Book of Jasher (Sefer haYashar) 14

~204~ And these are the names of the sons of Israel who lived in Egypt following Jacob, each man and his house, all the sons of Jacob came from Egypt. The sons of Leah, Reuben and Shimon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun and Dinah their sister. and Rachel's sons, Yosef and Benjamin. And the sons of Zelpa, Leah's maidservant, Gad and Asher. And Belha's sons, Rachel, Dan, and Naftali, her maidservant. And these are their histories which were born to them in the land of Canaan, before they came from Egypt with Jacob their father. The sons of Reuven, Hanoch and Pelo Hezron and Carmi. And the sons of Shimon, Yemuel, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yachin, and Zuchar, and Shaul the son of the Canaanite. And the sons of Levi, Gershon Kehat and Marari and Yochaved their sister who was born to them in their exile from Egypt. And the sons of Judah, Ar, and Onan, and Shelah, and Peretz, and Zerach, and Ar and Onan died in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Peretz were Hezron and Hamol. And the sons of Issachar, Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron. And the sons of Zebulon, Sered, Alon, and Khalal. And the sons of Dan, senses. And the sons of Naphtali, Yachzel, Goni, Vitzer, and Shalom. And Bnei Gad, Zefion, and Hai Shuni, and Atzbon, Ari, and Erodi, and Arali. And the sons of Asher, Yamanah, and Yeshua, and Yeshua, and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel. And the sons of Binyamin, Bela and Becher and Ashbel Gera and Naaman my brother and Rosh Mofim and Hufim and Arad. And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, Manasseh and Ephraim. And every soul of the descendants of Jacob's thigh was seventy souls, those who followed their father Jacob from Egypt to live there. And Joseph and all his brothers dwelt in Egypt safely, and they ate the good of the land of Egypt all the days of Joseph's life. And Joseph lived in the land of Egypt ninety-three years, and Joseph reigned over all Egypt for eighty years. And Joseph's days drew near to death, and he sent and called his brothers and all his father's house, and they all came together and sat before him. And Joseph said to his brothers and to all his father's house, Behold, I am dead, and God commands and commands you and brings you up from this land to the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. And it was at the command of G-d to bring you up from here to the land of your fathers, and you brought up my bones from here with you. And Joseph swore to the children of Israel and their seed after them, saying, God will command you, and you have lifted up my bones from here with you. And it came to pass after that, that Joseph died in that year, which is the seventy-first year of the descent of Israel from Egypt. And Yosef was one hundred and ten years old when he died in the land of Egypt. And all his brothers and all his servants got up and embalmed Joseph as a trial, and his brothers and all the Egyptians mourned him for seventy days. And they put Yosef in a coffin, which is full of perfume and every apothecary's work, and they buried him on the edge of the tree, he is black. And his sons and all his brothers and all his father's house mourned for him for seven days.

~205~ And it came to pass after the death of Joseph, and all the Egyptians began to govern the children of Israel, in those days. And Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, who reigned under his father, took all the laws of Egypt, and led the entire kingdom of Egypt under his counsel, and reigned securely over his people. And it came to pass at the time of the year in the seventy-second year, that Israel came down from Egypt after the death of Joseph, and Zefu son of Eliphaz son of Esau fled from Egypt, he and his men, and they went. And when they came to Africa, she came to Angias, the king of Africa, and Angias received them with great honor, and made Tso the chief of his army. And he found favor in the eyes of Angias and in the eyes of his people, and he was the minister of the army of Angias, king of Africa, for many days. They expected Angias, the king of Africa, to gather all his army to go fight with the Egyptians and the sons of Jacob, and avenge his brother's revenge on them. And Angias did not want to hear that they did not expect to do this thing, because Angias knew the valor of the sons of Jacob and what they did to defeat the sons of Esau in their war. And there was a great expectation in those days in the eyes of Angias and in the eyes of all his people, and they always intended to fight the Egyptians and not Abu. And it came to pass in those days that there lived in the land of the heathens a man in the city of Potzimana, whose name was Uzzi, and the heathens had miracles for God. And the man died and he had no son but one daughter, and her name was Jania. And the girl is very beautiful, good-looking and smart, her beauty and wisdom are not seen in the whole country. And the men of Angeas king of Africa saw her, and brought her and praised her to him. And Angias sent to the Gentiles and asked her to take him as a wife, and the Gentiles begged him to give her to him as a wife. And when the angels of Angias, king of Kitim, went out to go their way, behold, the angels of Thurgus, king of Bibinto, came to Timima, for Thurgus, king of Bibinto, had also sent his angels to ask him to take Jania as his wife, for all his men praised her to him, so he sent all his servants to her. And the servants of Thurgus came to Timma, and asked Jania to take her to their king Thurgus as a wife. The pagans said to them, "We cannot give her, because Angias, the king of Africa, asked her to take him as his wife before you came, and we gave her to him." And now we cannot do this thing of taking the girl from the hand of Angias and giving her to Thurgus, because we are very afraid of Angias lest he come to war against us and destroy us, and Thurgus your lord will not be able to save us from his hand.

~206~ And when their angels heard all the words of the heathens, they turned and returned to their master and told him all the words of the heathens. And the members of the clans sent a book to Angias to say, here Thurgus sent for Jania to take him to wife and with that we sent him back. And we hear that he has gathered all his army to come to war against you, and that he intends to pass through Sardonia to fight with your brother Lucush and then he will come to fight with you. And Angias heard the words of the sectarians that they sent him in the book, and his nose became inflamed. And he arose and gathered all his army, and came to the islands of the sea by way of Sardinia to his brother Lucus, king of Sardinia. And Giblush son of Lukosh heard that his uncle Angias had come, and he went out to meet him with a heavy army and watered him and embraced him. And Giblush said to Angias, I asked you peace from my father's people when he went out with you to fight with Thurgus, and you asked him for Shimani, the leader of his army. And Angias did so and came to his brother, and his brother went out to meet him and wished him peace. And Angias from the people of Lucosh asked his brother to put his son Giblush in charge of his army, and Lucosh did so. And Angias and his brother Lucus arose and went towards Thurgus to war, and a great army and a heavy people with them. And they will come in ships, and they will come in the district of Ashtoresh. And here Thurgus came to meet them, for he had gone out to Sardonia and said to confiscate, and then he would pass from there to Angias to fight with him. And Angias and his brother Lucus met Thurgus in the valley of Canafia, and there was a very strong and enormous war between them in that place. And the war will be heavy on Lucosh, king of Sardonia, and all his army will fall, and Giblus his son will also fall in that war. And Angias his uncle commanded his servants, and they made Gibulus a golden doll and put it in it. And Angias will make another war against Thurgus, and Angias will strengthen him and kill him, and he will put all his people to the sword. Vengeance of Angias the revenge of his brother Giblush and the revenge of his brother's army of Locus. And it came to pass that when Thurgus was dead, and those who were left loosed their hands from his army in the war, and fled before Angias and before Lucus his brother. And Angias and his brother Lucus chased after them as far as the end of the road between Albanu and Romach, and they killed all the army of Thurgus by the sword. And Lukosh, king of Sardonia, commanded his servants, and they made a copper coffin and placed inside it the Gentile Giblus, his son, and buried him in that place. And they built a high tower over it there on the mother of the road, and called its name Gibulosh after his name to this day. And Turgus, king of Bibinto, buried him there with Giblush in that place. And here on the mother of the road between Albano and Rome, the tomb of Giblush on one side and the tomb of Thurgus on the other and a floor between them to this day.

