Chapter 68
60. And Pharaoh ordered his officers daily to go to Goshen to seek for the babes of the children of Israel.
61. And when they sought and found one, they took it from its mother's bosom by force, and threw it into the river; but the female child they left with its mother. Thus did the Egyptians to the Israelites all those days.
1. AND it was at that time the Spirit of God was upon Miriam, the daughter of Amram and sister of Aaron, and she went forth and prophecied about the house, saying: Behold a son will be born unto us from my father and mother this time, and he will save Israel from the hands of Egypt.
2. And when Amram heard the words of his daughter, he went and took his wife back to the house, after he had driven her away at the time when Pharaoh ordered every male child of the house of Jacob to be thrown into the water.
3. So Amram took Jochebed his wife, three years after he had driven her away, and he came to her and she conceived.
4. And at the end of seven months from her conception she brought forth a son, and the whole house was filled with a great light as of the light of the sun and moon at the time of their shining.
5. And when the woman saw the child that it was good and pleasing to the sight, she hid it for three months in an inner room.
6. In those days the Egyptians conspired to destroy all the Hebrews there.
7. And the Egyptian women went to Goshen where the children of Israel were, and they carried their young ones upon their shoulders, their babes who could not yet speak.
8. And in those days, when the women of the children of Israel brought forth, each woman had hidden her son from before the Egyptians, that the Egyptians might not know of their bringing forth, and might not destroy them from the land.
9. And the Egyptian women came to Goshen, and their children who could not speak were upon their shoulders, and when an Egyptian woman came into the house of a Hebrew woman, her babe began to cry.
10. And when it cried, the child that was in the inner room answered it; so the Egyptian women went and told it at the house of Pharaoh.
11. And Pharaoh sent his officers to take the children and slay them. Thus did the Egyptians to the Hebrew women all the days.
12. And it was at that time, about three months from Jochebed's concealment of her son, that it became known in Pharaoh's house.
13. And the woman hastened to take away her son before the officers came, and she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
14. And his sister Miriam stood afar off to know what would be done to him, and what would become of her words [see 68, v. 1 ].
15. And God sent forth at that time a terrible heat in the land of Egypt, which burned up the flesh of man like the sun in his circuit, and it greatly oppressed the Egyptians.
16. And all the Egyptians went down to bathe in the river on account of the consuming heat which burned up their flesh.
17. And Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, went also to bathe in the river, owing to the consuming heat, and her maidens walked at the riverside and all the women of Egypt as well [in respectful attendance to Bathia ].
18. And Bathia lifted up her eyes to the river, and she saw the ark upon the water, and sent her maid to fetch it.
19. And she opened it and saw the child, and behold the babe wept, and she had compassion of him, and she said, this is one of the Hebrew children.
20. And all the women of Egypt, walking on the riverside, desired to give him suck, but he would not suck, for this thing was from the Lord in order to restore him to his mother's breast.
21. And his sister Miriam was at that time amongst the Egyptian women at the river sid e. She saw this thing and said to Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and fetch a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
22. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go! And the young woman went and called the child's own mother.
23. And Pharaoh's daughter said to Jochebed, take this child away and suckle it for me, and I will pay thee thy wages, two bits of silver daily; and the woman took the child and nursed it.
24. And at the end of two years, when the child grew up, she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he was unto her as a son, and she called his name Moses [drawing out], for she said, because I drew him out of the water.
25. And Amram his father called his name Chabar [fellow, comrade], for he said, it was for him that he asso-