Book of Jasher (Sefer haYashar) 14 part 3/4

~231~ And Moses said to Pharaoh, My Lord, I have come to ask one small question from you, please do not return my face empty, and Pharaoh said something to him. And Moses said to Pharaoh, Please give your servants the children of Israel who are in Goshen one day to rest from their work. And the king answered Moses and said, Behold, I have brought your face to this matter to do your words. And Pharaoh commanded and they sent a voice through Egypt and Goshen, saying, To you all the children of Israel, thus said the king, do your work and your work for six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, and you shall not work for any nation. This is how you shall do all the days as the king and Moshe ben Batya commanded. And Moses rejoiced at this thing which the king had given him, and all the children of Israel did as Moses commanded them. Because this word was from God to the children of Israel, because God began to remember the children of Israel to save them for the sake of their ancestors. And God was with Moses, and he was heard in all Egypt. And Moses was great in the eyes of all the Egyptians and in the eyes of the children of Israel and demanded good from his people Israel, and spoke words of peace about them before the king. And it came to pass when Moshe was eighteen years old, and he longed for his father and mother to see them, and Goshana went to them. And it came to pass when Moses sacrificed to Goshen, and he came to the place where the children of Israel were doing work, and he saw their suffering, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man from his brother. And when the beaten man saw Moshe, he ran to him for help, because the man Moshe was very respected and great in Pharaoh's house. And he said to him, My lord, this Egyptian came to my house at night and forbade me, and to my wife he came before me and now he wants my life to take her. And when Moses heard this bad thing, he was very angry with the Egyptian, and he swore this way and that, and he saw that there was no one to kill the Egyptian and bury him in the sand, and he saved the Hebrew from his hand. And the Hebrew went to his house, and Moses returned to his way and went and stayed in the king's house. And when the man returned home, he said to send his wife away, because it is not proper for the house of Jacob for a man to come to his wife after she has been defiled. And the woman went and betrayed her brother, and the woman's brother asked to be killed, and fled to his house and escaped. And it came to pass on the second day, that Moses went out to his brother, and saw, and behold, two men hawks, and said to the wicked, why do you strike your neighbor? And he answered him and said to him, Who is your name for a man who sings and judges over us, the slayer you say when you killed the Egyptian, and Moses was afraid and said, "Indeed the matter is known."

~232~ And Pharaoh heard this thing and ordered to kill Moses, and God sent his angel and it resembled Pharaoh as the image of the chief cook. And the angel of God took the sword from the hand of the chief of the cooks and cut off his head with it, because the image of the chief of the cooks was transformed into the image of Moses. And the angel of God strengthened Moses' right hand and brought him out of Egypt, and placed him outside the border of Egypt for forty days. And only Aaron his brother remained in the land of Egypt, and he prophesied to the children of Israel as said. Thus said the Lord, the God of your fathers, Do not defile the man whose eyes he casts, and in the ravages of Egypt. And the House of Israel repented, and did not refuse to listen to Aaron at that time. And God said to destroy them, I wish God had remembered his covenant which he made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in those days went harder and harder on the children of Israel, and he oppressed them and pressed them until the time when God sent his word and went before them. And it came to pass in those days that there was a great war between the children of Cush and between the children of Kedem and Aram, and they transgressed against the king of Cush, who were under his hand. And Cycanus, king of Cush, went out with all the children of Cush, with a great blue rabbi, and went to fight against Aram and the children of Kedem to bring them back under his hand. And it came to pass when Cycanus went out, and Balaam the magician left, he and his two sons in the city, to guard the city and the gate of the land. And Cycanus went out and went to Aram and the ancients and fought with them and defeated them, and they all fell dead before Cycanus and his people. And there was a great captivity from them and they surrendered under his hand as the first time, and it was gracious to their country to take the tax from them according to his judgment. And Balaam son of Boor, when the king of Cush left to guard the city and the city gate, he stood up and counseled the people of the land to rebel against the king of Cycanus to not come to the city when he came. And all the people of the land obeyed him, and they swore to him and made him king over them and his two sons as captains of armies. And they will rise and raise the walls of the city on both sides, and build a huge and very strong building. And on the third shoulder, they dug many wells without number between the city and the river that surrounds the whole land of Cush, and they split the water of the river there. And on the shoulder of the fourth they gathered many snakes with their spells and sorcerers, and they fortified the city and sat in it and there was no going out and no coming before them. And Cycanus fought with Aram and the sons of Kedem and Chaniam under his hand as the first, and they gave him tribute according to their judgment and he went and settled in his own country.

