people of
Midian that were in the land heard that all their brethren had
fallen in battle with Hadad for the sake of Moab, because the
children of Moab had turned their backs in battle and left Midian
to fight, then five of the princes of Midian resolved with the rest
of their brethren who remained in their land, to fight with Moab to
avenge the cause of their brethren.
15. And the children of Midian sent to all their brethren the children
of the east, and all their brethren, all the children of Keturah
came to assist Midian to fight with Moab.
16. And the children of Moab heard this thing, and they were greatly
afraid that all the children of the east had assembled together
against them for battle, and they the children of Moab sent a
memorial to the land of Edom to Hadad the son of Bedad, saying,
17. Come now unto us and assist us and we will smite Midian, for they
all assembled together and have come against us with all their
brethren the children of the east to battle, to avenge the cause of
Midian that fell in battle.
18. And Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, went forth with his whole
army and went to the land of Moab to fight with Midian, and Midian
and the children of the east fought with Moab in the field of Moab,
and the battle was very fierce between them.
19. And Hadad smote all the children of Midian and the children of the
east with the edge of the sword, and Hadad at that time delivered
Moab from the hand of Midian, and those that remained of Midian and
of the children of the east fled before Hadad and his army, and
Hadad pursued them to their land, and smote them with a very heavy
slaughter, and the slain fell in the road.
20. And Hadad delivered Moab from the hand of Midian, for all the
children of Midian had fallen by the edge of the sword, and Hadad
turned and went back to his land.
21. And from that day forth, the children of Midian hated the children
of Moab, because they had fallen in battle for their sake, and
there was a great and mighty enmity between them all the days.
22. And all that were found of Midian in the road of the land of Moab
perished by the sword of Moab, and all that were found of Moab in
the road of the land of Midian, perished by the sword of Midian;
thus did Midian unto Moab and Moab unto Midian for many days.
23. And it came to pass at that time that Judah the son of Jacob died
in Egypt, in the eighty-sixth year of Jacob’s going down to Egypt,
and Judah was a hundred and twenty-nine years old at his death, and
they embalmed him and put him into a coffin, and he was given into
the hands of his children.
24. And in the eighty-ninth year died Naphtali, he was a hundred and
thirty-two years old, and he was put into a coffin and given into
the hands of his children.
25. And it came to pass in the ninety-first year of the Israelites
going down to Egypt, that is in the thirtieth year of the reign of
Zepho the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, over the children of
Chittim, the children of Africa came upon the children of Chittim
to plunder them as usual, but they had not come upon them for these
thirteen years.
26. And they came to them in that year, and Zepho the son of Eliphaz
went out to them with some of his men and smote them desperately,
and the troops of Africa fled from before Zepho and the slain fell
before him, and Zepho and his men pursued them, going on and
smiting them until they were near unto Africa.
27. And Angeas king of Africa heard the thing which Zepho had done, and
it vexed him exceedingly, and Angeas was afraid of Zepho all the
days.

Jasper Chapter 63

1. And in the ninety-third year died Levi, the son of Jacob, in Egypt,
and Levi was a hundred and thirty-seven years old when he died, and
they put him into a coffin and he was given into the hands of his
children.
2. And it came to pass after the death of Levi, when all Egypt saw
that the sons of Jacob the brethren of Joseph were dead, all the
Egyptians began to afflict the children of Jacob, and to embitter
their lives from that day unto the day of their going forth from
Egypt, and they took from their hands all the vineyards and fields
which Joseph had given unto them, and all the elegant houses in
which the people of Israel lived, and all the fat of Egypt, the
Egyptians took all from the sons of Jacob in those days.
3. And the hand of all Egypt became more grievous in those days
against the children of Israel, and the Egyptians injured the
Israelites until the children of Israel were wearied of their lives
on account of the Egyptians.
4. And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and second year
of Israel’s going down to Egypt, that Pharaoh king of Egypt died,
and Melol his son reigned in his stead, and all the mighty men of
Egypt and all that generation which knew Joseph and his brethren
died in those days.
5. And another generation rose up in their stead, which had not known
the sons of Jacob and all the good which they had done to them, and
all their might in Egypt.
6. Therefore all Egypt began from that day forth to embitter the lives
of the sons of Jacob, and to afflict them with all manner of hard
labor, because they had not known their ancestors who had delivered
them in the days of the famine.
7. And this was also from the Lord, for the children of Israel, to
benefit them in their latter days, in order that all the children
of Israel might know the Lord their God.
8. And in order to know the signs and mighty wonders which the Lord
would do in Egypt on account of his people Israel, in order that
the children of Israel might fear the Lord God of their ancestors,
and walk in all his ways, they and their seed after them all the
days.
9. Melol was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
ninety-four years, and all Egypt called his name Pharaoh after the
name of his father, as it was their custom to do to every king who
reigned over them in Egypt.
10. At that time all the troops of Angeas king of Africa went forth to
spread along the land of Chittim as usual for plunder.
11. And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau heard their report,
and he went forth to meet them with his army, and he fought them
there in the road.
12. And Zepho smote the troops of the king of Africa with the edge of
the sword, and left none remaining of them, and not even one
returned to his master in Africa.
13. And Angeas heard of this which Zepho the son of Eliphaz had done to
all his troops, that he had destroyed them, and Angeas assembled
all his troops, all the men of the land of Africa, a people
numerous like the sand by the sea shore.
14. And Angeas sent to Lucus his brother, saying, Come to me with all
thy men and help me to smite Zepho and all the children of Chittim
who have destroyed my men, and Lucus came with his whole army, a
very great force, to assist Angeas his brother to fight with Zepho
and the children of Chittim.
15. And Zepho and the children of Chittim heard this thing, and they
were greatly afraid and a great terror fell upon their hearts.
16. And Zepho also sent a letter to the land of Edom to Hadad the son
of Bedad king of Edom and to all the children of Esau, saying,
17. I have heard that Angeas king of Africa is coming to us with his
brother for battle against us, and we are greatly afraid of him,
for his army is very great, particularly as he comes against us
with his brother and his army likewise.
18. Now therefore come you also up with me and help me, and we will
fight together against Angeas and his brother Lucus, and you will
save us out of their hands, but if not, know ye that we shall all
die.
19. And the children of Esau sent a letter to the children of Chittim
and to Zepho their king, saying, We cannot fight against Angeas and
his people for a covenant of peace has been between us these many
years, from the days of Bela the first king, and from the days of
Joseph the son of Jacob king of Egypt, with whom we fought on the
other side of Jordan when he buried his father.
20. And when Zepho heard the words of his brethren the children of Esau
he refrained from them, and Zepho was greatly afraid of Angeas.
21. And Angeas and Lucus his brother arrayed all their forces, about
eight hundred thousand men, against the children of Chittim.
22. And all the children of Chittim said unto Zepho, Pray for us to the
God of thy ancestors, peradventure he may deliver us from the hand
of Angeas and his army, for we have heard that he is a great God
and that he delivers all who trust in him.
23. And Zepho heard their words, and Zepho sought the Lord and he said,
24. Lord God of Abraham and Isaac my ancestors, this day I know that
thou art a true God, and all the gods of the nations are vain and
useless.
25. Remember now this day unto me thy covenant with Abraham our father,
which our ancestors related unto us, and do graciously with me this
day for the sake of Abraham and Isaac our fathers, and save me and
the children of Chittim from the hand of the king of Africa who
comes against us for battle.
26. And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Zepho, and he had regard for
him on account of Abraham and Isaac, and the Lord delivered Zepho
and the children of Chittim from the hand of Angeas and his people.
27. And Zepho fought Angeas king of Africa and all his people on that
day, and the Lord gave all the people of Angeas into the hands of
the children of Chittim.
28. And the battle was severe upon Angeas, and Zepho smote all the men
of Angeas and Lucus his brother, with the edge of the sword, and
there fell from them unto the evening of that day about four
hundred thousand men.
29. And when Angeas saw that all his men perished, he sent a letter to
all the inhabitants of Africa to come to him, to assist him in the
battle, and he wrote in the letter, saying, All who are found in
Africa let them come unto me from ten years old and upward; let
them all come unto me, and behold if he comes not he shall die, and
all that he has, with his whole household, the king will take.
30. And all the rest of the inhabitants of Africa were terrified at the
words of Angeas, and there went out of the city about three hundred
thousand men and boys, from ten years upward, and they came to
Angeas.
31. And at the end of ten days Angeas renewed the battle against Zepho
and the children of Chittim, and the battle was very great and
strong between them.
32. And from the army of Angeas and Lucus, Zepho sent many of the
wounded unto his hand, about two thousand men, and Sosiphtar the
captain of the host of Angeas fell in that battle.
33. And when Sosiphtar had fallen, the African troops turned their
backs to flee, and they fled, and Angeas and Lucus his brother were
with them.
34. And Zepho and the children of Chittim pursued them, and they smote
them still heavily on the road, about two hundred men, and they
pursued Azdrubal the son of Angeas who had fled with his father,
and they smote twenty of his men in the road, and Azdrubal escaped
from the children of Chittim, and they did not slay him.
35. And Angeas and Lucus his brother fled with the rest of their men,
and they escaped and came into Africa with terror and
consternation, and Angeas feared all the days lest Zepho the son of
Eliphaz should go to war with him.

