BIBLICAL ANTIQUITIES

A will be dried up. And I will do signs through him, and I will save My people, and he himself will always lead them. And when Miriam had explained her dream, her parents did not believe her. But the word of the Egyptian king grew strong against the children of Israel, and they were humiliated, burdened in the work of bricks. But Jochebed conceived from Amram, and hid him in her womb for three months: for she could no longer hide him, because the king of Egypt had placed princes over the places, so that when Hebrew women gave birth, they would immediately cast their males into the river. And she took her infant, and made
A basket is in Exodus, Ch. 2 a basket of papyrus from the bark of a pine tree, and placed it in the mouth of the river. But the boy himself was born in the testament of God, and in the testament of his flesh. And it happened that when they were casting him, all the elders gathered, arguing with Amram, saying: Were those not our words, which we spoke, saying: It is better for us to die without children than for the fruit of our womb to be cast into the waters? And while they were saying these things, Amram did not listen. But the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash in the river, according to what she had seen in her sleep, and her maids saw the chest, and one sent, and took it, and opened it. And as she saw the boy, and when she had seen in zaticon the sign of the covenant (circumcision), that is, in the testament of the flesh, she said: He is of the sons of the Hebrews. And she took and nourished him, and
Moses. he became her son, and she named his name Moses. But his mother called him Melchiel. And the infant was nourished, and he became glorious above all men, and God liberated the children of Israel through him, just as He had said. But when the king of the Egyptians died, another king rose up, and afflicted all the people of Israel. But they cried out to the Lord, and He heard them. And He sent Moses, and liberated them from the land of the Egyptians. God also sent ten plagues upon them, and struck them. But these were the plagues, that is: blood, and frogs, hail, and the death of cattle, locusts, and lice, and untamable darkness, and the mortality of the firstborn. And while they had gone out from there,

B and were setting out, the heart of the Egyptians was still hardened, and they set out to pursue them, and they found them near the Red Sea. And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord their God, and they said to Moses, saying: Behold now the time of our destruction arrives: for the sea is before us, and the multitude of enemies is behind us, and we are in the middle. For this did God lead us out, or are these the testaments which He disposed for our fathers, saying: To your seed I will give the land which you inhabit, so that now He does in us what is pleasing before His sight? Then, considering the fear of the time, the children of Israel divided their opinions into three divisions of counsel: for the tribe of Reuben, and the tribe of Issachar, and the tribe of Zebulun, and the tribe of Simeon said: Come, let us throw ourselves into the sea. For it is better for us to die in the water than to be killed by the enemies. But the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Asher, and the tribe of Dan, and Naphtali said: No, but let us return with them, and if they are willing to grant us life, we will serve them. For the tribe of Levi, and the tribe of Judah, and Joseph, and the tribe of Benjamin said: Not so, but taking our weapons, let us fight with them, and God will be with us. Moses also cried out to the Lord, and said: Lord God of our fathers, did You not say to me: Go, and say to the children of Israel, God sent me to you? And now behold, You have brought Your people to the lip of the sea, and the enemies have pursued after them, and You, Lord, be mindful of Your name. And God said: Because you have cried out to Me, take your staff, and strike the sea, and it will be dried up. And Moses doing all these things, God threatened the sea, and the sea was dried. And the walls of the waters stood, and the depths of the earth appeared, and the foundations of the dwelling were laid bare from the roaring of the fear of God, and from the inspiration of the wrath of my Lord. And Israel passed through on dry land in the middle of the sea. And the Egyptians saw, and set out to pursue them, and God hardened their sense, and they did not know that they were entering into the sea. It happened