~207~ And it came to pass in the grave of Gibulush, that his father Lokush returned with his army, to his country of Sardonia. And Angias, his brother, the king of Africa, with his army went as far as the city of Bibinto, which is a city of Thurgus. And the inhabitants of Bibinto heard what he heard, and were greatly afraid of him and went out to meet him weeping and supplicating. And the inhabitants of Bibinto begged Angias not to kill them and not to destroy their city, and he did so. For the cities of Bnei Katim you will consider Bibinto in those days, therefore you did not destroy the city. But from that day forward, the great men of the king of Africa will go to Tima to rob loot and scorn falconry, and it will be too late for them to go, and the chief of the army of Angias went with them. And it came to pass after that that Angias sent with his army and they came to the city of Potcymena, and there Angias took Jania the daughter of Uzza to wife and brought Africa to his city. And it happened at that time that Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, ordered all his people to build him a strong temple in Egypt, and he also ordered all the sons of Jacob to help the Egyptians in the building. And the Egyptians built for Pharaoh a beautiful and handsome palace for his royal house, and he sat in it and renewed his kingdom and reigned securely. And Zebulun son of Jacob died in that year, which is the seventy-fourth year of Israel's departure from Egypt. And Zebulun died at the age of one hundred and fourteen years, and was placed in a coffin and given into the hands of his sons. And in the seventy-fifth year his brother Shimon died, one hundred and twenty years old at his death, and he was also placed in a coffin and given to his sons. And they watched, the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, the minister of the army of Angias, king of Danaba, still inciting Angias every day to make war to fight the sons of Jacob in Egypt. And Angias did not dare to do this thing, because his servants told him all the bravery of the sons of Jacob which they did to them in their war against the sons of Esau. And it came to pass that they saw Angias inciting day by day to fight the sons of Jacob in those days. And it came to pass in days that Angias heard the words of Zefu, and he desired to fight the sons of Jacob in Egypt. And Angias arranged for all his people a blue rabbi who was on the seashore, and he set his sights on going from Egypt to war. And there was one of the servants of Angias fifteen years old, Balaam son of the skin of his name, and the boy is very wise and understands the wisdom of magic. And Angias said to Balaam, Enchant us with magic and we will know who will prevail in this war that we are going on. Balaam ordered and brought him a donkey, and he made of it an image of a chariot and horsemen, a model of the army of Angias and the army of Egypt. And he will put them in the wise water that is with him like that, and they will hold in his hand handfuls of dates and he will become wise and cast a spell on the water with them. And they showed him in the water the image of the soldiers of Angias falling before the image of the Egyptians and the sons of Jacob. And Balaam told this thing to Angias, and Angias became discouraged and did not bother to go down from Egypt to the war and stayed in his city.

~208~ And it came to pass when Zefu son of Eliphaz saw that Angias was discouraged from going to war against Egypt, and Zefu fled from Angias from Africa and went and came to Timmah. And all the sectarians received him with great respect, and hired him to fight their wars forever. And it became very rich in those days, and the legions of the king of Africa were still raiding the land of sects in those days. And they gathered the sectarians and went to Mount Copticia, from the legions of Angias, king of Africa, who were coming upon them. And it came to pass today that an ox, a son of a cattle, was lost in search, and he went to seek the ox, and heard its lowing around that mountain. And he went and looked and saw, and behold, at the bottom of that mountain was a large cave, and a large stone was placed at the entrance of the cave. And he blew up the stone and came to the cave and saw and behold a great animal eating the bull, from the middle and up the figure of a man and from the middle and down the figure of an animal. And he will watch over that beast, and kill it with his sword. And the inhabitants of Kitim heard this thing and were very happy and said, "What shall we do to this man who killed this animal that ate our blood?" And they were all destined to make one day of the year a holy day for him, and they would read the name of that day and observe his name. And they will gather together for him every year in the year on that day, and bring him offerings. At that time Jania, daughter of Uzi, the wife of King Angias, fell ill, and her sickness was hard on King Angias and his ministers. And Angias said to his wise men, what shall I do to Jania and how shall I cure her disease? And his wise men said to him, because the air of our country is not like the air of the land of the Hittites, nor is it on our side like their waters, therefore Queen Jania fell ill from it. Because when the air and water changed to her, she fell ill, and also because in her land she only drinks the water that comes from the forma, which her ancestors brought up on bridges. And Angias commanded his servants, and they brought him vessels from the waters of Purma, which are for the Hittites. And they will weigh those waters with all the waters of the land of Africa, and they will find the waters of Forma lighter than the waters of Africa. And Angias saw this thing, and ordered all his ministers to gather stone cutters by thousands and thousands, and they cut stones without number. And the builders will come and build a very huge bridge, and bring a kind of water from the land of Katim to Africa. And the water shall be for Queen Jania and all her attendants to drink and bake in it and to wash and bathe in it, and also to water in it every seed that eats from it and all the fruit of the earth. And from the dust of the land of Kitim, the king commanded, and they brought from it in many ships, and they also brought white stones from it, and the builders built shrines for the queen Jania, and the queen was cured of her illness.