Jasper Chapter 64

1. And Balaam the son of Beor was at that time with Angeas in the
battle, and when he saw that Zepho prevailed over Angeas, he fled
from there and came to Chittim.
2. And Zepho and the children of Chittim received him with great
honor, for Zepho knew Balaam’s wisdom, and Zepho gave unto Balaam
many gifts and he remained with him.
3. And when Zepho had returned from the war, he commanded all the
children of Chittim to be numbered who had gone into battle with
him, and behold not one was missed.
4. And Zepho rejoiced at this thing, and he renewed his kingdom, and
he made a feast to all his subjects.
5. But Zepho remembered not the Lord and considered not that the Lord
had helped him in battle, and that he had delivered him and his
people from the hand of the king of Africa, but still walked in the
ways of the children of Chittim and the wicked children of Esau, to
serve other gods which his brethren the children of Esau had taught
him; it is therefore said, From the wicked goes forth wickedness.
6. And Zepho reigned over all the children of Chittim securely, but
knew not the Lord who had delivered him and all his people from the
hand of the king of Africa; and the troops of Africa came no more
to Chittim to plunder as usual, for they knew of the power of Zepho
who had smitten them all at the edge of the sword, so Angeas was
afraid of Zepho the son of Eliphaz, and of the children of Chittim
all the days.
7. At that time when Zepho had returned from the war, and when Zepho
had seen how he prevailed over all the people of Africa and had
smitten them in battle at the edge of the sword, then Zepho advised
with the children of Chittim, to go to Egypt to fight with the sons
of Jacob and with Pharaoh king of Egypt.
8. For Zepho heard that the mighty men of Egypt were dead and that
Joseph and his brethren the sons at Jacob were dead, and that all
their children the children of Israel remained in Egypt.
9. And Zepho considered to go to fight against them and all Egypt, to
avenge the cause of his brethren the children of Esau, whom Joseph
with his brethren and all Egypt had smitten in the land of Canaan,
when they went up to bury Jacob in Hebron.
10. And Zepho sent messengers to Hadad, son of Bedad, king of Edom, and
to all his brethren the children of Esau, saying,
11. Did you not say that you would not fight against the king of Africa
for he is a member of your covenant? behold I fought with him and
smote him and all his people.
12. Now therefore I have resolved to fight against Egypt and the
children of Jacob who are there, and I will be revenged of them for
what Joseph, his brethren and ancestors did to us in the land of
Canaan when they went up to bury their father in Hebron.
13. Now then if you are willing to come to me to assist me in fighting
against them and Egypt, then shall we avenge the cause of our
brethren.
14. And the children of Esau hearkened to the words of Zepho, and the
children of Esau gathered themselves together, a very great people,
and they went to assist Zepho and the children of Chittim in
battle.
15. And Zepho sent to all the children of the east and to all the
children of Ishmael with words like unto these, and they gathered
themselves and came to the assistance of Zepho and the children of
Chittim in the war upon Egypt.
16. And all these kings, the king of Edom and the children of the east,
and all the children of Ishmael, and Zepho the king of Chittim went
forth and arrayed all their hosts in Hebron.
17. And the camp was very heavy, extending in length a distance of
three days’ journey, a people numerous as the sand upon the sea
shore which can not be counted.
18. And all these kings and their hosts went down and came against all
Egypt in battle, and encamped together in the valley of Pathros.
19. And all Egypt heard their report, and they also gathered themselves
together, all the people of the land of Egypt, and of all the
cities belonging to Egypt, about three hundred thousand men.
20. And the men of Egypt sent also to the children of Israel who were
in those days in the land of Goshen, to come to them in order to go
and fight with these kings.
21. And the men of Israel assembled and were about one hundred and
fifty men, and they went into battle to assist the Egyptians.
22. And the men of Israel and of Egypt went forth, about three hundred
thousand men and one hundred and fifty men, and they went toward
these kings to battle, and they placed themselves from without the
land of Goshen opposite Pathros.
23. And the Egyptians believed not in Israel to go with them in their
camps together for battle, for all the Egyptians said, Perhaps the
children of Israel will deliver us into the hand of the children of
Esau and Ishmael, for they are their brethren.
24. And all the Egyptians said unto the children of Israel, Remain you
here together in your stand and we will go and fight against the
children of Esau and Ishmael, and if these kings should prevail
over us, then come you altogether upon them and assist us, and the
children of Israel did so.
25. And Zepho the son of Eliphaz the son of Esau king of Chittim, and
Hadad the son of Bedad king of Edom, and all their camps, and all
the children of the east, and children of Ishmael, a people
numerous as sand, encamped together in the valley of Pathros
opposite Tachpanches.
26. And Balaam the son of Beor the Syrian was there in the camp of
Zepho, for he came with the children of Chittim to the battle, and
Balaam was a man highly honored in the eyes of Zepho and his men.
27. And Zepho said unto Balaam, Try by divination for us that we may
know who will prevail in the battle, we or the Egyptians.
28. And Balaam rose up and tried the art of divination, and he was
skillful in the knowledge of it, but he was confused and the work
was destroyed in his hand.
29. And he tried it again but it did not succeed, and Balaam despaired
of it and left it and did not complete it, for this was from the
Lord, in order to cause Zepho and his people to fall into the hand
of the children of Israel, who had trusted in the Lord, the God of
their ancestors, in their war.
30. And Zepho and Hadad put their forces in battle array, and all the
Egyptians went alone against them, about three hundred thousand
men, and not one man of Israel was with them.
31. And all the Egyptians fought with these kings opposite Pathros and
Tachpanches, and the battle was severe against the Egyptians.
32. And the kings were stronger than the Egyptians in that battle, and
about one hundred and eighty men of Egypt fell on that day, and
about thirty men of the forces of the kings, and all the men of
Egypt fled from before the kings, so the children of Esau and
Ishmael pursued the Egyptians, continuing to smite them unto the
place where was the camp of the children of Israel.
33. And all the Egyptians cried unto the children of Israel, saying,
Hasten to us and assist us and save us from the hand of Esau,
Ishmael and the children of Chittim.
34. And the hundred and fifty men of the children of Israel ran from
their station to the camps of these kings, and the children of
Israel cried unto the Lord their God to deliver them.
35. And the Lord hearkened to Israel, and the Lord gave all the men of
the kings into their hand, and the children of Israel fought
against these kings, and the children of Israel smote about four
thousand of the kings’ men.
36. And the Lord threw a great consternation in the camp of the kings,
so that the fear of the children of Israel fell upon them.
37. And all the hosts of the kings fled from before the children of
Israel and the children of Israel pursued them continuing to smite
them unto the borders of the land of Cush.
38. And the children of Israel slew of them in the road yet two
thousand men, and of the children of Israel not one fell.
39. And when the Egyptians saw that the children of Israel had fought
with such few men with the kings, and that the battle was so very
severe against them,
40. All the Egyptians were greatly afraid of their lives on account of
the strong battle, and all Egypt fled, every man hiding himself
from the arrayed forces, and they hid themselves in the road, and
they left the Israelites to fight.
41. And the children of Israel inflicted a terrible blow upon the
kings’ men, and they returned from them after they had driven them
to the border of the land of Cush.
42. And all Israel knew the thing which the men of Egypt had done to
them, that they had fled from them in battle, and had left them to
fight alone.
43. So the children of Israel also acted with cunning, and as the
children of Israel returned from battle, they found some of the
Egyptians in the road and smote them there.
44. And whilst they slew them, they said unto them these words:
45. Wherefore did you go from us and leave us, being a few people, to
fight against these kings who had a great people to smite us, that
you might thereby deliver your own souls?
46. And of some which the Israelites met on the road, they the children
of Israel spoke to each other, saying, Smite, smite, for he is an
Ishmaelite, or an Edomite, or from the children of Chittim, and
they stood over him and slew him, and they knew that he was an
Egyptian.
47. And the children of Israel did these things cunningly against the
Egyptians, because they had deserted them in battle and had fled
from them.
48. And the children of Israel slew of the men of Egypt in the road in
this manner, about two hundred men.
49. And all the men of Egypt saw the evil which the children of Israel
had done to them, so all Egypt feared greatly the children of
Israel, for they had seen their great power, and that not one man
of them had fallen.
50. So all the children of Israel returned with joy on their road to
Goshen, and the rest of Egypt returned each man to his place.

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1. And it came to pass after these things, that all the counsellors of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all the elders of Egypt assembled and
came before the king and bowed down to the ground, and they sat
before him.
2. And the counsellors and elders of Egypt spoke unto the king,
saying,
3. Behold the people of the children of Israel is greater and mightier
than we are, and thou knowest all the evil which they did to us in
the road when we returned from battle.
4. And thou hast also seen their strong power, for this power is unto
them from their fathers, for but a few men stood up against a
people numerous as the sand, and smote them at the edge of the
sword, and of themselves not one has fallen, so that if they had
been numerous they would then have utterly destroyed them.
5. Now therefore give us counsel what to do with them, until we
gradually destroy them from amongst us, lest they become too
numerous for us in the land.
6. For if the children of Israel should increase in the land, they
will become an obstacle to us, and if any war should happen to take
place, they with their great strength will join our enemy against
us, and fight against us, destroy us from the land and go away from
it.
7. So the king answered the elders of Egypt and said unto them, This
is the plan advised against Israel, from which we will not depart,
8. Behold in the land are Pithom and Rameses, cities unfortified
against battle, it behooves you and us to build them, and to
fortify them.
9. Now therefore go you also and act cunningly toward them, and
proclaim a voice in Egypt and in Goshen at the command of the king,
saying,
10. All ye men of Egypt, Goshen, Pathros and all their inhabitants! the
king has commanded us to build Pithom and Rameses, and to fortify
them for battle; who amongst you of all Egypt, of the children of
Israel and of all the inhabitants of the cities, are willing to
build with us, shall each have his wages given to him daily at the
king’s order; so go you first and do cunningly, and gather
yourselves and come to Pithom and Rameses to build.
11. And whilst you are building, cause a proclamation of this kind to
be made throughout Egypt every day at the command of the king.
12. And when some of the children of Israel shall come to build with
you, you shall give them their wages daily for a few days.
13. And after they shall have built with you for their daily hire, drag
yourselves away from them daily one by one in secret, and then you
shall rise up and become their task-masters and officers, and you
shall leave them afterward to build without wages, and should they
refuse, then force them with all your might to build.
14. And if you do this it will be well with us to strengthen our land
against the children of Israel, for on account of the fatigue of
the building and the work, the children of Israel will decrease,
because you will deprive them from their wives day by day.
15. And all the elders of Egypt heard the counsel of the king, and the
counsel seemed good in their eyes and in the eyes of the servants
of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all Egypt, and they did according to
the word of the king.
16. And all the servants went away from the king, and they caused a
proclamation to be made in all Egypt, in Tachpanches and in Goshen,
and in all the cities which surrounded Egypt, saying,
17. You have seen what the children of Esau and Ishmael did to us, who
came to war against us and wished to destroy us.
18. Now therefore the king commanded us to fortify the land, to build
the cities Pithom and Rameses, and to fortify them for battle, if
they should again come against us.
19. Whosoever of you from all Egypt and from the children of Israel
will come to build with us, he shall have his daily wages given by
the king, as his command is unto us.
20. And when Egypt and all the children of Israel heard all that the
servants of Pharaoh had spoken, there came from the Egyptians, and
the children of Israel to build with the servants of Pharaoh,
Pithom and Rameses, but none of the children of Levi came with
their brethren to build.
21. And all the servants of Pharaoh and his princes came at first with
deceit to build with all Israel as daily hired laborers, and they
gave to Israel their daily hire at the beginning.
22. And the servants of Pharaoh built with all Israel, and were
employed in that work with Israel for a month.
23. And at the end of the month, all the servants of Pharaoh began to
withdraw secretly from the people of Israel daily.
24. And Israel went on with the work at that time, but they then
received their daily hire, because some of the men of Egypt were
yet carrying on the work with Israel at that time; therefore the
Egyptians gave Israel their hire in those days, in order that they,
the Egyptians their fellow-workmen, might also take the pay for
their labor.
25. And at the end of a year and four months all the Egyptians had
withdrawn from the children of Israel, so that the children of
Israel were left alone engaged in the work.
26. And after all the Egyptians had withdrawn from the children of
Israel they returned and became oppressors and officers over them,
and some of them stood over the children of Israel as task masters,
to receive from them all that they gave them for the pay of their
labor.
27. And the Egyptians did in this manner to the children of Israel day
by day, in order to afflict in their work.
28. And all the children of Israel were alone engaged in the labor, and
the Egyptians refrained from giving any pay to the children of
Israel from that time forward.
29. And when some of the men of Israel refused to work on account of
the wages not being given to them, then the exactors and the
servants of Pharaoh oppressed them and smote them with heavy blows,
and made them return by force, to labor with their brethren; thus
did all the Egyptians unto the children of Israel all the days.
30. And all the children of Israel were greatly afraid of the Egyptians
in this matter, and all the children of Israel returned and worked
alone without pay.
31. And the children of Israel built Pithom and Rameses, and all the
children of Israel did the work, some making bricks, and some
building, and the children of Israel built and fortified all the
land of Egypt and its walls, and the children of Israel were
engaged in work for many years, until the time came when the Lord
remembered them and brought them out of Egypt.
32. But the children of Levi were not employed in the work with their
brethren of Israel, from the beginning unto the day of their going
forth from Egypt.
33. For all the children of Levi knew that the Egyptians had spoken all
these words with deceit to the Israelites, therefore the children
of Levi refrained from approaching to the work with their brethren.
34. And the Egyptians did not direct their attention to make the
children of Levi work afterward, since they had not been with their
brethren at the beginning, therefore the Egyptians left them alone.
35. And the hands of the men of Egypt were directed with continued
severity against the children of Israel in that work, and the
Egyptians made the children of Israel work with rigor.
36. And the Egyptians embittered the lives of the children of Israel
with hard work, in mortar and bricks, and also in all manner of
work in the field.
37. And the children of Israel called Melol the king of Egypt “Meror,
king of Egypt,” because in his days the Egyptians had embittered
their lives with all manner of work.
38. And all the work wherein the Egyptians made the children of Israel
labor, they exacted with rigor, in order to afflict the children of
Israel, but the more they afflicted them, the more they increased
and grew, and the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of
Israel.

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1. At that time died Hadad the son of Bedad king of Edom, and Samlah
from Mesrekah, from the country of the children of the east,
reigned in his place.
2. In the thirteenth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, which
was the hundred and twenty-fifth year of the Israelites going down
into Egypt, Samlah had reigned over Edom eighteen years.
3. And when he reigned, he drew forth his hosts to go and fight
against Zepho the son of Eliphaz and the children of Chittim,
because they had made war against Angeas king of Africa, and they
destroyed his whole army.
4. But he did not engage with him, for the children of Esau prevented
him, saying, He was their brother, so Samlah listened to the voice
of the children of Esau, and turned back with all his forces to the
land of Edom, and did not proceed to fight against Zepho the son of
Eliphaz.
5. And Pharaoh king of Egypt heard this thing, saying, Samlah king of
Edom has resolved to fight the children of Chittim, and afterward
he will come to fight against Egypt.
6. And when the Egyptians heard this matter, they increased the labor
upon the children of Israel, lest the Israelites should do unto
them as they did unto them in their war with the children of Esau
in the days of Hadad.
7. So the Egyptians said unto the children of Israel, Hasten and do
your work, and finish your task, and strengthen the land, lest the
children of Esau your brethren should come to fight against us, for
on your account will they come against us.
8. And the children of Israel did the work of the men of Egypt day by
day, and the Egyptians afflicted the children of Israel in order to
lessen them in the land.
9. But as the Egyptians increased the labor upon the children of
Israel, so did the children of Israel increase and multiply, and
all Egypt was filled with the children of Israel.
10. And in the hundred and twenty-fifth year of Israel’s going down
into Egypt, all the Egyptians saw that their counsel did not
succeed against Israel, but that they increased and grew, and the
land of Egypt and the land of Goshen were filled with the children
of Israel.
11. So all the elders of Egypt and its wise men came before the king
and bowed down to him and sat before him.
12. And all the elders of Egypt and the wise men thereof said unto the
king, May the king live forever; thou didst counsel us the counsel
against the children of Israel, and we did unto them according to
the word of the king.
13. But in proportion to the increase of the labor so do they increase
and grow in the land, and behold the whole country is filled with
them.
14. Now therefore our lord and king, the eyes of all Egypt are upon
thee to give them advice with thy wisdom, by which they may prevail
over Israel to destroy them, or to diminish them from the land; and
the king answered them saying, Give you counsel in this matter that
we may know what to do unto them.
15. And an officer, one of the king’s counsellors, whose name was Job,
from Mesopotamia, in the land of Uz, answered the king, saying,
16. If it please the king, let him hear the counsel of his servant; and
the king said unto him, Speak.
17. And Job spoke before the king, the princes, and before all the
elders of Egypt, saying,
18. Behold the counsel of the king which he advised formerly respecting
the labor of the children of Israel is very good, and you must not
remove from them that labor forever.
19. But this is the advice counselled by which you may lessen them, if
it seems good to the king to afflict them.
20. Behold we have feared war for a long time, and we said, When Israel
becomes fruitful in the land, they will drive us from the land if a
war should take place.
21. If it please the king, let a royal decree go forth, and let it be
written in the laws of Egypt which shall not be revoked, that every
male child born to the Israelites, his blood shall be spilled upon
the ground.
22. And by your doing this, when all the male children of Israel shall
have died, the evil of their wars will cease; let the king do so
and send for all the Hebrew midwives and order them in this matter
to execute it; so the thing pleased the king and the princes, and
the king did according to the word of Job.
23. And the king sent for the Hebrew midwives to be called, of which
the name of one was Shephrah, and the name of the other Puah.
24. And the midwives came before the king, and stood in his presence.
25. And the king said unto them, When you do the office of a midwife to
the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools, if it be a son,
then you shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall
live.
26. But if you will not do this thing, then will I burn you up and all
your houses with fire.
27. But the midwives feared God and did not hearken to the king of
Egypt nor to his words, and when the Hebrew women brought forth to
the midwife son or daughter, then did the midwife do all that was
necessary to the child and let it live; thus did the midwives all
the days.
28. And this thing was told to the king, and he sent and called for the
midwives and he said to them, Why have you done this thing and have
saved the children alive?
29. And the midwives answered and spoke together before the king,
saying,
30. Let not the king think that the Hebrew women are as the Egyptian
women, for all the children of Israel are hale, and before the
midwife comes to them they are delivered, and as for us thy
handmaids, for many days no Hebrew woman has brought forth upon us,
for all the Hebrew women are their own midwives, because they are
hale.
31. And Pharaoh heard their words and believed them in this matter, and
the midwives went away from the king, and God dealt well with them,
and the people multiplied and waxed exceedingly.