~233~ And soon Cycanus, king of Cush, came to his city and all the captains of the soldiers with him, and they lifted up their eyes and saw, and behold, the walls of the city were built and very high, and the people were amazed at this. And they said one to another, because they saw how we were ashamed in the war and they looked very much at us. Therefore they did this thing and raised the walls of the city and fortified them, so that the kings of Canaan would not come to them for war. And the king and the soldiers approached the entrance of the city, and they saw that all the gates of the city were closed, and they called to the gatekeepers saying, Open for us and we will enter the city. And the gatekeepers will be instructed to open to them the unleavened bread, Balaam the magician of your king, and we will not yield to the coming of the city. And they made war with them in front of the city of Shera, and thirty one hundred men fell from the army of Cycanus that day. And it happened on the second day, and they continued to fight, and they fought across the river, and they tried to cross, but they could not, and they drowned in the ditches and died. And the king ordered trees to be cut and rafts to be made to go to them, and they did so. And it came to pass when they came to the place of the pits, and the waters were rolling in the winds, and on that day two hundred men on ten rafts were drowned. And it came to pass on the third day, that they came to fight because of the serpents, and they could not approach it. And the snakes killed seventy and one hundred of them, and they stopped fighting for Cush. And his creation on Kush nine years, and there is no going out and no coming. At that time, being the war and the siege of Cush, Moses fled from Egypt before Pharaoh, who wanted to kill him for killing the Egyptian. And Moses, who was eighteen years old, fled from Egypt before Pharaoh, Vince and fled to the camp of Cycanus the narrow-minded at that time on Kush. And Moses was in the camp of Cycanus, king of Cush, for nine years, all the days that they were afflicted in Cush, and Moses went and came with them. And the king and the ministers and all the men of war loved Moses, for he was great and precious, and his height was like a mighty lion, and his face was like the sun, and the strength of his valor was like a strong lion, and he was an adviser to the king. And it came to pass at the end of nine years, that Cycanus healed his illness, in which he would die, and his illness strengthened him, and he died on the seventh day. And his servants embalmed him, and carried him and buried him in front of the city gate facing the land of Egypt. And they built on it a handsome and huge and very high building, and they placed large stones on top of it. And the scribes of Cycanus wrote on those stones all the valor of King Cycanus and all his wars that he fought, and they are written there to this day.