~209~ And it will be for the period of the year, and they will add more African battalions and come to the land of the Kitims to steal booty from time to time. And Zfu ben Eliphaz heard their voice and commanded them and fought them and they fled before him, and he saved the land of Kitim from them. And the people of Kitim saw the prowess of Zefu, and the people of Kitim took counsel and made Zefu king over them, and he became king over them. And it came to pass in his reign, that they went to conquer the children of Tubal, and all the islands of the sea which are around them. And they commanded your king to swim at their head, and they fought the sons of Tobal and the islands and they burned. And when they returned from the war, they renewed his kingdom for him, and built him a very large hall for his royal house and seat. And they made him a great throne, and he reigned over all the land of the heathen and over all the land of Italy for fifty years. In that year, which is the seventy-ninth year since Israel came down from Egypt, Reuben son of Jacob died in the land of Egypt. Reuben was one hundred and twenty-five years old when he died, and they put him in a coffin and put him in the hands of his sons. And in the eightieth year his brother Dan died, one hundred and twenty-four years old at the time of his death, and he was placed in a coffin and given to his sons. And in that year Hoshem king of Edom died, and Hadad son of Badad reigned after him for thirty-five years. And in the eighty-one year, Isaac son of Jacob died in Egypt. And Issachar was one hundred and twenty-two years old at the time of his death, and he was placed in a coffin and placed in the hands of his sons. And in the year eighty-three years Gad died, he was one hundred and twenty-five years old and was placed in a coffin in Egypt and given to his sons. And it happened in the eighty-fourth year, the fifth year of the reign of Hadad son of Hadad, king of Edom, and Hadad gathered all the sons of Esau and arranged his entire army about four hundred thousand men, and he set his sights on the land of Moab and went to fight Moab and put them under his hand for tribute. And the sons of Moab heard this thing and were greatly afraid, and sent to the sons of Midian to help them fight Hadad son of Hadad, king of Edom. And Hadad came to the land of Moab, and the children of Moab and the children of Midian went out to meet him and made war with him in the field of Moab. And Hadad fought Moab, and many slain of the children of Moab and the children of Midian fell, about two thousand men. And the war will be heavy on Moab and the people of Moab will be afraid because the war is too strong for them and they will loosen their hands and give back and leave the people of Midian to fight. And the people of Midian did not know the thoughts of Moab, but they strengthened themselves in the war and fought Hadad and all his army, and fell every Midian before him. And he smote all Midian with a great blow and slew them with the sword, leaving no remnant of them, all who came to help Moab. And it came to pass when all the children of Midian died in the war and the children of Moab fled, and Haded appointed all of Moab at that time to tax Obad and they would be under his hand. And they gave him a tax as a trial year after year, and Japan died and returned to his country.

~210~ And it came to pass during the year that it was heard among all the Midians in the land that all their brothers had fallen in the battle of Hadad for the sake of Moab, and that Moab had given their rear in the war and were leaving Midin to fight. And the five presidents of a state consulted with the rest of their brothers who remained in their country, to fight Moab to avenge their brothers' war. And the sons of Midian sent to all their brethren the sons of Kedem, and all their brethren came, all the sons of Keturah, to help Midian to fight against Moab. And the sons of Moab heard this thing and were very afraid, because all the sons of Moab were gathered against them for the war. And the children of Moab also sent a book to the land of Edom, to Hadad son of Badad, king of Edom, to say. Please come to us and help us and cripple Midin, because they are all gathered together and they will come against us with all their brothers of old to war to take revenge from him for the revenge of Midin who falls in the war. And Hadad son of Badad, king of Edom, came out of the land of Edom with all his army, and went to the land of Moab to help the children of Moab fight against Midian. And Midian and Bani Kedem fought with Moab in the field of Moab, and there was a very strong war between them. And he smote all the children of Midian and the children of Kedem by the sword, and he saved Moab from the hand of Midian at that time. And the remnants of Madin and Bani Kedem fled before Hadad and their soldiers, and Hadad will pursue them to their land and you will be dealt a very great blow and victims will fall on the way. Witzel defeated Moab from the Cape of Midin because all the people of Midin fell by the sword, and Japan defeated and returned to its land. From that day forward, the sons of Midian hated the sons of Moab, for whom they fell in war, and there was great and great hatred between them all the days. And everyone who is from Midian on the road to the land of Moab shall die by the sword of Moab, and everyone who is from Moab on the road to the land of Midian shall die by the sword of Midian. This is how Madin will do to Moab and Moab to Madin all the days, many days. And it happened at that time that Judah son of Jacob died in Egypt, in the eighty-sixth year that Jacob and his sons came down from Egypt. And Yehuda was one hundred and twenty-nine years old when he died, and they embalmed him and put him in a coffin and he was given into the hands of his sons. And in the year eighty-seven years Benjamin his brother died, one hundred and seventeen years old at the time of his death. And they put it in the coffin and more in the hand of his sons.

~211~ And in the year eighty-nine years, Naftali died, a son of one hundred and two and thirty years, and was placed in a coffin and given to his sons. And it came to pass in the ninety-first year of Israel's coming down from Egypt, which is the thirteenth year of the reign of Zafu son of Eliphaz over the sons of Kitim, the sons of Africa came against the sons of Kitim to rob them of booty from time to time, but they did not come to them for thirteen years. And they came to them in that year, and Zefo ben Eliphaz went out to them with men from his people and dealt them a great and enormous blow. And the African battalions fled before Tsaf and many casualties fell before him on the way, and Tsaf and his men pursued them and went and beat them until close to Africa. And Angias, the king of Africa, heard the thing that Zep had done, and he was very sorry for him, and Angias was afraid of Zep all the days. And in the year ninety-three years Levi ben Jacob died in Egypt. And Levi was a son of one hundred and thirty-seven years at his death, and they put him in a coffin and put him in the hands of his sons. And it happened after the death of Levi, when all the Egyptians saw that all the sons of Jacob and Joseph's brothers had died, and all the Egyptians began to torture the sons of Jacob and make their lives bitter from that day forward until the day they left Egypt. And they took away from them all the vineyards and fields that Joseph had given them, and all the good houses in which the children of Israel were. And all the milk of Egypt, the Egyptians took it all from the sons of Jacob in those days. And the hand of all the Egyptians went harder and harder on the children of Israel in those days, and the Egyptians grazed Israel, until the children of Israel lost their lives because of the Egyptians. And it came to pass after many days in the year one hundred and two years, that Israel came down from Egypt, and Pharaoh the king of Egypt died, and Melul his son reigned under him, and also all the heroes of Egypt and all that generation that knew Joseph and his brothers died in those days. And another generation arose under them who did not know the sons of Jacob and all the good they did to them, and all their valor in Egypt. Therefore, from that day on, all the Egyptians began to make the lives of the sons of Jacob bitter and to punish them with all hard work, because they did not know their ancestors who saved them in the days of famine. And from God it was for the children of Israel to benefit them in their afterlife, for the sake of all the children of Israel knowing God their God. And for the sake of the terrible signs and wonders which God will do in Egypt for His people Israel, so that the children of Israel may fear God, the God of their fathers, to worship Him and walk in all His ways, they and their seed after them all their days.