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1. There was a man in the land of Egypt of the seed of Levi, whose
name was Amram, the son of Kehath, the son of Levi, the son of
Israel.
2. And this man went and took a wife, namely Jochebed the daughter of
Levi his father’s sister, and she was one hundred and twenty-six
years old, and he came unto her.
3. And the woman conceived and bare a daughter, and she called her
name Miriam, because in those days the Egyptians had embittered the
lives of the children of Israel.
4. And she conceived again and bare a son and she called his name
Aaron, for in the days of her conception, Pharaoh began to spill
the blood of the male children of Israel.
5. In those days died Zepho the son of Eliphaz, son of Esau, king of
Chittim, and Janeas reigned in his stead.
6. And the time that Zepho reigned over the children of Chittim was
fifty years, and he died and was buried in the city of Nabna in the
land of Chittim.
7. And Janeas, one of the mighty men of the children of Chittim,
reigned after him and he reigned fifty years.
8. And it was after the death of the king of Chittim that Balaam the
son of Beor fled from the land of Chittim, and he went and came to
Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9. And Pharaoh received him with great honor, for he had heard of his
wisdom, and he gave him presents and made him for a counsellor, and
aggrandized him.
10. And Balaam dwelt in Egypt, in honor with all the nobles of the
king, and the nobles exalted him, because they all coveted to learn
his wisdom.
11. And in the hundred and thirtieth year of Israel’s going down to
Egypt, Pharaoh dreamed that he was sitting upon his kingly throne,
and lifted up his eyes and saw an old man standing before him, and
there were scales in the hands of the old man, such scales as are
used by merchants.
12. And the old man took the scales and hung them before Pharaoh.
13. And the old man took all the elders of Egypt and all its nobles and
great men, and he tied them together and put them in one scale.
14. And he took a milk kid and put it into the other scale, and the kid
preponderated over all.
15. And Pharaoh was astonished at this dreadful vision, why the kid
should preponderate over all, and Pharaoh awoke and behold it was a
dream.
16. And Pharaoh rose up early in the morning and called all his
servants and related to them the dream, and the men were greatly
afraid.
17. And the king said to all his wise men, Interpret I pray you the
dream which I dreamed, that I may know it.
18. And Balaam the son of Beor answered the king and said unto him,
This means nothing else but a great evil that will spring up
against Egypt in the latter days.
19. For a son will be born to Israel who will destroy all Egypt and its
inhabitants, and bring forth the Israelites from Egypt with a
mighty hand.
20. Now therefore, O king, take counsel upon this matter, that you may
destroy the hope of the children of Israel and their expectation,
before this evil arise against Egypt.
21. And the king said unto Balaam, And what shall we do unto Israel?
surely after a certain manner did we at first counsel against them
and could not prevail over them.
22. Now therefore give you also advice against them by which we may
prevail over them.
23. And Balaam answered the king, saying, Send now and call thy two
counsellors, and we will see what their advice is upon this matter
and afterward thy servant will speak.
24. And the king sent and called his two counsellors Reuel the
Midianite and Job the Uzite, and they came and sat before the king.
25. And the king said to them, Behold you have both heard the dream
which I have dreamed, and the interpretation thereof; now therefore
give counsel and know and see what is to be done to the children of
Israel, whereby we may prevail over them, before their evil shall
spring up against us.
26. And Reuel the Midianite answered the king and said, May the king
live, may the king live forever.
27. If it seem good to the king, let him desist from the Hebrews and
leave them, and let him not stretch forth his hand against them.
28. For these are they whom the Lord chose in days of old, and took as
the lot of his inheritance from amongst all the nations of the
earth and the kings of the earth; and who is there that stretched
his hand against them with impunity, of whom their God was not
avenged?
29. Surely thou knowest that when Abraham went down to Egypt, Pharaoh,
the former king of Egypt, saw Sarah his wife, and took her for a
wife, because Abraham said, She is my sister, for he was afraid,
lest the men of Egypt should slay him on account of his wife.
30. And when the king of Egypt had taken Sarah then God smote him and
his household with heavy plagues, until he restored unto Abraham
his wife Sarah, then was he healed.
31. And Abimelech the Gerarite, king of the Philistines, God punished
on account of Sarah wife of Abraham, in stopping up every womb from
man to beast.
32. When their God came to Abimelech in the dream of night and
terrified him in order that he might restore to Abraham Sarah whom
he had taken, and afterward all the people of Gerar were punished
on account of Sarah, and Abraham prayed to his God for them, and he
was entreated of him, and he healed them.
33. And Abimelech feared all this evil that came upon him and his
people, and he returned to Abraham his wife Sarah, and gave him
with her many gifts.
34. He did so also to Isaac when he had driven him from Gerar, and God
had done wonderful things to him, that all the water courses of
Gerar were dried up, and their productive trees did not bring
forth.
35. Until Abimelech of Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and
Pichol the captain of his host, went to him and they bent and bowed
down before him to the ground.
36. And they requested of him to supplicate for them, and he prayed to
the Lord for them, and the Lord was entreated of him and he healed
them.
37. Jacob also, the plain man, was delivered through his integrity from
the hand of his brother Esau, and the hand of Laban the Syrian his
mother’s brother, who had sought his life; likewise from the hand
of all the kings of Canaan who had come together against him and
his children to destroy them, and the Lord delivered them out of
their hands, that they turned upon them and smote them, for who had
ever stretched forth his hand against them with impunity?
38. Surely Pharaoh the former, thy father’s father, raised Joseph the
son of Jacob above all the princes of the land of Egypt, when he
saw his wisdom, for through his wisdom he rescued all the
inhabitants of the land from the famine.
39. After which he ordered Jacob and his children to come down to
Egypt, in order that through their virtue, the land of Egypt and
the land of Goshen might be delivered from the famine.
40. Now therefore if it seem good in thine eyes, cease from destroying
the children of Israel, but if it be not thy will that they shall
dwell in Egypt, send them forth from here, that they may go to the
land of Canaan, the land where their ancestors sojourned.
41. And when Pharaoh heard the words of Jethro he was very angry with
him, so that he rose with shame from the king’s presence, and went
to Midian, his land, and took Joseph’s stick with him.
42. And the king said to Job the Uzite, What sayest thou Job, and what
is thy advice respecting the Hebrews?
43. So Job said to the king, Behold all the inhabitants of the land are
in thy power, let the king do as it seems good in his eyes.
44. And the king said unto Balaam, What dost thou say, Balaam, speak
thy word that we may hear it.
45. And Balaam said to the king, Of all that the king has counselled
against the Hebrews will they be delivered, and the king will not
be able to prevail over them with any counsel.
46. For if thou thinkest to lessen them by the flaming fire, thou canst
not prevail over them, for surely their God delivered Abraham their
father from Ur of the Chaldeans; and if thou thinkest to destroy
them with a sword, surely Isaac their father was delivered from it,
and a ram was placed in his stead.
47. And if with hard and rigorous labor thou thinkest to lessen them,
thou wilt not prevail even in this, for their father Jacob served
Laban in all manner of hard work, and prospered.
48. Now therefore, O King, hear my words, for this is the counsel which
is counselled against them, by which thou wilt prevail over them,
and from which thou shouldst not depart.
49. If it please the king let him order all their children which shall
be born from this day forward, to be thrown into the water, for by
this canst thou wipe away their name, for none of them, nor of
their fathers, were tried in this manner.
50. And the king heard the words of Balaam, and the thing pleased the
king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of
Balaam.
51. And the king ordered a proclamation to be issued and a law to be
made throughout the land of Egypt, saying, Every male child born to
the Hebrews from this day forward shall be thrown into the water.
52. And Pharaoh called unto all his servants, saying, Go now and seek
throughout the land of Goshen where the children of Israel are, and
see that every son born to the Hebrews shall be cast into the
river, but every daughter you shall let live.
53. And when the children of Israel heard this thing which Pharaoh had
commanded, to cast their male children into the river, some of the
people separated from their wives and others adhered to them.
54. And from that day forward, when the time of delivery arrived to
those women of Israel who had remained with their husbands, they
went to the field to bring forth there, and they brought forth in
the field, and left their children upon the field and returned
home.
55. And the Lord who had sworn to their ancestors to multiply them,
sent one of his ministering angels which are in heaven to wash each
child in water, to anoint and swathe it and to put into its hands
two smooth stones from one of which it sucked milk and from the
other honey, and he caused its hair to grow to its knees, by which
it might cover itself; to comfort it and to cleave to it, through
his compassion for it.
56. And when God had compassion over them and had desired to multiply
them upon the face of the land, he ordered his earth to receive
them to be preserved therein till the time of their growing up,
after which the earth opened its mouth and vomited them forth and
they sprouted forth from the city like the herb of the earth, and
the grass of the forest, and they returned each to his family and
to his father’s house, and they remained with them.
57. And the babes of the children of Israel were upon the earth like
the herb of the field, through God’s grace to them.
58. And when all the Egyptians saw this thing, they went forth, each to
his field with his yoke of oxen and his ploughshare, and they
ploughed it up as one ploughs the earth at seed time.
59. And when they ploughed they were unable to hurt the infants of the
children of Israel, so the people increased and waxed exceedingly.
60. And Pharaoh ordered his officers daily to go to Goshen to seek for
the babes of the children of Israel.
61. And when they had sought and found one, they took it from its
mother’s bosom by force, and threw it into the river, but the
female child they left with its mother; thus did the Egyptians do
to the Israelites all the days.