~234~ And it happened after the death of Cycanus, king of Cush, that he prepared his people and soldiers very well against the war. And they said one to another, give us advice what to do at this time, when we have been sitting in the desert apart from our homes today for nine years. If we said we fought for the city and soldiers fell from it, we gave, and if we sat here under siege and gave. Because now all the kings of Aram and the ancients will hear that our king is dead, and they will suddenly come to war against us and fight us and will not leave a remnant of him. And now go, and we will have a king reign over us, and we will sit in the siege until the city is given into our hands. And they chose a king over the whole army of Cycanus that day, and they did not find a choice to be king over them like Moses. And they hastened and stripped each of his clothes and threw them to the ground and made a big platform, and they sat Moses on it. And they stood up and blew trumpets and shouted before him and said, Long live the king Long live the king. And all the people and all the ministers swore to him to give him her mistress, the Kushite queen, the wife of Cycanus, and they made Moses king over them that day. And all the people of Cush passed a vote on that day to say, every man to give to Moses of all that he found in his hand. And they spread the dress on the stage, and they threw on it, each one, one gold thread and one piece of embroidery from everything they had. And of the stones of Shoham and the crystal and the stones of Dar and Sacharat all the children of Cush threw to Moses on the stage, both silver and gold in great abundance. And Moses took all the silver and the gold and all the vessels and the crystal and the gold that all the children of Cush had given him, and put them in his treasures. And Moses reigned over all the children of Cush that day under Cycanus, king of Cush. In the fifty-fifth year of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is the year of one hundred and fifty-seven years for Israel to come down from Egypt, the king of Moses on Cush. Moses was twenty-seven years old when he reigned over Cush, and he reigned forty years. And God gave Moses grace and favor in the eyes of all the children of Cush, and the children of Cush loved him very much and Moses was good with God and with people. And it came to pass on the seventh day of his reign, that all the children of Cush were gathered together, and they were all appointed, and they came before Moses, and bowed down to him to the ground. And all the sons of Cush spoke together before the king saying, Give us advice and we will see what to do for this city. Because today for nine years we sat in siege for the city, and we did not see our sons and our wives.

~235~ And the king answered them saying, if you listen to my voice to all that I command you. And God gave the city into our hands, and we captured it. Because we fought with them like the first war we fought before the death of Cycanus, and many victims fell from him like the first. And now here is a piece of advice for you in this matter if you will listen to my voice, and gave the city into our hands. And all the soldiers answered the king saying, whatever my lord commands, so shall your servants do. And Moses said to them, go over and call a voice in the whole camp to all the people to say. Thus said the king, go to the honeysuckle and bring the children of Hasida, each with his chick in his hand. And every man who disobeys the king's word and does not bring his chicken dies, and everything he has the king will take. And it was when you brought them and they were with you on guard duty, and you raised them to their full size and taught them to draw like the way of the Hawks. And all the children of Cush heard the words of Moses, and arose and sent a voice in the camp to say. To you, all the children of Cush, at the mitzvos of the king, go to the forests together for you and take from the children of Hasida, each one of his chicks in his hand, and bring them to you. And every man who transgressed the king's word died, and the king took all that he had. And all the people did as this thing, and they went to the honeysuckle and climbed the cypresses and each of the children of the Hasida took a chick for them by the hand and brought them in the evening. And they grew up according to the commandments of the king, and they were taught to fly like the children of the hawk, according to all that the king commanded, so did all the children of Cush. And when the children of the Hasida grew up, the king ordered to starve them for three days, and all the people did so. And it came to pass on the third day, that the king said unto them, Be strong, and be men of valor, and put on every man his war gear, and every man gird his sword upon him, and every man ride his horse, and take every man his fowl in his hand. And she arose and fought against the city from the place where the snakes were, and all the people did as the king said. And they took one of his chicks in his hand and went, and when they arrived at the place of the snakes, the king said to them, send one of his chicks on the snakes. And they sent one of his chicks as the king said, and the children of the Hasida ran after the snakes, and they all ate them, and they were banished from that place. And the king and the people saw that all the snakes were blown away from that place, and all the people gave a great shout. And they approached and fought on the city and it was captured and captured, and they came to the city. And one thousand and one hundred men of the people of the city died that day, all the inhabitants of the city, and not one of the besieged people died. And all the sons of Cush came, every man to his house, and to his wife, and to his sons, and to all that he had.