~212~ He was twenty-six years old when he reigned, and he reigned ninety-four years. And all the Egyptians called his name Pharaoh as his father's name, as was the judgment to be done with every king who ruled over them in Egypt. At that time, all the legions of King Angias of Africa went out to raid the land of Kitim from time to time, to deprive them of their booty. And Zefu son of Eliphaz son of Esau, king of the sects, heard their voice, and went out to meet them in his army and fought them on the way. And when they saw the legions of the king of Africa by the sword, he did not leave a remnant of them, and not one of them returned to his lord Africa. And Angias heard this thing that Zfu son of Eliphaz did to all his army who destroyed them, and Angias heard to all his army all the people of the land of Africa with a very blue rabbi who is on the seashore. And Angias sent to Locus his brother, saying, Come to me with all your men and help me, and we will strike down the Cephas and all the Chitims who destroyed my men. And Lucus will come with all his troops, a very large force, to help his brother Angias, to fight Tsefu and the sons of Kitim. And Zefu and the Gentiles heard this thing and were greatly afraid, and great fear fell into their hearts. And he also sent a book to the land of Edom, to Hadad son of Badad, king of Edom, and to all the sons of Esau, saying. I heard that Angias, the king of Africa, came to us with his brothers to fight us and it was very scary for him because he had a very large army, and even he who came to us with his brothers and soldiers. And now you also went up with me and Azroni, and we fought together with Angias and Lucus his brother, and you delivered us from their hand, and if they did not know that we would all die. And the sons of Esau sent a book to the sons of Kitim, and do not expect your king to say. We will not be able to fight Angias and his people, because we have had an alliance and peace with him for many days since the days of Bela son of the first king. And in the days of Joseph son of Jacob, king of Egypt, with whom we fought on the other side of the Jordan in his father's grave. And it came to pass when Moa heard the words of his brother Esau's brothers, that he ceased from them, and that they feared Angias very much. And Angias and Lucus his brother gathered all their army about eight hundred men, and they will go to Tima to fight against Tso.

~213~ And Zefu ben Eliphaz went out to meet them in fear and trembling, about three thousand people, all sectarians. And all the children of Kitim said, do not wait, please plead on our behalf to the God of your fathers, perhaps they will save us from the Cape of Angias and their soldiers. Because God is great, and He saves all those who trust in Him. And Tsuf heard their words, and Tsuf asked God, and he said. O God, the God of Abraham and Isaac, my fathers, today I know that you are the true God and the God of all the nations who are vain and confused. Please remember to me today your covenant with our father Abraham, which our ancestors told us. And he did kindness to my people this day for Abraham and Isaac our father, and delivered me and my sons Kitim from the hand of the king of Africa who is coming to war against us. And the Lord heard in the voice of Tsefu and pleaded with him on behalf of Abraham and Isaac, and the Lord saved Tsefu and the sons of Kitim from the hand of Angias and his people. And they fought against Angias the king of Africa and all his people that day, and the Lord gave all the men of Angias into the hands of the sons of Kitim. And the war will be great for Angias, and all the men of Angias and Lucus his brother shall be put to the sword. And about four hundred thousand men fell from them until the evening of that day. And Angias saw that all his men had died, and he sent a book to all the inhabitants of Africa to come to him to help in the war. And it is written in the book to say, everyone who is in Africa will come to me from the age of ten years and older, everyone will come to me. And behold, when he does not come and dies, the king will take all that he has and all his house. And all the rest of the inhabitants of Africa were afraid of the deserts of Angias, and about three hundred thousand men and ten-year-old boys came out of the city and came to Angias. And it came to pass at the end of ten days, that Angias would make another war with Tsefu and the sons of Kitim, and there would be a great and very strong war between them. And Zefu from the army of Angias and Lucus his brother sent many slain in the land, about two thousand men, and Sosipter, the commander of the army of Angias, also fell in that war. And it came to pass, when Sosipter died, that the African legions turned and gave their rear to Nous and fled, and Angias and Lucus his brother with them. And Zefa and members of the cults chased after them, and struck them with a great blow on the way, about two hundred men. And they pursued Ezdrubal son of Angias, because he went with his father, and twenty men of his men were beaten on the road, and Ezdrubal escaped from the hands of the sectarians and did not mislead him. And Angias and Lucus his brother fled with the rest of their men, and fled and came to Africa in fear and trembling.

~214~ And Angias was afraid of Zfu son of Eliphaz all the days lest he fight with him again. And Balaam son of Boor was at that time with Angias in the war, and it happened when he saw that a man was watching over Angias and he fled from there and came as an orphan. And Zefa and the children of Kitim received him with great respect because Zefa knew the wisdom of Balaam, and Zefa gave Balaam many gifts and he sat with him. And when he returned from the war, he commanded and commanded all the men of the clans that had gone to war, and behold, not one of them was absent. And he was happy to watch over this thing, and added more and renewed his kingdom and made a feast for all his servants. But he did not remember watching God, and did not know that God helped him in his war, and that he saved him and his people from the hand of the king of Africa. But he will still walk in the ways of the wicked sons of Kitim and the sons of Esau to worship other Gods when his brothers the sons of Esau imitated him, therefore they will say that from the wicked comes evil. And he will reign over all the children of Kitim for sure, and the Lord who saved him and all his people (immediately) the king of Africa did not know. And the African regiments will no longer come as orphans to deprive them of booty as time and time again, because they knew all the bravery of Zefu who struck them all with the sword. And Angeas shall be afraid of Zfu the son of Eliphaz and of the children of Keith, all the days. At that time, when they returned from the war, they saw that he overcame all the people of Africa and killed them by the sword in the war. He consulted with all the sectarians to go from Egypt, to fight the sons of Jacob and Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Because he heard and watched that all the heroes of Egypt died, and that Joseph and his brothers, the sons of Jacob, died and all their sons, the sons of Israel, remained in Egypt. And he said, expect to go fight with them and with all the Egyptians, to avenge from them the revenge of his brother Esau's brother, who struck Joseph and his brothers and all the Egyptians in the land of Canaan, to bury Jacob in Hebron. And Zefu sent messengers to Hadad son of Badad, king of Edom, and to all his brothers, the sons of Esau, as said. Didn't you say that you will not fight the king of Africa because he is your ally, behold, I fought him and smote him and all his people. And now I am supposed to fight the Egyptians and the sons of Jacob who are there, and I will take revenge on them for what Joseph and their brothers did to us in the land of Canaan in their right to bury their father in Hebron. And now if you are willing to come to me to help me fight with them and the Egyptians, and we will avenge our brother's revenge on them.