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1. And it was at that time the spirit of God was upon Miriam the
daughter of Amram the sister of Aaron, and she went forth and
prophesied about the house, saying, Behold a son will be born unto
us from my father and mother this time, and he will save Israel
from the hands of Egypt.
2. And when Amram heard the words of his daughter, he went and took
his wife back to the house, after he had driven her away at the
time when Pharaoh ordered every male child of the house of Jacob to
be thrown into the water.
3. So Amram took Jochebed his wife, three years after he had driven
her away, and he came to her and she conceived.
4. And at the end of seven months from her conception she brought
forth a son, and the whole house was filled with great light as of
the light of the sun and moon at the time of their shining.
5. And when the woman saw the child that it was good and pleasing to
the sight, she hid it for three months in an inner room.
6. In those days the Egyptians conspired to destroy all the Hebrews
there.
7. And the Egyptian women went to Goshen where the children of Israel
were, and they carried their young ones upon their shoulders, their
babes who could not yet speak.
8. And in those days, when the women of the children of Israel brought
forth, each woman had hidden her son from before the Egyptians,
that the Egyptians might not know of their bringing forth, and
might not destroy them from the land.
9. And the Egyptian women came to Goshen and their children who could
not speak were upon their shoulders, and when an Egyptian woman
came into the house of a Hebrew woman her babe began to cry.
10. And when it cried the child that was in the inner room answered it,
so the Egyptian women went and told it at the house of Pharaoh.
11. And Pharaoh sent his officers to take the children and slay them;
thus did the Egyptians to the Hebrew women all the days.
12. And it was at that time, about three months from Jochebed’s
concealment of her son, that the thing was known in Pharaoh’s
house.
13. And the woman hastened to take away her son before the officers
came, and she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with
slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in
the flags by the river’s brink.
14. And his sister Miriam stood afar off to know what would be done to
him, and what would become of her words.
15. And God sent forth at that time a terrible heat in the land of
Egypt, which burned up the flesh of man like the sun in his
circuit, and it greatly oppressed the Egyptians.
16. And all the Egyptians went down to bathe in the river, on account
of the consuming heat which burned up their flesh.
17. And Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, went also to bathe in the
river, owing to the consuming heat, and her maidens walked at the
river side, and all the women of Egypt as well.
18. And Bathia lifted up her eyes to the river, and she saw the ark
upon the water, and sent her maid to fetch it.
19. And she opened it and saw the child, and behold the babe wept, and
she had compassion on him, and she said, This is one of the Hebrew
children.
20. And all the women of Egypt walking on the river side desired to
give him suck, but he would not suck, for this thing was from the
Lord, in order to restore him to his mother’s breast.
21. And Miriam his sister was at that time amongst the Egyptian women
at the river side, and she saw this thing and she said to Pharaoh’s
daughter, Shall I go and fetch a nurse of the Hebrew women, that
she may nurse the child for thee?
22. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go, and the young woman went
and called the child’s mother.
23. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to Jochebed, Take this child away and
suckle it for me, and I will pay thee thy wages, two bits of silver
daily; and the woman took the child and nursed it.
24. And at the end of two years, when the child grew up, she brought
him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he was unto her as a son, and
she called his name Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of
the water.
25. And Amram his father called his name Chabar, for he said, It was
for him that he associated with his wife whom he had turned away.
26. And Jochebed his mother called his name Jekuthiel, Because, she
said, I have hoped for him to the Almighty, and God restored him
unto me.
27. And Miriam his sister called him Jered, for she descended after him
to the river to know what his end would be.
28. And Aaron his brother called his name Abi Zanuch, saying, My father
left my mother and returned to her on his account.
29. And Kehath the father of Amram called his name Abigdor, because on
his account did God repair the breach of the house of Jacob, that
they could no longer throw their male children into the water.
30. And their nurse called him Abi Socho, saying, In his tabernacle was
he hidden for three months, on account of the children of Ham.
31. And all Israel called his name Shemaiah, son of Nethanel, for they
said, In his days has God heard their cries and rescued them from
their oppressors.
32. And Moses was in Pharaoh’s house, and was unto Bathia, Pharaoh’s
daughter, as a son, and Moses grew up amongst the king’s children.

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1. And the king of Edom died in those days, in the eighteenth year of
his reign, and was buried in his temple which he had built for
himself as his royal residence in the land of Edom.
2. And the children of Esau sent to Pethor, which is upon the river,
and they fetched from there a young man of beautiful eyes and
comely aspect, whose name was Saul, and they made him king over
them in the place of Samlah.
3. And Saul reigned over all the children of Esau in the land of Edom
for forty years.
4. And when Pharaoh king of Egypt saw that the counsel which Balaam
had advised respecting the children of Israel did not succeed, but
that still they were fruitful, multiplied and increased throughout
the land of Egypt,
5. Then Pharaoh commanded in those days that a proclamation should be
issued throughout Egypt to the children of Israel, saying, No man
shall diminish any thing of his daily labor.
6. And the man who shall be found deficient in his labor which he
performs daily, whether in mortar or in bricks, then his youngest
son shall be put in their place.
7. And the labor of Egypt strengthened upon the children of Israel in
those days, and behold if one brick was deficient in any man’s
daily labor, the Egyptians took his youngest boy by force from his
mother, and put him into the building in the place of the brick
which his father had left wanting.
8. And the men of Egypt did so to all the children of Israel day by
day, all the days for a long period.
9. But the tribe of Levi did not at that time work with the Israelites
their brethren, from the beginning, for the children of Levi knew
the cunning of the Egyptians which they exercised at first toward
the Israelites.

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1. And in the third year from the birth of Moses, Pharaoh was sitting
at a banquet, when Alparanith the queen was sitting at his right
and Bathia at his left, and the lad Moses was lying upon her bosom,
and Balaam the son of Beor with his two sons, and all the princes
of the kingdom were sitting at table in the king’s presence.
2. And the lad stretched forth his hand upon the king’s head, and took
the crown from the king’s head and placed it on his own head.
3. And when the king and princes saw the work which the boy had done,
the king and princes were terrified, and one man to his neighbor
expressed astonishment.
4. And the king said unto the princes who were before him at table,
What speak you and what say you, O ye princes, in this matter, and
what is to be the judgment against the boy on account of this act?
5. And Balaam the son of Beor the magician answered before the king
and princes, and he said, Remember now, O my lord and king, the
dream which thou didst dream many days since, and that which thy
servant interpreted unto thee.
6. Now therefore this is a child from the Hebrew children, in whom is
the spirit of God, and let not my lord the king imagine that this
youngster did this thing without knowledge.
7. For he is a Hebrew boy, and wisdom and understanding are with him,
although he is yet a child, and with wisdom has he done this and
chosen unto himself the kingdom of Egypt.
8. For this is the manner of all the Hebrews to deceive kings and
their nobles, to do all these things cunningly, in order to make
the kings of the earth and their men tremble.
9. Surely thou knowest that Abraham their father acted thus, who
deceived the army of Nimrod king of Babel, and Abimelech king of
Gerar, and that he possessed himself of the land of the children of
Heth and all the kingdoms of Canaan.
10. And that he descended into Egypt and said of Sarah his wife, she is
my sister, in order to mislead Egypt and her king.
11. His son Isaac also did so when he went to Gerar and dwelt there,
and his strength prevailed over the army of Abimelech king of the
Philistines.
12. He also thought of making the kingdom of the Philistines stumble,
in saying that Rebecca his wife was his sister.
13. Jacob also dealt treacherously with his brother, and took from his
hand his birthright and his blessing.
14. He went then to Padan-aram to the house of Laban his mother’s
brother, and cunningly obtained from him his daughter, his cattle,
and all belonging to him, and fled away and returned to the land of
Canaan to his father.
15. His sons sold their brother Joseph, who went down into Egypt and
became a slave, and was placed in the prison house for twelve
years.
16. Until the former Pharaoh dreamed dreams, and withdrew him from the
prison house, and magnified him above all the princes in Egypt on
account of his interpreting his dreams to him.
17. And when God caused a famine throughout the land he sent for and
brought his father and all his brothers, and the whole of his
father’s household, and supported them without price or reward, and
bought the Egyptians for slaves.
18. Now therefore my lord king behold this child has risen up in their
stead in Egypt, to do according to their deeds and to trifle with
every king, prince and judge.
19. If it please the king, let us now spill his blood upon the ground,
lest he grow up and take away the government from thy hand, and the
hope of Egypt perish after he shall have reigned.
20. And Balaam said to the king, Let us moreover call for all the
judges of Egypt and the wise men thereof, and let us know if the
judgment of death is due to this boy as thou didst say, and then we
will slay him.
21. And Pharaoh sent and called for all the wise men of Egypt and they
came before the king, and an angel of the Lord came amongst them,
and he was like one of the wise men of Egypt.
22. And the king said to the wise men, Surely you have heard what this
Hebrew boy who is in the house has done, and thus has Balaam judged
in the matter.
23. Now judge you also and see what is due to the boy for the act he
has committed.
24. And the angel, who seemed like one of the wise men of Pharaoh,
answered and said as follows, before all the wise men of Egypt and
before the king and the princes:
25. If it please the king let the king send for men who shall bring
before him an onyx stone and a coal of fire, and place them before
the child, and if the child shall stretch forth his hand and take
the onyx stone, then shall we know that with wisdom has the youth
done all that he has done, and we must slay him.
26. But if he stretch forth his hand upon the coal, then shall we know
that it was not with knowledge that he did this thing, and he shall
live.
27. And the thing seemed good in the eyes of the king and the princes,
so the king did according to the word of the angel of the Lord.
28. And the king ordered the onyx stone and coal to be brought and
placed before Moses.
29. And they placed the boy before them, and the lad endeavored to
stretch forth his hand to the onyx stone, but the angel of the Lord
took his hand and placed it upon the coal, and the coal became
extinguished in his hand, and he lifted it up and put it into his
mouth, and burned part of his lips and part of his tongue, and he
became heavy in mouth and tongue.
30. And when the king and princes saw this, they knew that Moses had
not acted with wisdom in taking off the crown from the king’s head.
31. So the king and princes refrained from slaying the child, so Moses
remained in Pharaoh’s house, growing up, and the Lord was with him.
32. And whilst the boy was in the king’s house, he was robed in purple
and he grew amongst the children of the king.
33. And when Moses grew up in the king’s house, Bathia the daughter of
Pharaoh considered him as a son, and all the household of Pharaoh
honored him, and all the men of Egypt were afraid of him.
34. And he daily went forth and came into the land of Goshen, where his
brethren the children of Israel were, and Moses saw them daily in
shortness of breath and hard labor.
35. And Moses asked them, saying, Wherefore is this labor meted out
unto you day by day?
36. And they told him all that had befallen them, and all the
injunctions which Pharaoh had put upon them before his birth.
37. And they told him all the counsels which Balaam the son of Beor had
counselled against them, and what he had also counselled against
him in order to slay him when he had taken the king’s crown from
off his head.
38. And when Moses heard these things his anger was kindled against
Balaam, and he sought to kill him, and he was in ambush for him day
by day.
39. And Balaam was afraid of Moses, and he and his two sons rose up and
went forth from Egypt, and they fled and delivered their souls and
betook themselves to the land of Cush to Kikianus, king of Cush.
40. And Moses was in the king’s house going out and coming in, the Lord
gave him favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his
servants, and in the eyes of all the people of Egypt, and they
loved Moses exceedingly.
41. And the day arrived when Moses went to Goshen to see his brethren,
that he saw the children of Israel in their burdens and hard labor,
and Moses was grieved on their account.
42. And Moses returned to Egypt and came to the house of Pharaoh, and
came before the king, and Moses bowed down before the king.
43. And Moses said unto Pharaoh, I pray thee my lord, I have come to
seek a small request from thee, turn not away my face empty; and
Pharaoh said unto him, Speak.
44. And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Let there be given unto thy servants
the children of Israel who are in Goshen, one day to rest therein
from their labor.
45. And the king answered Moses and said, Behold I have lifted up thy
face in this thing to grant thy request.
46. And Pharaoh ordered a proclamation to be issued throughout Egypt
and Goshen, saying,
47. To you, all the children of Israel, thus says the king, for six
days you shall do your work and labor, but on the seventh day you
shall rest, and shall not preform any work, thus shall you do all
the days, as the king and Moses the son of Bathia have commanded.
48. And Moses rejoiced at this thing which the king had granted to him,
and all the children of Israel did as Moses ordered them.
49. For this thing was from the Lord to the children of Israel, for the
Lord had begun to remember the children of Israel to save them for
the sake of their fathers.
50. And the Lord was with Moses and his fame went throughout Egypt.
51. And Moses became great in the eyes of all the Egyptians, and in the
eyes of all the children of Israel, seeking good for his people
Israel and speaking words of peace regarding them to the king.

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1. And when Moses was eighteen years old, he desired to see his father
and mother and he went to them to Goshen, and when Moses had come
near Goshen, he came to the place where the children of Israel were
engaged in work, and he observed their burdens, and he saw an
Egyptian smiting one of his Hebrew brethren.
2. And when the man who was beaten saw Moses he ran to him for help,
for the man Moses was greatly respected in the house of Pharaoh,
and he said to him, My lord attend to me, this Egyptian came to my
house in the night, bound me, and came to my wife in my presence,
and now he seeks to take my life away.
3. And when Moses heard this wicked thing, his anger was kindled
against the Egyptian, and he turned this way and the other, and
when he saw there was no man there he smote the Egyptian and hid
him in the sand, and delivered the Hebrew from the hand of him that
smote him.
4. And the Hebrew went to his house, and Moses returned to his home,
and went forth and came back to the king’s house.
5. And when the man had returned home, he thought of repudiating his
wife, for it was not right in the house of Jacob, for any man to
come to his wife after she had been defiled.
6. And the woman went and told her brothers, and the woman’s brothers
sought to slay him, and he fled to his house and escaped.
7. And on the second day Moses went forth to his brethren, and saw,
and behold two men were quarreling, and he said to the wicked one,
Why dost thou smite thy neighbor?
8. And he answered him and said to him, Who has set thee for a prince
and judge over us? dost thou think to slay me as thou didst slay
the Egyptian? and Moses was afraid and he said, Surely the thing is
known?
9. And Pharaoh heard of this affair, and he ordered Moses to be slain,
so God sent his angel, and he appeared unto Pharaoh in the likeness
of a captain of the guard.
10. And the angel of the Lord took the sword from the hand of the
captain of the guard, and took his head off with it, for the
likeness of the captain of the guard was turned into the likeness
of Moses.
11. And the angel of the Lord took hold of the right hand of Moses, and
brought him forth from Egypt, and placed him from without the
borders of Egypt, a distance of forty days’ journey.
12. And Aaron his brother alone remained in the land of Egypt, and he
prophesied to the children of Israel, saying,
13. Thus says the Lord God of your ancestors, Throw away, each man, the
abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the
idols of Egypt.
14. And the children of Israel rebelled and would not hearken to Aaron
at that time.
15. And the Lord thought to destroy them, were it not that the Lord
remembered the covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob.
16. In those days the hand of Pharaoh continued to be severe against
the children of Israel, and he crushed and oppressed them until the
time when God sent forth his word and took notice of them.