~236~ And Balaam the magician saw that the city was captured and the gate was opened and he and his two sons and eight brothers fled, and returned from Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. They are the witches and sorcerers written in the book of the Torah who stand against Moses, when God brought all the plagues on Egypt. And Moses captured the city with his wisdom, and the sons of Cush placed him on the royal throne under Cycanus, king of Cush. And they put the royal crown on his head, and gave him her mistress, the Kushite queen, Cycanus' wife. And Moses feared the Lord God of his fathers, and did not come to her nor did he turn his eyes to her. Because Moses remembered what Abraham swore to his servant Eliezer, saying, You shall not take a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of Canaan. And this is what Isaac did in the spirit of Jacob before his brothers, who commanded him to say that you shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan and you shall not marry any of the sons of Ham. Because the Lord our God gave Ham and his sons and all his descendants as slaves to the sons of Shem and the sons of Japheth and their descendants after them forever. That is why Moses did not turn his heart and eyes to the wife of Cycanus, all the days of his reign over Cush. And Moses feared the Lord his God all his days, and Moses walked before the Lord in truth with all his heart and with all his soul. Moses did not deviate from the good path all his life, he did not deviate from the path that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob walked right and left. And Moshe became strong in the kingdom of the children of Cush and led the children of Cush according to his wisdom, and Moshe was successful in his kingdom. And the sons of Aram and the sons of Kedem heard at that time that Cycanus, king of Cush, had died, and Aram and the sons of Kedem fell under the hand of Cush in those days. And Moses gathered together all the children of Cush with a very heavy people, about thirty thousand men, and went out to fight Aram and the children of Kedem. And all my ancestors heard their voice, and went out to meet them and made war with them. And the war against the Bnei Kedem intensified, and God gave all the Bnei Kedem into the hand of Moses, and about three hundred of them fell dead. And all the children of Kedem gave a rear and fled, and Moses and the children of Cush chased after them and subdued them under their hand and gave them tribute according to their judgment.

~237~ And Moses and all the people who were with him moved from there to the land of Aram for war. And the people of Aram also went out to meet them and fought with them, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Moses, and many of the people of Aram fell dead. And they also submitted Aram before Moses and before Cush, and they also paid tribute according to their judgment. And Moses subdued Aram and the children of Kedem under the hand of the children of Cush, and Moses and all the people who were with him lived in the land of Cush. And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of Cush. And God was with him, and all the children of Cush were afraid of him. And it came to pass at the end of years, that Saul the king of Edom died, and Baal Hanan the son of Habur reigned in his stead. In the sixteenth year of the reign of Moses over Cush, Baal Hanan son of Edom was king in the land of Edom over all the children of Edom for thirty-eight years. In his days the crime of Moab was under the hand of Edom, who were under the hand of Edom, in the days of Hadad son of Bedad who struck them and Midian and subdued Moab under the hand of Edom. And it came to pass when Baalhanan the son of Achabur reigned over the children of Edom, that all the children of Moab fell under the hand of Edom. And Angias, king of Africa, died in those days, and his son Azadrubal reigned in his stead. And in those days Janyush, king of the sons of the Kitites, died, and they buried him in his palace which he built for him in the valley of Kanafia for a seat, and Tianus reigned under him. In the twenty-second year of Moses' reign over the children of Cush, Letianus reigned over all the children of the Kitites for forty-five years. And he also built for him a very large and enormous tower, and inside it he built a handsome hall for his seat to act in his kingdom as a judgment. In the third year of his reign, he sent a call to all his sages, and they would make many ships for him. And Tianus will gather all his army and they will come in ships, and they will go to fight with Ezdrubal son of Angias, king of Africa. And they will come to Africa, and make war with Ezdrubal and his army. And Latianus strengthened against Ezdrubal, and he captured for Tianus from Ezdrubal the water canal that Angias his father had brought from the sons of Kitim, in which he took Jania the daughter of Uzi as a wife, and Ltianus destroyed the bridge of that canal and struck the entire army of Ezdrubal with a great blow. And the other heroes of Ezdrubal grew stronger and their hearts were filled with envy and desired death, and they waged another war with Latianus, king of the Chitites. And the war will be strong on all the people of Africa and they will all fall dead before Letianus, and King Ezdrubal will also fall in that war.