~215~ And the sons of Esau listened to the words of Tsefu, and all the sons of Esau gathered together with a very large number and went to help Tsefu and the sons of Keith in the war. And he sent watchmen to all the sons of Kedem, and to all the sons of Ishmael according to these words. And they gathered and all went to the aid of Zefu and the sects, to the war against Egypt. And all these kings went out and came, the king of Edom and the sons of Kedem and all the sons of Ishmael, and they saw the king of the Hittites and they arrayed all their armies in Hebron. And the whole camp was very heavy for the duration of three days, with a blue rabbi who is on the shore of the sea of ​​whom there is no number. And all these kings and all their armies came down and came against all Egypt to war, and they all camped together in the valley of Patros. And all the Egyptians heard their voice, and all the people of the land of Egypt and all the cities that are in Egypt gathered together, about three hundred thousand people. And also the Israelites who were in the land of Goshen in those days sent the people of Egypt to them to come with them, to go fight together with all the kings. And all the people of Israel gathered at that time and there were about one hundred and fifty men, and they went to war to help Egypt. And the people of Israel and Egypt came out about three hundred thousand and one hundred and fifty men, and they went towards those kings to the war and they all stationed themselves outside the land of Goshen against Peter. And the Egyptians did not believe in Israel to go with them in their camps together to the war, because all the Egyptians said lest the children of Israel should be shut up by the children of Esau and the children of Ishmael because they are their brothers. And all the Egyptians said to the children of Israel, stand here together in your position and we all went and fought with the children of Esau and Ishmael. And it would happen if these kings became stronger than him, and you all came together against them and helped us, and the Israelites did the same. And they beheld the son of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, king of Kitim, and Hadad, son of Badad, king of Edom, and all their camp, and all the sons of Kedem, and the sons of Ishmael, with Rav Blue, encamped together in the valley of Patros against Tahpanchas. And there was Balaam son of Zefu in the camp, because he came with the sons of Kitim to war, and Balaam was a very respectable man in the eyes of Zefu and his men. And he said, Look to Balaam, please enchant us with a charm and we will know who will prevail in this war, us or Egypt. And Balaam arose and sat in the wisdom of magic and became wise to know, and the magic did not come to him and the work was corrupted by his hand. And Yosef did it again and it was not done, and Balaam despaired of it and left it and did not do it.

~216~ Because what was this, so that God threw Tsefu and his people into the hands of the Israelites who trusted in God, the God of their ancestors in their war. And they drew up and prepared their array for war, and all the Egyptians alone went together to meet them, about three hundred thousand men, and not one of the children of Israel was with them. And all the Egyptians fought with these kings against Patrus and Tahpanchas, and the war was heavy on Egypt. And the kings from Egypt were strengthened in that war, and about one hundred and eighty men fell from Egypt that day, and the kings' men fell about thirty men. And all the people of Egypt fled before the kings, and the sons of Esau and Ishmael pursued the Egyptians and struck them down to the place where the camp of the Israelites was. And all the Egyptians cried out to the children of Israel, saying, Hurry to us and help us and deliver us from the hand of Esau and Ishmael and the children of Kitim. And the children of Israel ran from where they stood, about one hundred and fifty men, to the camps of these kings, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord their God to save them. And God heard Israel, and God gave all the kings' men into their hands. And the children of Israel fought these kings, and the children of Israel smote the kings' men with a great blow, about four thousand men. And the Lord caused a great uproar in the camps of the kings, and the fear of the children of Israel fell upon them. And all the armies of these kings fled before the children of Israel, and the children of Israel chased after them going and striking until the border of the land of Cush. And the Israelites killed another two thousand of them on the road, and not one of the Israelites fell. And the Egyptians heard that the Israelites fought with the kings with few men, and that the war was very strong between them. And all the Egyptians will be very afraid for their souls from the mighty war, and all the Egyptians will flee hiding one by one from the system of war and will hide on the way, and will leave Israel to fight. And the children of Israel smote the men of those kings with a great blow, and sat upon them after they had driven them away to the border of the land of Cush. And all Israel knew what the people of Egypt had done to them, who fled from the war and left to fight. And the children of Israel also acted deceitfully, and it happened when the children of Israel returned from the war and found the Egyptians on the road and killed them on the road.

~217~ And when they had killed them, they said to them like these words, why did you come from above us and leave us when there are few people to fight these kings who are in a great nation to strike us and escape with your lives. And there are those whom the children of Israel will find on the road, and the children of Israel will speak to them one to another according to these words. They beat him because he was an Ishmaelite or an Edomite or a sectarian, and they stood over him and killed him and they knew he was an Egyptian. And the children of Israel did these things by treachery against Egypt, whom they left in the war and fled from them. And the Israelites killed about two hundred people from the people of Egypt on the road in this act. And all the people of Egypt saw the evil that the children of Israel had done to them, and all the Egyptians were very afraid of the children of Israel because they saw their great valor and that not one of them fell. And all the children of Israel returned with joy to their way to Goshen, and the rest of Egypt returned every man to his place. And after that, all the counselors of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and all the elders of Egypt were gathered, and they all came before the king and bowed to him with their noses to the ground and sat before him. And the counselors and all the elders of Egypt spoke before the king as follows. Here is the people of Bnei Israel, more numerous and vast than him, and you knew all the evil they did to us on the way back from the war. And you also saw their strong valor, for they have valor from their fathers. Because when a few people stood against a blue rabbi and fell by the sword and not one of them fell, even if there were many because then they would all be destroyed. Now give us advice on what to do with them until we destroy them and destroy them little by little all above us, lest they multiply us in the land. For if the children of Israel multiplied in the land and they were against Satan, and it happened that war would be called, and he would also join us in his strong might with our enemies, and they would fight against us and destroy us from the land and come up from it. And the king answered the elders of Egypt and said to them, This is the advice that is given to Israel and we will not deviate from it. Are the land of Pithom and Ramses cities unstrengthened by the war for us, and we will go to build them and strengthen them. And now you also go and sail about them, and spread the word in Egypt and Goshen according to the commandment of the king as stated. To you all the people of Egypt and Goshen and Patrus and all their inhabitants, the king ordered us to build Pithom and Ramses and fortify them from the war. Who among you of all the Egyptians and of the children of Israel and of all the inhabitants of the cities built our people and gave their wages daily according to the commandment of the king, and you went first and did deceitfully and gathered together and came to Pithom and Ramses to build.