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1. And it was in those days that there was a great war between the
children of Cush and the children of the east and Aram, and they
rebelled against the king of Cush in whose hands they were.
2. So Kikianus king of Cush went forth with all the children of Cush,
a people numerous as the sand, and he went to fight against Aram
and the children of the east, to bring them under subjection.
3. And when Kikianus went out, he left Balaam the magician, with his
two sons, to guard the city, and the lowest sort of the people of
the land.
4. So Kikianus went forth to Aram and the children of the east, and he
fought against them and smote them, and they all fell down wounded
before Kikianus and his people.
5. And he took many of them captives and he brought them under
subjection as at first, and he encamped upon their land to take
tribute from them as usual.
6. And Balaam the son of Beor, when the king of Cush had left him to
guard the city and the poor of the city, he rose up and advised
with the people of the land to rebel against king Kikianus, not to
let him enter the city when he should come home.
7. And the people of the land hearkened to him, and they swore to him
and made him king over them, and his two sons for captains of the
army.
8. So they rose up and raised the walls of the city at the two
corners, and they built an exceeding strong building.
9. And at the third corner they dug ditches without number, between
the city and the river which surrounded the whole land of Cush, and
they made the waters of the river burst forth there.
10. At the fourth corner they collected numerous serpents by their
incantations and enchantments, and they fortified the city and
dwelt therein, and no one went out or in before them.
11. And Kikianus fought against Aram and the children of the east and
he subdued them as before, and they gave him their usual tribute,
and he went and returned to his land.
12. And when Kikianus the king of Cush approached his city and all the
captains of the forces with him, they lifted up their eyes and saw
that the walls of the city were built up and greatly elevated, so
the men were astonished at this.
13. And they said one to the other, It is because they saw that we were
delayed, in battle, and were greatly afraid of us, therefore have
they done this thing and raised the city walls and fortified them
so that the kings of Canaan might not come in battle against them.
14. So the king and the troops approached the city door and they looked
up and behold, all the gates of the city were closed, and they
called out to the sentinels, saying, Open unto us, that we may
enter the city.
15. But the sentinels refused to open to them by the order of Balaam
the magician, their king, they suffered them not to enter their
city.
16. So they raised a battle with them opposite the city gate, and one
hundred and thirty men of the army at Kikianus fell on that day.
17. And on the next day they continued to fight and they fought at the
side of the river; they endeavored to pass but were not able, so
some of them sank in the pits and died.
18. So the king ordered them to cut down trees to make rafts, upon
which they might pass to them, and they did so.
19. And when they came to the place of the ditches, the waters revolved
by mills, and two hundred men upon ten rafts were drowned.
20. And on the third day they came to fight at the side where the
serpents were, but they could not approach there, for the serpents
slew of them one hundred and seventy men, and they ceased fighting
against Cush, and they besieged Cush for nine years, no person came
out or in.
21. At that time that the war and the siege were against Cush, Moses
fled from Egypt from Pharaoh who sought to kill him for having
slain the Egyptian.
22. And Moses was eighteen years old when he fled from Egypt from the
presence of Pharaoh, and he fled and escaped to the camp of
Kikianus, which at that time was besieging Cush.
23. And Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all
the time that they were besieging Cush, and Moses went out and came
in with them.
24. And the king and princes and all the fighting men loved Moses, for
he was great and worthy, his stature was like a noble lion, his
face was like the sun, and his strength was like that of a lion,
and he was counsellor to the king.
25. And at the end of nine years, Kikianus was seized with a mortal
disease, and his illness prevailed over him, and he died on the
seventh day.
26. So his servants embalmed him and carried him and buried him
opposite the city gate to the north of the land of Egypt.
27. And they built over him an elegant strong and high building, and
they placed great stones below.
28. And the king’s scribes engraved upon those stones all the might of
their king Kikianus, and all his battles which he had fought,
behold they are written there at this day.
29. Now after the death of Kikianus king of Cush it grieved his men and
troops greatly on account of the war.
30. So they said one to the other, Give us counsel what we are to do at
this time, as we have resided in the wilderness nine years away
from our homes.
31. If we say we will fight against the city many of us will fall
wounded or killed, and if we remain here in the siege we shall also
die.
32. For now all the kings of Aram and of the children of the east will
hear that our king is dead, and they will attack us suddenly in a
hostile manner, and they will fight against us and leave no remnant
of us.
33. Now therefore let us go and make a king over us, and let us remain
in the siege until the city is delivered up to us.
34. And they wished to choose on that day a man for king from the army
of Kikianus, and they found no object of their choice like Moses to
reign over them.
35. And they hastened and stripped off each man his garments and cast
them upon the ground, and they made a great heap and placed Moses
thereon.
36. And they rose up and blew with trumpets and called out before him,
and said, May the king live, may the king live!
37. And all the people and nobles swore unto him to give him for a wife
Adoniah the queen, the Cushite, wife of Kikianus, and they made
Moses king over them on that day.
38. And all the people of Cush issued a proclamation on that day,
saying, Every man must give something to Moses of what is in his
possession.
39. And they spread out a sheet upon the heap, and every man cast into
it something of what he had, one a gold earring and the other a
coin.
40. Also of onyx stones, bdellium, pearls and marble did the children
of Cush cast unto Moses upon the heap, also silver and gold in
great abundance.
41. And Moses took all the silver and gold, all the vessels, and the
bdellium and onyx stones, which all the children of Cush had given
to him, and he placed them amongst his treasures.
42. And Moses reigned over the children of Cush on that day, in the
place of Kikianus king of Cush.

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1. In the fifty-fifth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, that
is in the hundred and fifty-seventh year of the Israelites going
down into Egypt, reigned Moses in Cush.
2. Moses was twenty-seven years old when he began to reign over Cush,
and forty years did he reign.
3. And the Lord granted Moses favor and grace in the eyes of all the
children of Cush, and the children of Cush loved him exceedingly,
so Moses was favored by the Lord and by men.
4. And in the seventh day of his reign, all the children of Cush
assembled and came before Moses and bowed down to him to the
ground.
5. And all the children spoke together in the presence of the king,
saying, Give us counsel that we may see what is to be done to this
city.
6. For it is now nine years that we have been besieging round about
the city, and have not seen our children and our wives.
7. So the king answered them, saying, If you will hearken to my voice
in all that I shall command you, then will the Lord give the city
into our hands and we shall subdue it.
8. For if we fight with them as in the former battle which we had with
them before the death of Kikianus, many of us will fall down
wounded as before.
9. Now therefore behold here is counsel for you in this matter; if you
will hearken to my voice, then will the city be delivered into our
hands.
10. So all the forces answered the king, saying, All that our lord
shall command that will we do.
11. And Moses said unto them, Pass through and proclaim a voice in the
whole camp unto all the people, saying,
12. Thus says the king, Go into the forest and bring with you of the
young ones of the stork, each man a young one in his hand.
13. And any person transgressing the word of the king, who shall not
bring his young one, he shall die, and the king will take all
belonging to him.
14. And when you shall bring them they shall be in your keeping, you
shall rear them until they grow up, and you shall teach them to
dart upon, as is the way of the young ones of the hawk.
15. So all the children of Cush heard the words of Moses, and they rose
up and caused a proclamation to be issued throughout the camp,
saying,
16. Unto you, all the children of Cush, the king’s order is, that you
go all together to the forest, and catch there the young storks
each man his young one in his hand, and you shall bring them home.
17. And any person violating the order of the king shall die, and the
king will take all that belongs to him.
18. And all the people did so, and they went out to the wood and they
climbed the fir trees and caught, each man a young one in his hand,
all the young of the storks, and they brought them into the desert
and reared them by order of the king, and they taught them to dart
upon, similar to the young hawks.
19. And after the young storks were reared, the king ordered them to be
hungered for three days, and all the people did so.
20. And on the third day, the king said unto them, strengthen
yourselves and become valiant men, and put on each man his armor
and gird on his sword upon him, and ride each man his horse and
take each his young stork in his hand.
21. And we will rise up and fight against the city at the place where
the serpents are; and all the people did as the king had ordered.
22. And they took each man his young one in his hand, and they went
away, and when they came to the place of the serpents the king said
to them, Send forth each man his young stork upon the serpents.
23. And they sent forth each man his young stork at the king’s order,
and the young storks ran upon the serpents and they devoured them
all and destroyed them out of that place.
24. And when the king and people had seen that all the serpents were
destroyed in that place, all the people set up a great shout.
25. And they approached and fought against the city and took it and
subdued it, and they entered the city.
26. And there died on that day one thousand and one hundred men of the
people of the city, all that inhabited the city, but of the people
besieging not one died.
27. So all the children of Cush went each to his home, to his wife and
children and to all belonging to him.
28. And Balaam the magician, when he saw that the city was taken, he
opened the gate and he and his two sons and eight brothers fled and
returned to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt.
29. They are the sorcerers and magicians who are mentioned in the book
of the law, standing against Moses when the Lord brought the
plagues upon Egypt.
30. So Moses took the city by his wisdom, and the children of Cush
placed him on the throne instead of Kikianus king of Cush.
31. And they placed the royal crown upon his head, and they gave him
for a wife Adoniah the Cushite queen, wife of Kikianus.
32. And Moses feared the Lord God of his fathers, so that he came not
to her, nor did he turn his eyes to her.
33. For Moses remembered how Abraham had made his servant Eliezer
swear, saying unto him, Thou shalt not take a woman from the
daughters of Canaan for my son Isaac.
34. Also what Isaac did when Jacob had fled from his brother, when he
commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the
daughters of Canaan, nor make alliance with any of the children of
Ham.
35. For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and
all his seed, as slaves to the children of Shem and to the children
of Japheth, and unto their seed after them for slaves, forever.
36. Therefore Moses turned not his heart nor his eyes to the wife of
Kikianus all the days that he reigned over Cush.
37. And Moses feared the Lord his God all his life, and Moses walked
before the Lord in truth, with all his heart and soul, he turned
not from the right way all the days of his life; he declined not
from the way either to the right or to the left, in which Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob had walked.
38. And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of
Cush, and he guided the children of Cush with his usual wisdom, and
Moses prospered in his kingdom.
39. And at that time Aram and the children of the east heard that
Kikianus king of Cush had died, so Aram and the children of the
east rebelled against Cush in those days.
40. And Moses gathered all the children of Cush, a people very mighty,
about thirty thousand men, and he went forth to fight with Aram and
the children of the east.
41. And they went at first to the children of the east, and when the
children of the east heard their report, they went to meet them,
and engaged in battle with them.
42. And the war was severe against the children of the east, so the
Lord gave all the children of the east into the hand of Moses, and
about three hundred men fell down slain.
43. And all the children of the east turned back and retreated, so
Moses and the children of Cush followed them and subdued them, and
put a tax upon them, as was their custom.
44. So Moses and all the people with him passed from there to the land
of Aram for battle.
45. And the people of Aram also went to meet them, and they fought
against them, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Moses,
and many of the men of Aram fell down wounded.
46. And Aram also were subdued by Moses and the people of Cush, and
also gave their usual tax.
47. And Moses brought Aram and the children of the east under
subjection to the children of Cush, and Moses and all the people
who were with him, turned to the land of Cush.
48. And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of
Cush, and the Lord was with him, and all the children of Cush were
afraid of him.