~238~ King Ezdrubal had a very beautiful daughter, and her name was Usphiziona. And all the people of Africa embroidered her image on their clothes because of her beauty and the goodness of her appearance. And the men of Latianus saw Osphiziona daughter of Ezdrubal and praised her to Latianus their king. And he ordered Latianus and brought her to him, and Latianus took her hospitality as a wife and Japan and went on his way. And it came to pass after the death of Ezdrubal son of Angias, when Tianus returned from the war to his country. And all the inhabitants of Africa arose and took Anibal son of Angias, the younger brother of Ezdrubal, and made him king under his brother over all the land of Africa. And it happened in his reign that he advised to go as an orphan to fight the sons of Kitim to avenge the revenge of his brother Ezdrubal, and the revenge of the inhabitants of Africa, and he did so. And he will make many ships and will come in them with all his troops and go to Timah. And Hannibal fought the sons of Kitim and the men of Kitim fell martyrs before Hannibal and killed him, and Hannibal avenged his brother's revenge. And Hannibal fought eighteen battles with the Hittites, and Hannibal dwelt in the land of Hittites and graced it for many days. And Anibal struck the sectarians with a very great blow and killed their leaders and their ministers, and the majority of the people struck about eighty thousand men. And it came to pass after many days and years and Japan, and Anibal returned to his country Africa, and he will surely reign in Africa under his brother. At that time, in the year one hundred and eighty years after Israel came down from Egypt, and there came out of Egypt thirty thousand foot soldiers from Egypt, and they were all from the tribe of Joseph, from the sons of Ephraim son of Joseph. Because they said that the end which God had decreed for the children of Israel from ancient times, which he had spoken to Abraham, had ended. And these people gathered themselves together and put a man's sword on his thigh and a man's weapon of war on him, and they trusted in their valor, and they came out of Egypt together with a strong hand. And they didn't take out with them on the road only silver and gold, and they didn't take out any bread to eat that day either. Because they said to take their livelihood from the Philistines at a price and if not and took from them by possession. And those men are very, very brave heroes. One will chase a thousand and two will try to overcome, and they will trust in their heroism and go together when they die.

~239~ And they set their faces to the land of Gath, and they went down and found the herdsmen of Gath shepherding the abode of the children of Gath. And they said to the shepherds, give us some of the sheep for a price to eat because we are hungry because we have not eaten bread today. And the shepherds said, Our sheep are nesting mothers because we will give you even at a price. And the children of Ephraim came forward and took possession. And the herdsmen of Gath cried out over them, and their cry was heard afar off, and all the children of Gath went out to them. And the children of Gath saw the evil of the children of Ephraim and returned and called all the people of Gath, and each man girded on his weapons of war and went out to the children of Ephraim to fight. And they waged war with them in the valley of Gath, and the war was strong and they beat many of them that day. And it came to pass on the second day, that the sons of Gath sent to all the cities of the Philistines to come to them for help as stated. Come up to us and help us and we will defeat the children of Ephraim who came out of Egypt to take our place and fight with us for nothing. And the children of Ephraim were weary of hunger and thirst, because they did not eat bread for three days. And about forty thousand men came out from all the cities of the Philistines to help the people of Gath. And these men made war against the children of Ephraim, and God gave the children of Ephraim into the hands of the Philistines. And they smote all the children of Ephraim, all who came out of Egypt, they did not leave a remnant, but ten men who fled from the system of war. Because this evil was from God to the children of Ephraim, because they perverted God's mouth to come out of Egypt before the end came which God decreed for Israel from ancient times. And many Philistines also fell, about twenty thousand men, and their brothers will sleep and they will bury them in their cities. And victims of Ephraim remained abandoned in the valley of Gat for many days and years and were not allowed to be buried, and the entire valley was full of people's bones. And the people who escaped from the war came from Egypt, and told the Israelites all that happened to them. And Ephraim their father mourned for them many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. And he came to his wife and gave birth to a son and called his name Beriah, because Beriah was in his house. And Moses son of Amram was still king in the land of Cush in those days, and he was successful in his kingdom and led all the kingdoms of the children of Cush in justice and righteousness. And all the children of Cush loved Moses all the days they reigned over them, and all the inhabitants of the land of Cush were in awe of him.