~218~ And when you have built, you will convey the sound like this throughout Egypt every day according to the commandment of the king. And it happened when the children of Israel came with you to live with you, and you gave them their wages day by day for several days. And it was when they built with you day by day in their wages, and you escaped from them day by day one by one in hiding, and you got up and were on them to the approachers and the policemen. And you left them after that to build without wages, and it would have been if they had done this, and it would have been good for us to strengthen our country, and bad for the Israelites. Because from the arrival of the building and the work, the children of Israel will decrease, because you will kill them over their wives day by day. And all the elders of Israel listened to the king's advice and the advice was good in their eyes and in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants and in the eyes of all the Egyptians, and they did as the king said. And all the servants of Pharaoh went out from before the king, and they spread a voice throughout Egypt, and in Bathpanchas, and in Goshen, and in all the cities that are around Egypt, saying, You have seen what the sons of Esau and Ishmael did to us, who came to fight against us and said to destroy us. And now here is the king commanding us to fortify the land, build the cities of Pithom and Ramses and fortify them from the war when they come against us. Who among you in all Egypt and the children of Israel will come to build with us, and will be given his wages daily by the king according to his commandment. And it came to pass when Egypt and all the children of Israel heard all that Pharaoh's servants had spoken, and they came from Egypt and all the children of Israel to build Pithom and Ramses with Pharaoh's servants, but all the sons of Levi did not come with Israel to build their brothers. And all the servants of Pharaoh and his ministers came deceitfully on the first day to build with all Israel as daily wage earners, and they gave Israel their wages day after day on the first day. And Pharaoh's servants built over all Israel, and they did that work with Israel for a month. And it came to pass at the end of a month of days, that all of Pharaoh's servants began to flee from the people of Israel, hiding one day at a time. And the Israelites are still working at that time, but they are still taking their wages every day at that time, because people from the Egyptians are still working at that time with Israel, therefore the Egyptians are giving Israel their wages in those days, for the Egyptians will also take their brothers' wages

~219~ And at the end of days and four months all the Egyptians fled from the children of Israel, and the children of Israel were left alone doing the work. And it came to pass when all the Egyptians fled from the children of Israel, and they returned, and the guards and the police were upon them. And of those who stood over the children of Israel as tax officials, to take from them all that they had given them as wages for their work. And the Egyptians did to the children of Israel like this act every day, in order to answer Israel in all their work. And all the children of Israel will be alone doing the work, and all the Egyptians will refrain from giving wages to the children of Israel from that day forward. And it came to pass when every man of Israel believed in doing a work for which no reward was given, and all those who approach them and all the servants of Pharaoh approached him and beat him with vigorous blows and brought him back with strength to work with his brothers, so shall all the Egyptians do to the children of Israel forever. And all the children of Israel will be very afraid of the Egyptians in this matter, and all the children of Israel will return and work alone without pay. And the children of Israel built Pithom and Ramses, and all the children of Israel did the work, some of them whites and some builders. And the children of Israel built and strengthened the whole land of Egypt and all its walls, and the children of Israel did that work for many years and days until the day God remembered them and brought them out of Egypt. But all the sons of Levi were not with Israel their brothers in that work from the beginning, until the day you came out of Egypt. For all the sons of Levi knew that all the Egyptians had spoken deceitfully to Israel all these things, therefore all the sons of Levi ceased to work together with their brothers. And all the Egyptians did not turn their faces to the sons of Levi to worship after that, after they were not with their brothers from the beginning, therefore all the Egyptians left them. And the hand of the people of Egypt became more and more difficult for the Israelites in that work, and the Egyptians enslaved the Israelites with hardship. And the Egyptians made the lives of the Israelites bitter with hard work in material and bricks, and also in any work that the Egyptians had in the field. And the children of Israel called Malol the king of Egypt Meror the king of Egypt, because in his days the Egyptians made their lives miserable in every work.

~220~ And in whatever work the Egyptians make the Israelites work, they will make them work hard, in order to answer the Israelites. But when they torture them, so will the children of Israel multiply, and so will they break out, and Egypt will be cut off from the children of Israel. At that time, Hadad ben Badad, king of Edom, died, and a dress from Shirka, from the land of the ancients, reigned under him. In the thirteenth year of Pharaoh king of Egypt is the year of one hundred years and fifteen years for Israel to come down from Egypt, the king of Shemla on Edom eighteen years. And it came to pass in his reign, that an army went out to fight against Zfu the son of Eliphaz and the sons of Kitim, for whom they fought with Angias, king of Africa, and destroyed all his army. But he did not fight with him, because Esau's sons prevented him from saying that he was their brother. And he heard the voice of the sons of Esau, and he went and sat down with all his army in the land of Edom and did not go to fight Zfu ben Eliphaz. And Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, heard this saying, he advised Shalma, the king of Edom, to fight the heathens, and later he would come to fight the Egyptians. And it came to pass when the Egyptians heard this thing, that they made the work more difficult for the children of Israel, lest Israel should do to them as they did to the children of Esau in their war in the days of Hadad. And the Egyptians said to the children of Israel, hurry and do your work and complete your deeds and strengthen the land, lest the children of Esau, your brothers, come against us to war, because for your sake they come to us. And the children of Israel did the work of all the people of Egypt every day, and the Egyptians tortured the children of Israel in order to make them few in the land. But when all the Egyptians multiply by working for the children of Israel, so will the children of Israel multiply and so will they break out and fill all Egypt with the children of Israel. And it came to pass in the year one hundred and five and twenty years that Israel came down from Egypt, when all Egypt saw that their counsel was not established in Israel, but they multiplied and broke out, and the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen were filled with the children of Israel. And all the elders of Egypt and its wise men went and came before the king, and bowed down to him and sat before him. And all the elders of Egypt and all her wise men said to the king, May the king live forever. Yeoz gave us the advice that you gave to the Israelites, and we will do to them according to the word of the king. And when the work was too heavy for them, they multiplied and multiplied in the land, and behold, the whole land is full of them.

~221~ And now, Lord King, the eyes of all Egypt, you must give them advice with your wisdom, as for Israel to lose them and diminish them from the land. And the king answered them saying, "Here are you for advice on this matter and we will know what to do with them." And a eunuch, one of the king's advisers, named Job from Aram Naharim, from the land of Oz, told the king. If it is good for the king, please listen to his servant's advice, and the king will say something to him. And Job spoke before the king and the ministers, and before all the elders of Egypt as said. Here is the advice of the king who advised in those days about the work of the Israelites, it is very good and you will not stop that work from them forever. However, this is the counsel that advises them that you can belittle them, if it is good for the king to do it. Here we are afraid of the war for many days and it is said in the cows of Israel in the land, we will be expelled from the land when war is called. If it is good for the king, the word of the kingdom will come out from before him and it will be written in the religion of Egypt and it will not pass away, so that every trace of the Hebrews will shed their blood on the ground. And let this thing be done by you when every male member of the children of Israel dies, and the evil of their wars ceases from us. Pharaoh will do and call all the Hebrew midwives, and command them to do this thing. And the thing was good in the eyes of the king and the ministers, and the king did as Job said. And Pharaoh sent and called the Hebrew midwives. And the midwives came before the king, and she stood before him. And the king said to them, Take the Hebrews and see on the stones if it is a boy and put him to death and if it is a girl and live. And if you do not do this thing, I will burn you and all your houses with fire. And the midwives despised God, and did not listen to the king of Egypt and all his words. And the Hebrew woman's ballad about the midwife had a son or a daughter and the midwife took care of all the child's needs and revived him, this is how midwives will do all the days. And this thing was told to the king and he sent and called the midwives and said to them, why did you do this thing and bathe the children. And the midwives answered and they both spoke before the king to say. Let not the king say that like the Hebrew Egyptian women, because all the daughters of Israel live here before the midwife comes to them and they give birth. And we who are your servants have not given birth to a Hebrew woman for many days, because all the women of Israel give birth for their own sake because they live here.