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1. In the end of years died Saul king of Edom, and Baal Chanan the son
of Achbor reigned in his place.
2. In the sixteenth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Baal Chanan
the son of Achbor reigned in the land of Edom over all the children
of Edom for thirty-eight years.
3. In his days Moab rebelled against the power of Edom, having been
under Edom since the days of Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote them
and Midian, and brought Moab under subjection to Edom.
4. And when Baal Chanan the son of Achbor reigned over Edom, all the
children of Moab withdrew their allegiance from Edom.
5. And Angeas king of Africa died in those days, and Azdrubal his son
reigned in his stead.
6. And in those days died Janeas king of the children of Chittim, and
they buried him in his temple which he had built for himself in the
plain of Canopia for a residence, and Latinus reigned in his stead.
7. In the twenty-second year of the reign of Moses over the children
of Cush, Latinus reigned over the children of Chittim forty-five
years.
8. And he also built for himself a great and mighty tower, and he
built therein an elegant temple for his residence, to conduct his
government, as was the custom.
9. In the third year of his reign he caused a proclamation to be made
to all his skilful men, who made many ships for him.
10. And Latinus assembled all his forces, and they came in ships, and
went therein to fight with Azdrubal son of Angeas king of Africa,
and they came to Africa and engaged in battle with Azdrubal and his
army.
11. And Latinus prevailed over Azdrubal, and Latinus took from Azdrubal
the aqueduct which his father had brought from the children of
Chittim, when he took Janiah the daughter of Uzi for a wife, so
Latinus overthrew the bridge of the aqueduct, and smote the whole
army of Azdrubal a severe blow.
12. And the remaining strong men of Azdrubal strengthened themselves,
and their hearts were filled with envy, and they courted death, and
again engaged in battle with Latinus king of Chittim.
13. And the battle was severe upon all the men of Africa, and they all
fell wounded before Latinus and his people, and Azdrubal the king
also fell in that battle.
14. And the king Azdrubal had a very beautiful daughter, whose name was
Ushpezena, and all the men of Africa embroidered her likeness on
their garments, on account of her great beauty and comely
appearance.
15. And the men of Latinus saw Ushpezena, the daughter of Azdrubal, and
praised her unto Latinus their king.
16. And Latinus ordered her to be brought to him, and Latinus took
Ushpezena for a wife, and he turned back on his way to Chittim.
17. And it was after the death of Azdrubal son of Angeas, when Latinus
had turned back to his land from the battle, that all the
inhabitants of Africa rose up and took Anibal the son of Angeas,
the younger brother of Azdrubal, and made him king instead at his
brother over the whole land at Africa.
18. And when he reigned, he resolved to go to Chittim to fight with the
children of Chittim, to avenge the cause of Azdrubal his brother,
and the cause of the inhabitants of Africa, and he did so.
19. And he made many ships, and he came therein with his whole army,
and he went to Chittim.
20. So Anibal fought with the children of Chittim, and the children of
Chittim fell wounded before Anibal and his army, and Anibal avenged
his brother’s cause.
21. And Anibal continued the war for eighteen years with the children
of Chittim, and Anibal dwelt in the land of Chittim and encamped
there for a long time.
22. And Anibal smote the children of Chittim very severely, and he slew
their great men and princes, and of the rest of the people he smote
about eighty thousand men.
23. And at the end of days and years, Anibal returned to his land of
Africa, and he reigned securely in the place of Azdrubal his
brother.

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1. At that time, in the hundred and eightieth year of the Israelites
going down into Egypt, there went forth from Egypt valiant men,
thirty thousand on foot, from the children of Israel, who were all
of the tribe of Joseph, of the children of Ephraim the son of
Joseph.
2. For they said the period was completed which the Lord had appointed
to the children of Israel in the times of old, which he had spoken
to Abraham.
3. And these men girded themselves, and they put each man his sword at
his side, and every man his armor upon him, and they trusted to
their strength, and they went out together from Egypt with a mighty
hand.
4. But they brought no provision for the road, only silver and gold,
not even bread for that day did they bring in their hands, for they
thought of getting their provision for pay from the Philistines,
and if not they would take it by force.
5. And these men were very mighty and valiant men, one man could
pursue a thousand and two could rout ten thousand, so they trusted
to their strength and went together as they were.
6. And they directed their course toward the land of Gath, and they
went down and found the shepherds of Gath feeding the cattle of the
children of Gath.
7. And they said to the shepherds, Give us some of the sheep for pay,
that we may eat, for we are hungry, for we have eaten no bread this
day.
8. And the shepherds said, Are they our sheep or cattle that we should
give them to you even for pay? so the children of Ephraim
approached to take them by force.
9. And the shepherds of Gath shouted over them that their cry was
heard at a distance, so all the children of Gath went out to them.
10. And when the children of Gath saw the evil doings of the children
of Ephraim, they returned and assembled the men of Gath, and they
put on each man his armor, and came forth to the children of
Ephraim for battle.
11. And they engaged with them in the valley of Gath, and the battle
was severe, and they smote from each other a great many on that
day.
12. And on the second day the children of Gath sent to all the cities
of the Philistines that they should come to their help, saying,
13. Come up unto us and help us, that we may smite the children of
Ephraim who have come forth from Egypt to take our cattle, and to
fight against us without cause.
14. Now the souls of the children of Ephraim were exhausted with hunger
and thirst, for they had eaten no bread for three days. And forty
thousand men went forth from the cities of the Philistines to the
assistance of the men of Gath.
15. And these men were engaged in battle with the children of Ephraim,
and the Lord delivered the children of Ephraim into the hands of
the Philistines.
16. And they smote all the children of Ephraim, all who had gone forth
from Egypt, none were remaining but ten men who had run away from
the engagement.
17. For this evil was from the Lord against the children of Ephraim,
for they transgressed the word of the Lord in going forth from
Egypt, before the period had arrived which the Lord in the days of
old had appointed to Israel.
18. And of the Philistines also there fell a great many, about twenty
thousand men, and their brethren carried them and buried them in
their cities.
19. And the slain of the children of Ephraim remained forsaken in the
valley of Gath for many days and years, and were not brought to
burial, and the valley was filled with men’s bones.
20. And the men who had escaped from the battle came to Egypt, and told
all the children of Israel all that had befallen them.
21. And their father Ephraim mourned over them for many days, and his
brethren came to console him.
22. And he came unto his wife and she bare a son, and he called his
name Beriah, for she was unfortunate in his house.

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1. And Moses the son of Amram was still king in the land of Cush in
those days, and he prospered in his kingdom, and he conducted the
government of the children of Cush in justice, in righteousness,
and integrity.
2. And all the children of Cush loved Moses all the days that he
reigned over them, and all the inhabitants of the land of Cush were
greatly afraid of him.
3. And in the fortieth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Moses was
sitting on the royal throne whilst Adoniah the queen was before
him, and all the nobles were sitting around him.
4. And Adoniah the queen said before the king and the princes, What is
this thing which you, the children of Cush, have done for this long
time?
5. Surely you know that for forty years that this man has reigned over
Cush he has not approached me, nor has he served the gods of the
children of Cush.
6. Now therefore hear, O ye children of Cush, and let this man no more
reign over you as he is not of our flesh.
7. Behold Menacrus my son is grown up, let him reign over you, for it
is better for you to serve the son of your lord, than to serve a
stranger, slave of the king of Egypt.
8. And all the people and nobles of the children of Cush heard the
words which Adoniah the queen had spoken in their ears.
9. And all the people were preparing until the evening, and in the
morning they rose up early and made Menacrus, son of Kikianus, king
over them.
10. And all the children of Cush were afraid to stretch forth their
hand against Moses, for the Lord was with Moses, and the children
of Cush remembered the oath which they swore unto Moses, therefore
they did no harm to him.
11. But the children of Cush gave many presents to Moses, and sent him
from them with great honor.
12. So Moses went forth from the land of Cush, and went home and ceased
to reign over Cush, and Moses was sixty-six years old when he went
out of the land of Cush, for the thing was from the Lord, for the
period had arrived which he had appointed in the days of old, to
bring forth Israel from the affliction of the children of Ham.
13. So Moses went to Midian, for he was afraid to return to Egypt on
account of Pharaoh, and he went and sat at a well of water in
Midian.
14. And the seven daughters of Reuel the Midianite went out to feed
their father’s flock.
15. And they came to the well and drew water to water their father’s
flock.
16. So the shepherds of Midian came and drove them away, and Moses rose
up and helped them and watered the flock.
17. And they came home to their father Reuel, and told him what Moses
did for them.
18. And they said, An Egyptian man has delivered us from the hands of
the shepherds, he drew up water for us and watered the flock.
19. And Reuel said to his daughters, And where is he? wherefore have
you left the man?
20. And Reuel sent for him and fetched him and brought him home, and he
ate bread with him.
21. And Moses related to Reuel that he had fled from Egypt and that he
reigned forty years over Cush, and that they afterward had taken
the government from him, and had sent him away in peace with honor
and with presents.
22. And when Reuel had heard the words of Moses, Reuel said within
himself, I will put this man into the prison house, whereby I shall
conciliate the children of Cush, for he has fled from them.
23. And they took and put him into the prison house, and Moses was in
prison ten years, and whilst Moses was in the prison house,
Zipporah the daughter of Reuel took pity over him, and supported
him with bread and water all the time.
24. And all the children of Israel were yet in the land of Egypt
serving the Egyptians in all manner of hard work, and the hand of
Egypt continued in severity over the children of Israel in those
days.
25. At that time the Lord smote Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he afflicted
with the plague of leprosy from the sole of his foot to the crown
of his head; owing to the cruel treatment of the children of Israel
was this plague at that time from the Lord upon Pharaoh king of
Egypt.
26. For the Lord had hearkened to the prayer of his people the children
of Israel, and their cry reached him on account of their hard work.
27. Still his anger did not turn from them, and the hand of Pharaoh was
still stretched out against the children of Israel, and Pharaoh
hardened his neck before the Lord, and he increased his yoke over
the children of Israel, and embittered their lives with all manner
of hard work.
28. And when the Lord had inflicted the plague upon Pharaoh king of
Egypt, he asked his wise men and sorcerers to cure him.
29. And his wise men and sorcerers said unto him, That if the blood of
little children were put into the wounds he would be healed.
30. And Pharaoh hearkened to them, and sent his ministers to Goshen to
the children of Israel to take their little children.
31. And Pharaoh’s ministers went and took the infants of the children
of Israel from the bosoms of their mothers by force, and they
brought them to Pharaoh daily, a child each day, and the physicians
killed them and applied them to the plague; thus did they all the
days.
32. And the number of the children which Pharaoh slew was three hundred
and seventy-five.
33. But the Lord hearkened not to the physicians of the king of Egypt,
and the plague went on increasing mightily.
34. And Pharaoh was ten years afflicted with that plague, still the
heart of Pharaoh was more hardened against the children of Israel.
35. And at the end of ten years the Lord continued to afflict Pharaoh
with destructive plagues.
36. And the Lord smote him with a bad tumor and sickness at the
stomach, and that plague turned to a severe boil.
37. At that time the two ministers of Pharaoh came from the land of
Goshen where all the children of Israel were, and went to the house
of Pharaoh and said to him, We have seen the children of Israel
slacken in their work and negligent in their labor.
38. And when Pharaoh heard the words of his ministers, his anger was
kindled against the children of Israel exceedingly, for he was
greatly grieved at his bodily pain.
39. And he answered and said, Now that the children of Israel know that
I am ill, they turn and scoff at us, now therefore harness my
chariot for me, and I will betake myself to Goshen and will see the
scoff of the children of Israel with which they are deriding me; so
his servants harnessed the chariot for him.
40. And they took and made him ride upon a horse, for he was not able
to ride of himself;
41. And he took with him ten horsemen and ten footmen, and went to the
children of Israel to Goshen.
42. And when they had come to the border of Egypt, the king’s horse
passed into a narrow place, elevated in the hollow part of the
vineyard, fenced on both sides, the low, plain country being on the
other side.
43. And the horses ran rapidly in that place and pressed each other,
and the other horses pressed the king’s horse.
44. And the king’s horse fell into the low plain whilst the king was
riding upon it, and when he fell the chariot turned over the king’s
face and the horse lay upon the king, and the king cried out, for
his flesh was very sore.
45. And the flesh of the king was torn from him, and his bones were
broken and he could not ride, for this thing was from the Lord to
him, for the Lord had heard the cries of his people the children of
Israel and their affliction.
46. And his servants carried him upon their shoulders, a little at a
time, and they brought him back to Egypt, and the horsemen who were
with him came also back to Egypt.
47. And they placed him in his bed, and the king knew that his end was
come to die, so Aparanith the queen his wife came and cried before
the king, and the king wept a great weeping with her.
48. And all his nobles and servants came on that day and saw the king
in that affliction, and wept a great weeping with him.
49. And the princes of the king and all his counselors advised the king
to cause one to reign in his stead in the land, whomsoever he
should choose from his sons.
50. And the king had three sons and two daughters which Aparanith the
queen his wife had borne to him, besides the king’s children of
concubines.
51. And these were their names, the firstborn Othri, the second Adikam,
and the third Morion, and their sisters, the name of the elder
Bathia and of the other Acuzi.
52. And Othri the first born of the king was an idiot, precipitate and
hurried in his words.
53. But Adikam was a cunning and wise man and knowing in all the wisdom
of Egypt, but of unseemly aspect, thick in flesh, and very short in
stature; his height was one cubit.
54. And when the king saw Adikam his son intelligent and wise in all
things, the king resolved that he should be king in his stead after
his death.
55. And he took for him a wife Gedudah daughter of Abilot, and he was
ten years old, and she bare unto him four sons.
56. And he afterward went and took three wives and begat eight sons and
three daughters.
57. And the disorder greatly prevailed over the king, and his flesh
stank like the flesh of a carcass cast upon the field in summer
time, during the heat of the sun.
58. And when the king saw that his sickness had greatly strengthened
itself over him, he ordered his son Adikam to be brought to him,
and they made him king over the land in his place.
59. And at the end of three years, the king died, in shame, disgrace,
and disgust, and his servants carried him and buried him in the
sepulcher of the kings of Egypt in Zoan Mizraim.
60. But they embalmed him not as was usual with kings, for his flesh
was putrid, and they could not approach to embalm him on account of
the stench, so they buried him in haste.
61. For this evil was from the Lord to him, for the Lord had requited
him evil for the evil which in his days he had done to Israel.
62. And he died with terror and with shame, and his son Adikam reigned
in his place.