~240~ And it happened in the fortieth year of Moshe's reign over Cush and Moshe was sitting on the royal throne, and the queen Adania was before him and all the ministers were sitting around him. And Adania the queen said before the king and the ministers, what is the thing that you have done, all the children of Cush, for many days. Did you not know that for forty years that he reigned over Cush, he did not come near me and did not serve the God of the children of Cush. And now hearken, O children of Cush, and let not this one, who is not of your flesh, reign over you any longer. Behold, my son Gadel will be born, and he will reign over you, for it is better for you to serve the son of your master than to serve a foreigner, the servant of the king of Egypt. And all the people and all the ministers of the sons of Cush heard all the things that her lord the queen spoke in their ears. And all the people stayed true until the evening, and they woke up in the morning, and Nacherus son of Cycanus, king of Cush, reigned over them. And all the children of Cush saw the handing of Moses because God was with Moses and because the children of Cush remembered the oath they had sworn to Moses, therefore they did not harm him, but all the children of Cush gave many gifts to Moses and sent him away with great honor. And Moses left the land of Cush and went his way, and ceased to reign over Cush. And Moses was seven years old and sixty years old when he left the land of Cush. Because what was the matter, because the end has come which was from ancient times to bring Israel out of the poverty of the children of Ham. And Moses went to Madinah because he was afraid to return from Egypt from Pharaoh, and he went and sat at the well of water in Madinah. And the seven daughters of Reuel the Midini went out to tend their father's sheep, and they came to the well and drew water to water their father's sheep. And the shepherds of Midian came and grazed, and Moses stood up and saved them and watered the flock. And they came to Reuel their father, and told him what Moses had done for them. And an Egyptian man said to us, "We have saved us from the hand of the shepherds, and we have also watered the sheep." And Reuel said to his daughters, "Why is it that you have left the man?" And he sent for Reuel, and they took him and brought him home with him, and he ate bread with him. And Moses told Reuel how he fled from Egypt, and how he reigned over Cush for forty years. And after that they took the kingdom from him, and sent him away with honor and gifts. And it came to pass when Reuel heard the words of Moses, and Reuel said in his heart, I will give it to the house of the prison, and I will kill the children of Cush in it, for a miracle has come before them. And they took him and put him in the prison, and Moshe was in the prison for ten years. And it came to pass while Moses was in the prison, that a bird of Reuel's daughter tormented him, and his provision was bread and water all the days. And all the children of Israel are still in the land of Egypt working the Egyptians in all hard work, and the hand of Egypt is getting harder and harder on the children of Israel in those days.

~241~ At that time, God struck Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and God afflicted him with the plague of leprosy from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head, because of the hard work of the Israelites, this plague was given to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, by God at that time. Because God heard the prayer of his people, the Israelites, and your cry came to him because of their hard work. And yet he did not turn away from them, and Pharaoh's hand was bent on the children of Israel, and Pharaoh stiffened his neck before God and made his burden heavy on all the children of Israel and made their lives bitter with every hard work. And it happened when God touched Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and asked his wise men and his priests to heal him. His wise men and his foremen said to him that if he gave the blood of little children to that plague and he would be cured. And Pharaoh listened to them, and sent his eunuch Goshana to the Israelites to take their little children. And Pharaoh's eunuchs went and took the children of the Israelites from their mother's bosom by force, and brought them to Pharaoh day by day. A child for a day, a child for a day and the doctors will seal and give to the lesion, that's how they will do all the days. And the number of children that Pharaoh slaughtered was three hundred and seventy-five children. And God did not listen to the physicians of the king of Egypt, and the plague grew stronger and more numerous. And Pharaoh was sick with that plague for ten years, and Pharaoh's heart became harder and harder for the Israelites. And it came to pass at the end of ten years, that Joseph, God, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, broke upon broken and blow upon blow. And God struck with a bad boil and stomach ailments, and that plague turned into a bad boil. At that time, two of Pharaoh's eunuchs came from the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, and they came to Pharaoh's house and said to him, "Look, we have seen the Israelites slack off from their work and become lazy in their work." And when Pharaoh heard the words of his eunuchs, Pharaoh was also very angry with the Israelites because he was very saddened by the pain in his flesh. And he answered and said, But now behold, when the children of Israel knew that I am sick, and they returned and mocked us. And now hasten and forbid the chariot for me and I will go to Goshana and I will see the mockery of the children of Israel, who are mocking and mocking me. And his servants forbade him the chariot and took him and put him on the horse, because he could not ride. And he took with him twenty horsemen and ten footmen, and went to the children of Israel in Goshen.

