THERE was a man in the land of Mitsrayim of the seed of Leviy, whose name was Amram, the son of Qohath, the son of Leviy, the son of Yashar'el.
And this man went and took a woman, namely Yokeved the daughter of Leviy his father's sister, and she was one hundred and twenty six years old, and he came unto her.
And the woman conceived and bore a daughter, and she called her name Miryam, because in those days the Mitsriym had embittered the lives of the children of Yashar'el.
And she conceived again and bore a son and she called his name Aharon, for in the days of her conception, Phar'oh began to spill the blood of the male children of Yashar'el.
In those days died Tsepho the son of Eliyphaz, son of Esau, king of Kittiym, and Janeas reigned in his stead.
And the time that Tsepho reigned over the children of Kittiym was fifty years, and he died and was buried in the city of Nabna in the land of Kittiym.
And Janeas, one of the mighty men of the children of Kittiym, reigned after him and he reigned fifty years.
And it was after the death of the king of Kittiym that Bil`am the son of Be`or fled from the land of Kittiym, and he went and came to Mitsrayim to Phar'oh king of Mitsrayim.
And Phar'oh received him with great honor, for he had heard of his wisdom, and he gave him presents and made him for a counselor, and aggrandized him.
And Bil'am dwelt in Mitsrayim, in honor with all the nobles of the king, and the nobles exalted him, because they all coveted to learn his wisdom.
And in the hundred and thirtieth year of Yashar'el's going down to Mitsrayim, Phar'oh dreamed that he was sitting upon his kingly throne, and lifted up his eyes and saw an old man standing before him, and there were scales in the hands of the old man, such scales as are used by merchants.
And the old man took the scales and hung them before Phar'oh.
And the old man took all the elders of Mitsrayim and all its nobles and great men, and he tied them together and put them in one scale.
And he took a milk kid and put it into the other scale, and the kid preponderated over all.
And Phar'oh was astonished at this dreadful vision, why the kid should preponderate over all, and Phar'oh awoke and behold it was a dream.
And Phar'oh rose up early in the morning and called all his servants and related to them the dream, and the men were greatly afraid.
And the king said to all his wise men, Interpret I pray you the dream which I dreamed, that I may know it.
And Bil'am the son of Be'or answered the king and said unto him, This means nothing else but a great evil that will spring up against Mitsrayim in the latter days.
For a son will be born to Yashar'el who will destroy all Mitsrayim and its inhabitants, and bring forth Yashar'el from Mitsrayim with a mighty hand.
Now therefore, O king, take counsel upon this matter, that you may destroy the hope of the children of Yashar'el and their expectation, before this evil arise against Mitsrayim.
And the king said unto Bil'am, And what shall we do unto Yashar'el? surely after a certain manner did we at first counsel against them and could not prevail over them.
Now therefore give you also advice against them by which we may prevail over them.
And Bil'am answered the king, saying, Send now and call your two counselors, and we will see what their advice is upon this matter and afterward your servant will speak.
And the king sent and called his two counselors Re'u'el the Midyaniy and Iyov the Utsiy, and they came and sat before the king.
And the king said to them, Behold you have both heard the dream which I have dreamed, and the interpretation thereof; now therefore give counsel and know and see what is to be done to the children of Yashar'el, whereby we may prevail over them, before their evil shall spring up against us.
And Re'u'el the Midyaniy answered the king and said, May the king live, may the king live forever.
If it seem good to the king, let him desist from the Ivriym and leave them, and let him not stretch forth his hand against them.
For these are they whom Yahuah chose in days of old, and took as the lot of his inheritance from amongst all the nations of the earth and the kings of the earth; and who is there that stretched his hand against them with impunity, of whom their Elohiym was not avenged?
Surely you know that when Avraham went down to Mitsrayim, Phar'oh, the former king of Mitsrayim, saw Sarah his woman, and took her for a woman, because Avraham said, She is my sister, for he was afraid, lest the men of Mitsrayim should slay him on account of his woman.
And when the king of Mitsrayim had taken Sarah then Elohiym smote him and his household with heavy plagues, until he restored unto Avraham his woman Sarah, then was he healed.
And Aviymelek the Gerariy, king of the Pelishtiym, Elohiym punished on account of Sarah woman of Avraham, in stopping up every womb from man to beast.
When their Elohiym came to Aviymelek in the dream of night and terrified him in order that he might restore to Avraham Sarah whom he had taken, and afterward all the people of Gerar were punished on account of Sarah, and Avraham prayed to his Elohiym for them, and he was intreated of him, and he healed them.
And Aviymelek feared all this evil that came upon him and his people, and he returned to Avraham his woman Sarah, and gave him with her many gifts.