~222~ And Pharaoh heard their words, and believed them on this matter. And the midwives went out from before Pharaoh, and God was kind to them, and the people multiplied and became very strong. There was a man in the land of Egypt of the seed of Levi, and his name was Amram son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel. And that man went and took Yochaved daughter of Levi, his father's sister, as a wife, and she is one hundred and six and twenty years old, and he came to her. And the woman conceived and gave birth to a daughter and called her name Miriam, because in those days Egypt made the lives of the Israelites bitter. And she conceived again and gave birth to a son and called his name Aaron, because during the days of her pregnancy Pharaoh began to shed the blood of the sons of Israel. In those days, Zefu ben Eliphaz ben Esau, king of Kitim, died, and Janyush reigned under him. And the days that he reigned over all the people of Kitim fifty years, and he died and was buried in the city of Nebana in the land of Kitim. And Janyush, one of the heroes of the Bnei Katim, will reign after him over all the Bnei Katim, and he will reign fifty years. And it came to pass after the death of Zefu, king of the Hittites, that Balaam son of Boor fled from the land of the Hittites, and went and came from Egypt to Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Pharaoh received him with great honor because he heard his wisdom, and he gave him gifts and made him a counselor and raised him. And Balaam sat in Egypt in honor with all the king's ministers, and the ministers married Balaam because they all wanted to learn his wisdom. And it came to pass in the year one hundred and thirty years that Israel came down from Egypt, and Pharaoh dreamed, and he was sitting on his throne, and lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold, an old man standing before him, and in the old man's hand scales from the scales of the merchants. And the old man took the scales and bowed before Pharaoh. And the old man took all the elders of Egypt and all her ministers and all her elders and imprisoned them together, and they weighed them in one balance. And a lamb will take one milk and put it in the other spoon of scales, and the lamb will kneel them all. And Pharaoh lamented over that terrible vision of why the lamb would kneel them all, and Pharaoh lamented and behold a dream. And Pharaoh got up in the morning and called all his servants and Pharaoh told them the dream, and the people saw a great awe. And the king said to all his wise men, please solve for me this dream that I dreamed and we will know. And Balaam son of Boor answered the king and said to him, This is nothing but a great evil that will spring up over Egypt in the last days. For here is a son born to Israel who will destroy all Egypt and destroy all its inhabitants, and bring Israel out of Egypt with a strong hand.

~223~ And now our Lord the King has given you advice on this matter and you have lost the trust of the children of Israel and their hope, before this evil grows on all of Egypt. And the king said to Balaam, what shall we do to Israel that is not like this and like this we counseled them in the beginning and we could not over them. And now you also give us advice about them, what we can do to them. And Balaam answered the king saying, Please send and call your two counselors and let's see what their advice is on this matter and then your servant will speak. And the king sent and called his two advisers, Reuel the Midianite and Ayyob Hautzi, and they came and sat before the king. And the king said to them, here you have all heard the dream that I dreamed and its solution. And now please advise and know and see what to do to the Israelites and what we can do against them, before their evil grows against us. And Reuel the Midini answered the king and said, Long live the king long live the king forever. If it is good for the king, let him stop over the Hebrews and leave them and let him not lay his hands on them. Because their God chose them from ancient times, and fought to inherit his inheritance from all the nations of the earth and from all the kings of the earth. And he who put his hand in them and cleansed them, and their God did not take vengeance on him. Didn't you know that Abraham, their father, left Egypt, and Pharaoh, the ancient king of Egypt, saw his wife Sarah and took him as his wife. Because Abraham said, she is my sister, because he was afraid that the people of Egypt would kill him for his wife. And the king of Egypt took Sarah, and their God afflicted him and his household with great plagues until he returned Sarah his wife to Abraham, then they were healed. And also to Abimelech the Harari, king of the Philistines, God rebuked him for Sarah, Abraham's wife, by withholding from them all mercy for man and beast. And his God came to Abimelech in a night dream and frightened him, so that he would return to Abraham Sarah whom he had taken. After that, all the people of Gerra argued about Sarah, and Abraham prayed to his God about them and he submitted to him and he healed them. And Abimelech saw all the evil that was coming upon him and his people, and he took Sarah his wife to Abraham, and gave him many portions and gifts with her.

~224~ And to Yitzchak he did the same thing in Gerar, and his God performed wonders with him, and all my descendants dried up from the waters of Gerar, and their fruitful trees did not grow until Abimelech came to him from Gerar and the estate of his pasture and the chief of his army, and bowed down and bowed down to him to the ground. And they asked him for a plea to pray to God for them, and God granted him and healed them. And Jacob the man of Tam was overshadowed in his death immediately by his brother Esau, and immediately by Laban the Aramean, his mother's brother who sought his life. And also from the hand of all the kings of Canaan, who all came together against him and his sons to destroy them, and the Lord saved them from their hand, and they turned against them and made them orphans, for he who laid his hand on them was clean. Didn't the ancient Pharaoh, your father's father, raise Joseph son of Jacob above all the ministers of the land of Egypt when he saw his wisdom, because with his wisdom he saved all the inhabitants of the land from famine. After that he ordered Jacob and his sons to be brought down from Egypt, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen would escape from the famine by their grace. Now if it is good in your eyes, stop corrupting the children of Israel, and if it is not in your heart to resettle them from Egypt, send them away from there and they will go to the land of Canaan, the land of their ancestors. And when Pharaoh heard Jethro's words, he was very angry with him, and he stood up from the king's face in shame, and he left Egypt that day and went to his country Medina, and Joseph took a staff in his hand. And the king said to Job the Uzzi, what will you say, Job, and what will be your advice to the Hebrews. And Job said to the king, are not all the inhabitants of the land in your hand as is good in the eyes of the king? And the king said to Balaam, what will you say Balaam, speak your words and we will listen. And Balaam said to the king, whatever the king advises against the Hebrews, they will escape from her and the king will not be able to do anything against them. For if with a flame of fire you say to belittle them, you will not be able to overcome them with it, because their God did not save Abraham their father from the light of the Chaldeans. If with the sword you say to destroy them, will not Isaac their father escape from her and a ram will be given in his stead. And if through toil and difficulty you say to belittle them, you will not be able to do that, because Jacob their father worked for Laban in all hard work and succeeded.