~242~ And when they went to the end of Egypt, the king's horse passed through a narrow and high place in the ditch of the vineyards, a fence on this side and a fence on this side, and the depth of the land and the lowland on this side. And the horses hurried and ran in that place and pushed each other, and the horses pushed the king's horse. And the king's horse fell into the deep and low, and the king rode on it. And when he fell, the chariot overturned in front of the king, and the horse sat on the king, and the king cried out because his flesh was sore. And the king's flesh was torn upon him, and his bones were broken, and he could not ride, for this word was from God to him, because God heard the cry of his people, the children of Israel, and the poor. And his servants carried him on their shoulders a little this and a little that and brought him back from Egypt, and the horsemen who were with him also returned from Egypt. And they laid the king in his bed, and the king knew that his end had come to die, and the queen, his wife, came and wept before the king, and the king wept with her with great weeping. And all his ministers and servants came on that day, and saw the king in that evil and wept with him. And the king's ministers and all his advisers counseled the king to make whoever he chooses from among his sons to reign under him in the land. And the king had three sons and two daughters born to him by his wife, the Queen Afranite, besides the sons of the king's concubines. And those whose names are dead, the first-born Atri and the second Adikum and the third Morion. and their sisters, the older name Bethia and the younger Akuzit. And Atari, the king's firstborn, was a foolish and frightened man, and hurried in all his words. And Adikem was a naked and very wise man, and knew all the wisdom of Egypt. But he was very bad in title and thick of flesh and very short in stature, and his mother and sister-in-law were tall. And when the king saw his pious son naked and wise in everything, the king put it in his heart to make him king under him after his death. And he took to him Gadida daughter of Avilet as a wife, and he was ten years old and bore him four sons. And he went after that, and took three wives and fathered eight sons and three daughters. And the sick man became very strong on the king, and his flesh dried up like the flesh of the space thrown on the surface of the field in the summer to the heat of the sun. And the king saw that his illness was very strong for him, and he commanded that they take their pious son to him, and make him king under him in the land. And it came to pass at the end of three days, that the king died in shame and shame and disgrace. And his servants carried him and buried him in the tombs of the kings of Egypt, in the gypsy of Egypt. And they did not embalm him according to the law of the kings, because the Baish was very fleshy and they could not approach him to embalm him because of the smell and they buried him in a panic. Because this evil was from God to him because God paid him evil like his evil, which he did to Israel in his days. And he died in panic and disgrace, and his righteous son reigned under him.