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1. Adikam was twenty years old when he reigned over Egypt, he reigned
four years.
2. In the two hundred and sixth year of Israel’s going down to Egypt
did Adikam reign over Egypt, but he continued not so long in his
reign over Egypt as his fathers had continued their reigns.
3. For Melol his father reigned ninety-four years in Egypt, but he was
ten years sick and died, for he had been wicked before the Lord.
4. And all the Egyptians called the name of Adikam Pharaoh like the
name of his fathers, as was their custom to do in Egypt.
5. And all the wise men of Pharaoh called the name of Adikam Ahuz, for
short is called Ahuz in the Egyptian language.
6. And Adikam was exceedingly ugly, and he was a cubit and a span and
he had a great beard which reached to the soles of his feet.
7. And Pharaoh sat upon his father’s throne to reign over Egypt, and
he conducted the government of Egypt in his wisdom.
8. And whilst he reigned he exceeded his father and all the preceding
kings in wickedness, and he increased his yoke over the children of
Israel.
9. And he went with his servants to Goshen to the children of Israel,
and he strengthened the labor over them and he said unto them,
Complete your work, each day’s task, and let not your hands slacken
from our work from this day forward as you did in the days of my
father.
10. And he placed officers over them from amongst the children of
Israel, and over these officers he placed taskmasters from amongst
his servants.
11. And he placed over them a measure of bricks for them to do
according to that number, day by day, and he turned back and went
to Egypt.
12. At that time the task-masters of Pharaoh ordered the officers of
the children of Israel according to the command of Pharaoh, saying,
13. Thus says Pharaoh, Do your work each day, and finish your task, and
observe the daily measure of bricks; diminish not anything.
14. And it shall come to pass that if you are deficient in your daily
bricks, I will put your young children in their stead.
15. And the task-masters of Egypt did so in those days as Pharaoh had
ordered them.
16. And whenever any deficiency was found in the children of Israel’s
measure of their daily bricks, the task-masters of Pharaoh would go
to the wives of the children of Israel and take infants of the
children of Israel to the number of bricks deficient, they would
take them by force from their mother’s laps, and put them in the
building instead of the bricks;
17. Whilst their fathers and mothers were crying over them and weeping
when they heard the weeping voices of their infants in the wall of
the building.
18. And the task-masters prevailed over Israel, that the Israelites
should place their children in the building, so that a man placed
his son in the wall and put mortar over him, whilst his eyes wept
over him, and his tears ran down upon his child.
19. And the task-masters of Egypt did so to the babes of Israel for
many days, and no one pitied or had compassion over the babes of
the children of Israel.
20. And the number of all the children killed in the building was two
hundred and seventy, some whom they had built upon instead of the
bricks which had been left deficient by their fathers, and some
whom they had drawn out dead from the building.
21. And the labor imposed upon the children of Israel in the days of
Adikam exceeded in hardship that which they performed in the days
of his father.
22. And the children of Israel sighed every day on account of their
heavy work, for they had said to themselves, Behold when Pharaoh
shall die, his son will rise up and lighten our work!
23. But they increased the latter work more than the former, and the
children of Israel sighed at this and their cry ascended to God on
account of their labor.
24. And God heard the voice of the children of Israel and their cry, in
those days, and God remembered to them his covenant which he had
made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
25. And God saw the burden of the children of Israel, and their heavy
work in those days, and he determined to deliver them.
26. And Moses the son of Amram was still confined in the dungeon in
those days, in the house of Reuel the Midianite, and Zipporah the
daughter of Reuel did support him with food secretly day by day.
27. And Moses was confined in the dungeon in the house of Reuel for ten
years.
28. And at the end of ten years which was the first year of the reign
of Pharaoh over Egypt, in the place of his father,
29. Zipporah said to her father Reuel, No person inquires or seeks
after the Hebrew man, whom thou didst bind in prison now ten years.
30. Now therefore, if it seem good in thy sight, let us send and see
whether he is living or dead, but her father knew not that she had
supported him.
31. And Reuel her father answered and said to her, Has ever such a
thing happened that a man should be shut up in a prison without
food for ten years, and that he should live?
32. And Zipporah answered her father, saying, Surely thou hast heard
that the God of the Hebrews is great and awful, and does wonders
for them at all times.
33. He it was who delivered Abraham from Ur of the Chaldeans, and Isaac
from the sword of his father, and Jacob from the angel of the Lord
who wrestled with him at the ford of Jabbuk.
34. Also with this man has he done many things, he delivered him from
the river in Egypt and from the sword of Pharaoh, and from the
children of Cush, so also can he deliver him from famine and make
him live.
35. And the thing seemed good in the sight of Reuel, and he did
according to the word of his daughter, and sent to the dungeon to
ascertain what became of Moses.
36. And he saw, and behold the man Moses was living in the dungeon,
standing upon his feet, praising and praying to the God of his
ancestors.
37. And Reuel commanded Moses to be brought out of the dungeon, so they
shaved him and he changed his prison garments and ate bread.
38. And afterward Moses went into the garden of Reuel which was behind
the house, and he there prayed to the Lord his God, who had done
mighty wonders for him.
39. And it was that whilst he prayed he looked opposite to him, and
behold a sapphire stick was placed in the ground, which was planted
in the midst of the garden.
40. And he approached the stick and he looked, and behold the name of
the Lord God of hosts was engraved thereon, written and developed
upon the stick.
41. And he read it and stretched forth his hand and he plucked it like
a forest tree from the thicket, and the stick was in his hand.
42. And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were
performed, after he had created heaven and earth, and all the host
of them, seas, rivers and all their fishes.
43. And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden, he took the
stick in his hand and went and tilled the ground from which he was
taken.
44. And the stick came down to Noah and was given to Shem and his
descendants, until it came into the hand of Abraham the Hebrew.
45. And when Abraham had given all he had to his son Isaac, he also
gave to him this stick.
46. And when Jacob had fled to Padan-aram, he took it into his hand,
and when he returned to his father he had not left it behind him.
47. Also when he went down to Egypt he took it into his hand and gave
it to Joseph, one portion above his brethren, for Jacob had taken
it by force from his brother Esau.
48. And after the death of Joseph, the nobles of Egypt came into the
house of Joseph, and the stick came into the hand of Reuel the
Midianite, and when he went out of Egypt, he took it in his hand
and planted it in his garden.
49. And all the mighty men of the Kinites tried to pluck it when they
endeavored to get Zipporah his daughter, but they were
unsuccessful.
50. So that stick remained planted in the garden of Reuel, until he
came who had a right to it and took it.
51. And when Reuel saw the stick in the hand of Moses, he wondered at
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1. At that time died Baal Channan son of Achbor, king of Edom, and was
buried in his house in the land of Edom.
2. And after his death the children of Esau sent to the land of Edom,
and took from there a man who was in Edom, whose name was Hadad,
and they made him king over them in the place of Baal Channan,
their king.
3. And Hadad reigned over the children of Edom forty-eight years.
4. And when he reigned he resolved to fight against the children of
Moab, to bring them under the power of the children of Esau as they
were before, but he was not able, because the children of Moab
heard this thing, and they rose up and hastened to elect a king
over them from amongst their brethren.
5. And they afterward gathered together a great people, and sent to
the children of Ammon their brethren for help to fight against
Hadad king of Edom.
6. And Hadad heard the thing which the children of Moab had done, and
was greatly afraid of them, and refrained from fighting against
them.
7. In those days Moses, the son of Amram, in Midian, took Zipporah,
the daughter of Reuel the Midianite, for a wife.
8. And Zipporah walked in the ways of the daughters of Jacob, she was
nothing short of the righteousness of Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and
Leah.
9. And Zipporah conceived and bare a son and he called his name
Gershom, for he said, I was a stranger in a foreign land; but he
circumcised not his foreskin, at the command of Reuel his
father-in-law.
10. And she conceived again and bare a son, but circumcised his
foreskin, and called his name Eliezer, for Moses said, Because the
God of my fathers was my help, and delivered me from the sword of
Pharaoh.
11. And Pharaoh king of Egypt greatly increased the labor of the
children of Israel in those days, and continued to make his yoke
heavier upon the children of Israel.
12. And he ordered a proclamation to be made in Egypt, saying, Give no
more straw to the people to make bricks with, let them go and
gather themselves straw as they can find it.
13. Also the tale of bricks which they shall make let them give each
day, and diminish nothing from them, for they are idle in their
work.
14. And the children of Israel heard this, and they mourned and sighed,
and they cried unto the Lord on account of the bitterness of their
souls.
15. And the Lord heard the cries of the children of Israel, and saw the
oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them.
16. And the Lord was jealous of his people and his inheritance, and
heard their voice, and he resolved to take them out of the
affliction of Egypt, to give them the land of Canaan for a
possession.

