Chapter 66
to work on account of the wages not being given to them, then the exactors and the servants of Pharaoh oppressed them and smote them with heavy blows, and made them return by force, to labor with their brethren; thus did all the Egyptians unto the children of Israel all the days.
30. And all the children of Israel were greatly afraid of the Egyptians in this matter, and all the children of Israel returned and worked alone without pay.
31. And the children of Israel built Pithom and Rameses, and all the children of Israel did the work, some making bricks, and some building, and the children of Israel built and fortified all the land of Egypt and its walls, and the children of Israel were engaged in work for many years, until the time came when the Lord remembered them and brought them out of Egypt.
32. But the children of Levi were not employed in the work with their brethren of Israel, from the beginning unto the day of their going forth from Egypt.
33. For all the children of Levi knew that the Egyptians had spoken all these words with deceit to the Israelites, therefore the children of Levi refrained from approaching the work in which their brethren labored .
34. And the Egyptians did not direct their attention to make the children of Levi work afterward, since they had not been with their brethren at the beginning, therefore the Egyptians left them alone.
35. And the hands of the men of Egypt were directed with continued severity against the children of Israel in that work, and the Egyptians made the children of Israel work with rigor.
36. And the Egyptians embittered the lives of the children of Israel with hard work, in making mortar and bricks, and also in all manner of work in the field.
37. And the children of Israel called Melol the king of Egypt: Meror king of Egypt; because in his days the Egyptians had embittered [meror] their lives with all manner of work.
38. And all the work wherein the Egyptians made the children of Israel labor, was exacted by them with rigor, in order to afflict the children of Israel, but the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and grew, and seeing this the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of Israel.
1. At that time Hadad died, the son of king Bedad of Edom, and Samlah from Mesrekah, from the country of the children of the east, reigned in his place.
2. In the thirteenth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, which was the hundred and twenty fifth year of the Israelites going down into Egypt, Samlah had reigned over Edom eighteen years.
3. And when he reigned, he drew forth his hosts to go and fight against Zepho the son of Eliphaz and the children of Chittim, because they had made war against king Angeas of Africa and had destroyed his whole army.
4. But he did not engage with him, for the children of Esau prevented him, saying he was their brother, so Samlah listened to the voice of the children of Esau, and turned back with all his forces to the land of Edom, and did not proceed to fight against Zepho, the son of Eliphaz.
5. And Pharaoh king of Egypt heard this thing, saying, king Samlah of Edom has resolved to fight the children of Chittim, and afterward he will come to fight against Egypt.
6. And when the Egyptians heard this matter, they increased the labor upon the children of Israel, lest the Israelites should do unto them as they did unto them in their war against the children of Esau in the days of Hadad.
7. So the Egyptians said unto the children of Israel, hasten and do your work, and finish your task, and strengthen the land, lest the children of Esau your brethren should come to fight against us, for on your account will they come against us.
8. And the children of Israel did the work of the men of Egypt day by day, and the Egyptians afflicted the children of Israel in order to lessen them in the land.
9. But as the Egyptians increased the labor upon the children of Israel, so did the children of Israel increase and multiply, and all of Egypt was filled with the children of Israel.
10. And in the hundred and twenty fifth year of Israel's going down into Egypt, all the Egyptians saw that their counsel did not succeed against Israel, but that they increased and grew, and the land of Egypt and the land of Goshen were filled with the children of Israel.
11. So all the elders of Egypt and its wise men came before the king and bowed down to him and sat before him.
12. And all the elders of Egypt and the wise men thereof said unto the king, may the king live forever; thou adviced us the counsel against the children of Israel, and we did unto them according to the word of the king.
13. But in proportion to the increase of the labor so do they increase and grow in the land, and behold