~243~ Adikum was twenty-two years old during his reign over Egypt, four years he reigned. In the year two hundred and six years, Israel descends from Egypt, the king of Adikum over Egypt. And he did not prolong the days of his kingdom over Egypt, when his ancestors prolonged their kingdom. Because his father Melol reigned in Egypt for ninety-four years, but he was ill for ten years and died, because he was very guilty before God. And all the Egyptians will call the name of their pious pharaoh as the name of his ancestors as their judgment to do in Egypt. And all the sages of Pharaoh called the name of their ancestor Achuz because it was very short, because Achuz would be called short in the Egyptian language. And Adikum was very bad in title, and he had a mother and a ringlet, and he had a great beard that reached to his ankles. And Pharaoh sat on his father's throne as king over Egypt, and ruled the kingdom of Egypt with his wisdom. And it came to pass in his reign, that he condemned his father and all the kings that were before him, and made his burden very heavy on the children of Israel. And he went with his servants Goshana to the children of Israel, and strengthened the work for them. And he said to them, your works are done day by day and do not turn your hands away from our work from this day forward as you did in the days of my father. And he placed over Israel policemen from among the Israelites, and his slaves approached the policemen there. And he put on them the pattern of bricks per day to do like that number every day, and Japan and sat down from Egypt. At that time Pharaoh's servants ordered the policemen of the Israelites according to Pharaoh to say. This is what Pharaoh said, do your work day by day and complete your works and keep the pattern of the bricks for the day and do not detract from anything. And it will be that you will cut off your children day by day, and I will put your little children under them. And Pharaoh's servants did so in those days, when Pharaoh commanded them. And it was at all times that the children of Israel lacked from the form of whites day by day, and Pharaoh's men went to the women of the children of Israel. And they took the number that was subtracted from the bricks from the little children of the children of Israel and took them by force from the knees of their mothers, and they put them under the bricks in the building. And their fathers and mothers shout at them and cry, hearing the sound of their children crying against the wall of the building.

~244~ And those who approached Israel were strengthened to give Israel their sons in the building, and the man put his son against the wall and put material on him and his eyes wept for him and his tears fell on his son. And the pharaohs did this to the children of Israel for many days, and there was no mercy and no mercy to the children of the children of Israel. And the number of all the children killed in the building was two hundred and seventy children. Of those who built on them under the bricks that their fathers lacked, and of those who pulled them dead from the building. And the work on the children of Israel in their pious days will be strengthened and honored, from the work they worked in the days of his father. And the children of Israel groaned day by day from the hard work that was upon them, for they said, Behold, Pharaoh died, and our son arose, and lightened the work upon us. But they make the last work stronger for them than the first, and the children of Israel will sigh from this and their praise will go up to God from the work. And G-d heard the voice of the children of Israel and their strife in those days, and G-d reminded them of His covenant which He made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God saw the sufferings of the children of Israel and their hard work on them in those days, and He said to save them. And Moshe ben Amram was still imprisoned in a pit in those days in the house of Reuel the Midini, and Tzipora daughter of Reuel from his household bread secretly every day. And Moshe was imprisoned in Beit Reuel in a pit for ten years. And at the end of ten years, it is the first year of Pharaoh's reign over Egypt under his father. And Zipporah said to Reuel her father, the Hebrew man whom you have imprisoned for ten years in the prison and there is no demander and no seeker for him. And now, if it is good in your eyes, my father, please be sent and we will see if he lives and if he dies, and her father did not know because she is his treasure. And Reuel her father answered and said to her, Let it be like this to detain the man in the prison for ten years and he will not eat and live. And a bird answered her father saying, haven't you heard, my lord, that the God of the Hebrews is great and terrible, and he is a wonder to them at all times. He is the one who saved Abraham from the light of the Chaldeans and Isaac from his father's destruction, and Jacob from the angel of God in his struggle with him at the Yabok pass. And with this man he did many things and saved him from the light of Egypt and the sword of Pharaoh and the children of Cush, and he was also able to save and revive him from hunger. And the thing pleased Reuel, and he did as his daughter said, and sent to the pit to see what was done to Moshe. And Moses looked and behold, the man was alive in the pit, standing on his feet praising and begging the God of his ancestors. And Reuel ordered, and they took Moses out of the pit and shaved him and he changed his prison clothes and ate bread.