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1. And in those days Moses was feeding the flock of Reuel the
Midianite his father-in-law, beyond the wilderness of Sin, and the
stick which he took from his father-in-law was in his hand.
2. And it came to pass one day that a kid of goats strayed from the
flock, and Moses pursued it and it came to the mountain of God to
Horeb.
3. And when he came to Horeb, the Lord appeared there unto him in the
bush, and he found the bush burning with fire, but the fire had no
power over the bush to consume it.
4. And Moses was greatly astonished at this sight, wherefore the bush
was not consumed, and he approached to see this mighty thing, and
the Lord called unto Moses out of the fire and commanded him to go
down to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to send the children of
Israel from his service.
5. And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, return to Egypt, for all those
men who sought thy life are dead, and thou shalt speak unto Pharaoh
to send forth the children of Israel from his land.
6. And the Lord showed him to do signs and wonders in Egypt before the
eyes of Pharaoh and the eyes of his subjects, in order that they
might believe that the Lord had sent him.
7. And Moses hearkened to all that the Lord had commanded him, and he
returned to his father-in-law and told him the thing, and Reuel
said to him, Go in peace.
8. And Moses rose up to go to Egypt, and he took his wife and sons
with him, and he was at an inn in the road, and an angel of God
came down, and sought an occasion against him.
9. And he wished to kill him on account of his first born son, because
he had not circumcised him, and had transgressed the covenant which
the Lord had made with Abraham.
10. For Moses had hearkened to the words of his father-in-law which he
had spoken to him, not to circumcise his first born son, therefore
he circumcised him not.
11. And Zipporah saw the angel of the Lord seeking an occasion against
Moses, and she knew that this thing was owing to his not having
circumcised her son Gershom.
12. And Zipporah hastened and took of the sharp rock stones that were
there, and she circumcised her son, and delivered her husband and
her son from the hand of the angel of the Lord.
13. And Aaron the son of Amram, the brother of Moses, was in Egypt
walking at the river side on that day.
14. And the Lord appeared to him in that place, and he said to him, Go
now toward Moses in the wilderness, and he went and met him in the
mountain of God, and he kissed him.
15. And Aaron lifted up his eyes, and saw Zipporah the wife of Moses
and her children, and he said unto Moses, Who are these unto thee?
16. And Moses said unto him, They are my wife and sons, which God gave
to me in Midian; and the thing grieved Aaron on account of the
woman and her children.
17. And Aaron said to Moses, Send away the woman and her children that
they may go to her father’s house, and Moses hearkened to the words
of Aaron, and did so.
18. And Zipporah returned with her children, and they went to the house
of Reuel, and remained there until the time arrived when the Lord
had visited his people, and brought them forth from Egypt from the
hand at Pharaoh.
19. And Moses and Aaron came to Egypt to the community of the children
of Israel, and they spoke to them all the words of the Lord, and
the people rejoiced an exceeding great rejoicing.
20. And Moses and Aaron rose up early on the next day, and they went to
the house of Pharaoh, and they took in their hands the stick of
God.
21. And when they came to the king’s gate, two young lions were
confined there with iron instruments, and no person went out or
came in from before them, unless those whom the king ordered to
come, when the conjurors came and withdrew the lions by their
incantations, and this brought them to the king.
22. And Moses hastened and lifted up the stick upon the lions, and he
loosed them, and Moses and Aaron came into the king’s house.
23. The lions also came with them in joy, and they followed them and
rejoiced as a dog rejoices over his master when he comes from the
field.
24. And when Pharaoh saw this thing he was astonished at it, and he was
greatly terrified at the report, for their appearance was like the
appearance of the children of God.
25. And Pharaoh said to Moses, What do you require? and they answered
him, saying, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent us to thee, to
say, Send forth my people that they may serve me.
26. And when Pharaoh heard their words he was greatly terrified before
them, and he said to them, Go today and come back to me tomorrow,
and they did according to the word of the king.
27. And when they had gone Pharaoh sent for Balaam the magician and to
Jannes and Jambres his sons, and to all the magicians and conjurors
and counsellors which belonged to the king, and they all came and
sat before the king.
28. And the king told them all the words which Moses and his brother
Aaron had spoken to him, and the magicians said to the king, But
how came the men to thee, on account of the lions which were
confined at the gate?
29. And the king said, Because they lifted up their rod against the
lions and loosed them, and came to me, and the lions also rejoiced
at them as a dog rejoices to meet his master.
30. And Balaam the son of Beor the magician answered the king, saying,
These are none else than magicians like ourselves.
31. Now therefore send for them, and let them come and we will try
them, and the king did so.
32. And in the morning Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron to come before
the king, and they took the rod of God, and came to the king and
spoke to him, saying,
33. Thus said the Lord God of the Hebrews, Send my people that they may
serve me.
34. And the king said to them, But who will believe you that you are
the messengers of God and that you come to me by his order?
35. Now therefore give a wonder or sign in this matter, and then the
words which you speak will be believed.
36. And Aaron hastened and threw the rod out of his hand before Pharaoh
and before his servants, and the rod turned into a serpent.
37. And the sorcerers saw this and they cast each man his rod upon the
ground and they became serpents.
38. And the serpent of Aaron’s rod lifted up its head and opened its
mouth to swallow the rods of the magicians.
39. And Balaam the magician answered and said, This thing has been from
the days of old, that a serpent should swallow its fellow, and that
living things devour each other.
40. Now therefore restore it to a rod as it was at first, and we will
also restore our rods as they were at first, and if thy rod shall
swallow our rods, then shall we know that the spirit of God is in
thee, and if not, thou art only an artificer like unto ourselves.
41. And Aaron hastened and stretched forth his hand and caught hold of
the serpent’s tail and it became a rod in his hand, and the
sorcerers did the like with their rods, and they got hold, each man
of the tail of his serpent, and they became rods as at first.
42. And when they were restored to rods, the rod of Aaron swallowed up
their rods.
43. And when the king saw this thing, he ordered the book of records
that related to the kings of Egypt, to be brought, and they brought
the book of records, the chronicles of the kings of Egypt, in which
all the idols of Egypt were inscribed, for they thought of finding
therein the name of Jehovah, but they found it not.
44. And Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron, Behold I have not found the
name of your God written in this book, and his name I know not.
45. And the counsellors and wise men answered the king, We have heard
that the God of the Hebrews is a son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings.
46. And Pharaoh turned to Moses and Aaron and said to them, I know not
the Lord whom you have declared, neither will I send his people.
47. And they answered and said to the king, The Lord God of Gods is his
name, and he proclaimed his name over us from the days of our
ancestors, and sent us, saying, Go to Pharaoh and say unto him,
Send my people that they may serve me.
48. Now therefore send us, that we may take a journey for three days in
the wilderness, and there may sacrifice to him, for from the days
of our going down to Egypt, he has not taken from our hands either
burnt offering, oblation or sacrifice, and if thou wilt not send
us, his anger will be kindled against thee, and he will smite Egypt
either with the plague or with the sword.
49. And Pharaoh said to them, Tell me now his power and his might; and
they said to him, He created the heaven and the earth, the seas and
all their fishes, he formed the light, created the darkness, caused
rain upon the earth and watered it, and made the herbage and grass
to sprout, he created man and beast and the animals of the forest,
the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and by his mouth they
live and die.
50. Surely he created thee in thy mother’s womb, and put into thee the
breath of life, and reared thee and placed thee upon the royal
throne of Egypt, and he will take thy breath and soul from thee,
and return thee to the ground whence thou wast taken.
51. And the anger of the king was kindled at their words, and he said
to them, But who amongst all the Gods of nations can do this? my
river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
52. And he drove them from him, and he ordered the labor upon Israel to
be more severe than it was yesterday and before.
53. And Moses and Aaron went out from the king’s presence, and they saw
the children of Israel in an evil condition for the task-masters
had made their labor exceedingly heavy.
54. And Moses returned to the Lord and said, Why hast thou ill treated
thy people? for since I came to speak to Pharaoh what thou didst
send me for, he has exceedingly ill used the children of Israel.
55. And the Lord said to Moses, Behold thou wilt see that with an
outstretched hand and heavy plagues, Pharaoh will send the children
of Israel from his land.
56. And Moses and Aaron dwelt amongst their brethren the children of
Israel in Egypt.
57. And as for the children of Israel the Egyptians embittered their
lives, with the heavy work which they imposed upon them.

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1. And at the end of two years, the Lord again sent Moses to Pharaoh
to bring forth the children of Israel, and to send them out of the
land of Egypt.
2. And Moses went and came to the house of Pharaoh, and he spoke to
him the words of the Lord who had sent him, but Pharaoh would not
hearken to the voice of the Lord, and God roused his might in Egypt
upon Pharaoh and his subjects, and God smote Pharaoh and his people
with very great and sore plagues.
3. And the Lord sent by the hand of Aaron and turned all the waters of
Egypt into blood, with all their streams and rivers.
4. And when an Egyptian came to drink and draw water, he looked into
his pitcher, and behold all the water was turned into blood; and
when he came to drink from his cup the water in the cup became
blood.
5. And when a woman kneaded her dough and cooked her victuals, their
appearance was turned to that of blood.
6. And the Lord sent again and caused all their waters to bring forth
frogs, and all the frogs came into the houses of the Egyptians.
7. And when the Egyptians drank, their bellies were filled with frogs
and they danced in their bellies as they dance when in the river.
8. And all their drinking water and cooking water turned to frogs,
also when they lay in their beds their perspiration bred frogs.
9. Notwithstanding all this the anger of the Lord did not turn from
them, and his hand was stretched out against all the Egyptians to
smite them with every heavy plague.
10. And he sent and smote their dust to lice, and the lice became in
Egypt to the height of two cubits upon the earth.
11. The lice were also very numerous, in the flesh of man and beast, in
all the inhabitants of Egypt, also upon the king and queen the Lord
sent the lice, and it grieved Egypt exceedingly on account of the
lice.
12. Notwithstanding this, the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and
his hand was still stretched out over Egypt.
13. And the Lord sent all kinds of beasts of the field into Egypt, and
they came and destroyed all Egypt, man and beast, and trees, and
all things that were in Egypt.
14. And the Lord sent fiery serpents, scorpions, mice, weasels, toads,
together with others creeping in dust.
15. Flies, hornets, fleas, bugs and gnats, each swarm according to its
kind.
16. And all reptiles and winged animals according to their kind came to
Egypt and grieved the Egyptians exceedingly.
17. And the fleas and flies came into the eyes and ears of the
Egyptians.
18. And the hornet came upon them and drove them away, and they removed
from it into their inner rooms, and it pursued them.
19. And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm of
animals, they locked their doors after them, and God ordered the
Sulanuth which was in the sea, to come up and go into Egypt.
20. And she had long arms, ten cubits in length of the cubit of a man.
21. And she went upon the roofs and uncovered the raftering and
flooring and cut them, and stretched forth her arm into the house
and removed the lock and the bolt, and opened the houses of Egypt.
22. Afterward came the swarm of animals into the houses of Egypt, and
the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians, and it grieved them
exceedingly.
23. Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away from
the Egyptians, and his hand was yet stretched forth against them.
24. And God sent the pestilence, and the pestilence pervaded Egypt, in
the horses and asses, and in the camels, in herds of oxen and sheep
and in man.
25. And when the Egyptians rose up early in the morning to take their
cattle to pasture they found all their cattle dead.
26. And there remained of the cattle of the Egyptians only one in ten,
and of the cattle belonging to Israel in Goshen not one died.
27. And God sent a burning inflammation in the flesh of the Egyptians,
which burst their skins, and it became a severe itch in all the
Egyptians from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their
heads.
28. And many boils were in their flesh, that their flesh wasted away
until they became rotten and putrid.
29. Notwithstanding this the anger of the Lord did not turn away, and
his hand was still stretched out over all Egypt.
30. And the Lord sent a very heavy hail, which smote their vines and
broke their fruit trees and dried them up that they fell upon them.
31. Also every green herb became dry and perished, for a mingling fire
descended amidst the hail, therefore the hail and the fire consumed
all things.
32. Also men and beasts that were found abroad perished of the flames
of fire and of the hail, and all the young lions were exhausted.
33. And the Lord sent and brought numerous locusts into Egypt, the
Chasel, Salom, Chargol, and Chagole, locusts each of its kind,
which devoured all that the hail had left remaining.
34. Then the Egyptians rejoiced at the locusts, although they consumed
the produce of the field, and they caught them in abundance and
salted them for food.
35. And the Lord turned a mighty wind of the sea which took away all
the locusts, even those that were salted, and thrust them into the
Red Sea; not one locust remained within the boundaries of Egypt.
36. And God sent darkness upon Egypt, that the whole land of Egypt and
Pathros became dark for three days, so that a man could not see his
hand when he lifted it to his mouth.
37. At that time died many of the people of Israel who had rebelled
against the Lord and who would not hearken to Moses and Aaron, and
believed not in them that God had sent them.
38. And who had said, We will not go forth from Egypt lest we perish
with hunger in a desolate wilderness, and who would not hearken to
the voice of Moses.
39. And the Lord plagued them in the three days of darkness, and the
Israelites buried them in those days, without the Egyptians knowing
of them or rejoicing over them.
40. And the darkness was very great in Egypt for three days, and any
person who was standing when the darkness came, remained standing
in his place, and he that was sitting remained sitting, and he that
was lying continued lying in the same state, and he that was
walking remained sitting upon the ground in the same spot; and this
thing happened to all the Egyptians, until the darkness had passed
away.
41. And the days of darkness passed away, and the Lord sent Moses and
Aaron to the children of Israel, saying, Celebrate your feast and
make your Passover, for behold I come in the midst of the night
amongst all the Egyptians, and I will smite all their first born,
from the first born of a man to the first born of a beast, and when
I see your Passover, I will pass over you.
42. And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had
commanded Moses and Aaron, thus did they in that night.
43. And it came to pass in the middle of the night, that the Lord went
forth in the midst of Egypt, and smote all the first born of the
Egyptians, from the first born of man to the first born of beast.
44. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all
the Egyptians, and there was a great cry throughout Egypt in that
night, for there was not a house in which there was not a corpse.
45. Also the likenesses of the first born of Egypt, which were carved
in the walls at their houses, were destroyed and fell to the
ground.
46. Even the bones of their first born who had died before this and
whom they had buried in their houses, were raked up by the dogs of
Egypt on that night and dragged before the Egyptians and cast
before them.
47. And all the Egyptians saw this evil which had suddenly come upon
them, and all the Egyptians cried out with a loud voice.
48. And all the families of Egypt wept upon that night, each man for
his son and each man for his daughter, being the first born, and
the tumult of Egypt was heard at a distance on that night.
49. And Bathia the daughter of Pharaoh went forth with the king on that
night to seek Moses and Aaron in their houses, and they found them
in their houses, eating and drinking and rejoicing with all Israel.
50. And Bathia said to Moses, Is this the reward for the good which I
have done to thee, who have reared thee and stretched thee out, and
thou hast brought this evil upon me and my father’s house?
51. And Moses said to her, Surely ten plagues did the Lord bring upon
Egypt; did any evil accrue to thee from any of them? did one of
them affect thee? and she said, No.
52. And Moses said to her, Although thou art the first born to thy
mother, thou shalt not die, and no evil shall reach thee in the
midst of Egypt.
53. And she said, What advantage is it to me, when I see the king, my
brother, and all his household and subjects in this evil, whose
first born perish with all the first born of Egypt?
54. And Moses said to her, Surely thy brother and his household, and
subjects, the families of Egypt, would not hearken to the words of
the Lord, therefore did this evil come upon them.
55. And Pharaoh king of Egypt approached Moses and Aaron, and some of
the children of Israel who were with them in that place, and he
prayed to them, saying,
56. Rise up and take your brethren, all the children of Israel who are
in the land, with their sheep and oxen, and all belonging to them,
they shall leave nothing remaining, only pray for me to the Lord
your God.
57. And Moses said to Pharaoh, Behold though thou art thy mother’s
first born, yet fear not, for thou wilt not die, for the Lord has
commanded that thou shalt live, in order to show thee his great
might and strong stretched out arm.
58. And Pharaoh ordered the children of Israel to be sent away, and all
the Egyptians strengthened themselves to send them, for they said,
We are all perishing.
59. And all the Egyptians sent the Israelites forth, with great riches,
sheep and oxen and precious things, according to the oath of the
Lord between him and our Father Abraham.
60. And the children of Israel delayed going forth at night, and when
the Egyptians came to them to bring them out, they said to them,
Are we thieves, that we should go forth at night?
61. And the children of Israel asked of the Egyptians, vessels of
silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and the children of
Israel stripped the Egyptians.
62. And Moses hastened and rose up and went to the river of Egypt, and
brought up from thence the coffin of Joseph and took it with him.
63. The children of Israel also brought up, each man his father’s
coffin with him, and each man the coffins of his tribe.

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