~225~ And now, my lord the king, please listen to my words, and this is the advice that advises them with which you will prevail over them, and from which you will not depart. If it is good for the king to be ordered to throw their children who will be born from that day forward into the water, because with this you can protest their names because not one of them and their ancestors were used in this matter. And the king heard the words of Balaam, and it was good in the eyes of the king and the ministers, and the king did as Balaam said. And the king commanded and a voice was passed and a religion was given throughout the land of Egypt to the effect that every male child born to the Hebrews from this day forward shall be thrown into the water. And Pharaoh called to all his servants, saying, Go out, please, and seek in all the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel are, and see every son born to the Hebrews who is a virgin, you shall throw him away, and every daughter shall be banished. And it came to pass when the children of Israel heard the thing which Pharaoh had commanded to throw away their remembrances into the wilderness, and some of the people separated from their wives, and some of them clung to Hannah. And it happened from that day forward at the time of the religion of the women of Israel who were still speaking here, and they went out to the field to go there, and they gave birth in the field, and their children left it on the face of the field, and they returned to their homes. And God, who swore to Abraham to multiply them, sent them an angel from His servants in heaven to bathe them in water, to wash them, to anoint them, and to clothe them, and to hold in his hand two pebbles, from one of which he would suck milk, and from the other he would suck honey. And he also grows the hairs of his head up to his elbows, so that he may be covered with them to delight and cling to him in his mercy. And it was in God's mercy upon them and in his desire to multiply them on the face of the earth, that he commanded to destroy his land and receive them to be kept among them until the time of their greatness. And after that the earth opened its mouth and vomited them up, and they sprang up from the city like the grass of the earth and like the weeds of the forest, and each returned to his family and each to his ancestors and clung to them. And the children of the children of Israel shall be in the earth like the grass of the field, by God's mercy upon them. And all the Egyptians saw this thing, and all the Egyptians went out, every man to his field, every man with his yoke of oxen and his plough, and plowed on his back like a robber of the earth at the time of sowing. And it happened that they were afraid and could not harm the children of the sons of Jacob, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

~226~ And Pharaoh commands his eunuchs to go to Goshen every day, to ask for the children of the Israelites. And when they asked for it, and when they found the boy, they took him from his mother's bosom with care and threw him into the forest, and left the daughter with her mother. This is what the Egyptians will do to Israel forever. And it happened at that time that the Spirit of God came upon Miriam, the daughter of Amram, the sister of Aaron, and she went and prophesied inside the house, saying, Behold, a son has been born to us from my father and mother at this time, and he will save Israel from the hand of Egypt. And when Amram heard his daughter's words, he went and took his wife and brought her back to his house after he had banished her, at the time when Pharaoh commanded that every trace of the house of Jacob be thrown away. And Amram took Yochaved his wife in the third year of divorce, and he came to her and conceived for him. And at the end of seven months at the time of her conception, she gave birth to a son, and the whole house was filled with a great light like the light of the sun and the moon at their rising. And the woman saw the child because he was good and nice to look at, and she hid him three moons in the inner room. In those days the secret of all the Egyptians was piled up, to lose all the Hebrews there. And the women of Egypt shall go to Goshana, which is the name of the children of Israel, and shall carry their calves on their shoulders, their children, who shall not speak. And all the women of the children of Israel were born in those days, and the woman chastened her son from the Egyptians for the ignorance of the Egyptians and for her daughter so that they would not be corrupted from the earth. And the Egyptian women came with their children on their shoulders before they could speak, and when the Egyptian came to the Hebrew house and the girl stammered in her language. And when they stuttered and answered the northern child from the room, and the Egyptians went away and said to them the house of Pharaoh. And Pharaoh sends his policemen to take the children to kill them. This is what all Egyptians will do to Hebrews forever. And it happened at that time, about three months in the northern time, that his son would be honored, and Pharaoh's household knew about it. And the woman hurries before the police come to take her son, and takes him a rubber box and hardens it with clay and tar, and puts the child in it and finally puts it on the edge of the wall. And Miriam his sister stood afar off, to know what he would do to him and what her words would be. And God sent at that time a fire and heat in the land of Egypt, and it consumed the flesh of man when the sun shone in its time, and created a great deal for the Egyptians.

~227~ And all the Egyptians went down to bathe in the heather, because of the heat of the burning in the skin of their flesh. And her daughter Pharaoh's daughter also went down to bathe on the heather because of the heat of the burning, and her maidens walked by the heather and all the women of Egypt were priests. And Bethiah, Pharaoh's daughter, raised her eyes to the light and saw the ark on the surface of the water, and she sent her hand and took it. And you shall open it and see the child, and here is a boy crying, and you shall have mercy on him and say, This is one of the children of the Hebrews. And all the women of Egypt who walk by the edge of the mountain to breastfeed him and his father did not leave, because this word was from God to the child because he returned to his mother's breasts. And Miriam his sister was at that time with the Egyptian women on Hior, and she saw this thing. And you said to Pharaoh's daughter, I went and called you a nursing woman from the Hebrews and she will nurse the child for you. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her go, and the maiden went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said to Jochebed, take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you two shekels a day, and the woman took the child and nursed him. And it came to pass at the end of two years, and the child grew up, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and she had a son, and she called his name Moshe, and she said, "From the waters is Moses. And Amram his father called his name Hevar, because he said for him Hevar with his wife whom he had sent away. And Jochebed his mother called his name Yekutiel, because she said that he was with me from God, and his God is with me. And Miriam his sister called him Yared, to say that she went after him into the wilderness to know what his afterlife would be. And Aharon his brother called his name Avi Zanouch, that is to say, my father abandoned my mother and went to him for his sake. And the father of Amram called his name, Avi Gador, because for him God fenced the breach of the house of Jacob and they did not stop to throw away their remembrances from the water. And when he was nursing he called him Abi Sukko, because in Sukko three moons were hidden from the sons of Ham. And all of Israel called his name after that Shemiah ben Nathaniel, because they said that in his days God heard their cries and would immediately remove their oppressors. And Moses was in Pharaoh's house, and there was Bethiah, Pharaoh's daughter, to Laban, and Moses grew up among the king's sons.