He did so also to Yitschaq when he had driven him from Gerar, and Elohiym had done wonderful things to him, that all the water courses of Gerar were dried up, and their productive trees did not bring forth.
Until Aviymelek of Gerar, and Achuzzath one of his friends, and Piykol the captain of his host, went to him and they bent and bowed down before him to the ground.
And they requested of him to supplicate for them, and he prayed to Yahuah for them, and Yahuah was entreated of him and he healed them.
Ya`aqov also, the plain man, was delivered through his integrity from the hand of his brother Esau, and the hand of Lavan the Arammiy his mother's brother, who had sought his life; likewise from the hand of all the kings of Kena`an who had come together against him and his children to destroy them, and Yahuah delivered them out of their hands, that they turned upon them and smote them, for who had ever stretched forth his hand against them with impunity?
Surely Phar'oh the former, your father's father, raised Yoceph the son of Ya`aqov above all the princes of the land of Mitsrayim, when he saw his wisdom, for through his wisdom he rescued all the inhabitants of the land from the famine.
After which he ordered Ya`aqov and his children to come down to Mitsrayim, in order that through their virtue, the land of Mitsrayim and the land of Goshen might be delivered from the famine.
Now therefore if it seem good in your eyes, cease from destroying the children of Yashar'el, but if it be not your will that they shall dwell in Mitsrayim, send them forth from here, that they may go to the land of Kena`an, the land where their ancestors sojourned.
And when Phar'oh heard the words of Yithro he was very angry with him, so that he rose with shame from the king's presence, and went to Midyan, his land, and took Yoceph's stick with him.
And the king said to Iyov the Utsiy, What say you Iyov, and what is your advice respecting the Ivriym?
So Iyov said to the king, Behold all the inhabitants of the land are in your power, let the king do as it seems good in his eyes.
And the king said unto Bil'am, What do you say, Bil'am, speak your word that we may hear it.
And Bil'am said to the king, Of all that the king has counseled against the Ivriym will they be delivered, and the king will not be able to prevail over them with any counsel.
For if you think to lessen them by the flaming fire, you cannot prevail over them, for surely their Elohiym delivered Avraham their father from Ur of the Kasdiym; and if you think to destroy them with a sword, surely Yitschaq their father was delivered from it, and a ram was placed in his stead.
And if with hard and rigorous labor you think to lessen them, you will not prevail even in this, for their father Ya`aqov served Lavan in all manner of hard work, and prospered.
Now therefore, O King, hear my words, for this is the counsel which is counseled against them, by which you will prevail over them, and from which you should not depart.
If it please the king let him order all their children which shall be born from this day forward, to be thrown into the water, for by this can you wipe away their name, for none of them, nor of their fathers, were tried in this manner.
And the king heard the words of Bil'am, and the thing pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Bil'am.
And the king ordered a proclamation to be issued and a law to be made throughout the land of Mitsrayim, saying, Every male child born to the Ivriym from this day forward shall be thrown into the water.
And Phar'oh called unto all his servants, saying, Go now and seek throughout the land of Goshen where the children of Yashar'el are, and see that every son born to the Ivriym shall be cast into the river, but every daughter you shall let live.
And when the children of Yashar'el heard this thing which Phar'oh had commanded, to cast their male children into the river, some of the people separated from their women and others adhered to them.
And from that day forward, when the time of delivery arrived to those women of Yashar'el who had remained with their men, they went to the field to bring forth there, and they brought forth in the field, and left their children upon the field and returned home.
And Yahuah who had sworn to their ancestors to multiply them, sent one of his ministering angels which are in heaven to wash each child in water, to anoint and swathe it and to put into its hands two smooth stones from one of which it sucked milk and from the other honey, and he caused its hair to grow to its knees, by which it might cover itself; to comfort it and to cleave to it, through his compassion for it.
And when Elohiym had compassion over them and had desired to multiply them upon the face of the land, he ordered his earth to receive them to be preserved therein till the time of their growing up, after which the earth opened its mouth and vomited them forth and they sprouted forth from the city like the herb of the earth, and the grass of the forest, and they returned each to his family and to his father's house, and they remained with them.
And the babes of the children of Yashar'el were upon the earth like the herb of the field, through Elohiym's grace to them.
And when all the Mitsriym saw this thing, they went forth, each to his field with his yoke of oxen and his plowshare, and they plowed it up as one plows the earth at seed time.
And when they plowed they were unable to hurt the infants of the children of Yashar'el, so the people increased and waxed exceedingly.
And Phar'oh ordered his officers daily to go to Goshen to seek for the babes of the children of Yashar'el.
And when they had 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 Mitsriym do to Yashar'el all the days.