The Legends of the Jews, Volume II — Chronicle
Ordered by section. No event in this book could be dated from the text, so it is not dated — no anchor, no chronology; a date is never inferred. Time expressions are copied from the text as written. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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Undated
The Favorite Son · Until he was seventeen years old
Until he was seventeen years old, Joseph frequented the Bet ha-Midrash, and he became so learned that he could impart to his brethren the Halakot he had heard from his father, and in this way he may be regarded as their teacher.
The Favorite Son
He was himself sold as a slave, because he had charged his brethren with having called the sons of the handmaids slaves
Joseph Cast Into The Pit · 📍 [[Dothan]] · this day
[[Gabriel]] Joseph
Then Gabriel led Joseph to Dothan.
Joseph Cast Into The Pit
his brethren had stripped him bare before they flung him into the pit. They took off his coat of many colors, his upper garment, his breeches, and his shirt.
The Sale · 📍 [[the pit]]
Joseph the seven Midianitish merchantmen (The Sale)
They all joined together and dragged him up, and took him along with them when they continued on their journey.
The Sale
Joseph [[Gabriel]]
God sent Gabriel down to him, and the angel enlarged the amulet banging from Joseph's neck until it was a garment that covered him entirely.
The Sale
As an atonement for the twenty pieces of silver taken by his brethren in exchange for Joseph, God commanded that every first-born son shall be redeemed by the priest with an equal amount, and, also, every Israelite must pay annually to the sanctuary as much as fell to each of the brethren as his share of the price.
The Sale
Joseph the Ishmaelites (The Sale) the Midianitish merchantmen (The Sale)
And the Ishmaelites bought Joseph from the Midianites, and they paid the same price as his former owners had given for him.
Joseph'S Coat Brought To His Father
He stood at the opening and called again and again, "Joseph, Joseph!" As he received no answer, he concluded that Joseph had perished, either by reason of terror or as the result of a snake bite, and he descended into the pit, only to find that he was not there, either living or dead.
Joseph'S Coat Brought To His Father · on the morrow
Jacob the wolf caught by Jacob's sons (Section 006)
In the wilderness they found a wolf, which they caught and brought to Jacob alive, saying: "Here is the first wild beast we encountered, and we have brought it to thee. But of thy son's corpse we saw not a trace."
Joseph'S Coat Brought To His Father
Jacob the wolf caught by Jacob's sons (Section 006)
Astonished at the speech of the wolf, Jacob let him go, unhindered, whithersoever he would, but he mourned his son Joseph as before.
Joseph'S Coat Brought To His Father
When he spoke concerning this one, "I command you to fall down before Joseph," they all prostrated themselves. He tried the same test with other things, with trees and sheaves, and always the result was the same, and Jacob could not but feel that his suspicion was true, Joseph was alive.
Judah And His Sons · the third day after his wedding
At Judah's desire, Er married Tamar, a daughter of Aram, the son of Shem, but because she was not a Canaanitish woman, his mother used artifices against her, and he did not know her, and an angel of the Lord killed him on the third day after his wedding.
Judah And His Sons · a year after that of her two sons
and her death happened a year after that of her two sons.
Judah And His Sons · 📍 [[the gate of Abraham's tent]] · when the holy spirit revealed to her that Judah was going up to Timnah
Then Judah rose up, and said: "With your permission, my brethren, and ye men of my father's house, I make it known that with what measure a man metes, it shall be measured unto him, be it for good or for evil, but happy the man that acknowledgeth his sins. Because I took the coat of Joseph, and colored it with the blood of a kid, and then laid it at the feet of my father, saying, Know now whether it be thy son's coat or not, therefore must I now confess, before the court, unto whom belongeth this signet, this mantle, and this staff. But it is better that I be put to shame in this world than I should be put to shame in the other world, before the face of my pious father. It is better that I should perish in a fire that can be extinguished than I should be cast into hell fire, which devoureth other fires. Now, then, I acknowledge that Tamar is innocent. By me is she with child, not because she indulged in illicit passion, but because I held back her marriage with my son Shelah."
Joseph The Slave Of Potiphar
he still said he was a slave, only in order not to put his brethren to shame.
Joseph The Slave Of Potiphar · 📍 [[Egypt]] · three months and five days
Joseph the Egyptian shopkeeper
All that he had, his whole house, he put into Joseph's hand
Joseph The Slave Of Potiphar
Potiphar the Egyptian shopkeeper
Potiphar had him stripped naked and beaten
Joseph The Slave Of Potiphar
Potiphar the angel Gabriel
the angel Gabriel mutilated him in such manner that he could not accomplish it.
Joseph And Zuleika
Joseph the unnamed son of Potiphar's wife
Joseph then prayed to God in her behalf, and she bore a son.
Joseph And Zuleika
When Zuleika could not prevail upon him, to persuade him, her desire threw her into a grievous sickness
Joseph And Zuleika · for a whole year
Zuleika, however, was not discouraged; she continued her solicitations unremittingly, day after day, month after month, for a whole year, but always without the least success, for Joseph in his chastity did not permit himself even to look upon her, wherefore she resorted to constraint. She had an iron shackle placed upon his chin, and he was compelled to keep his head up and look her in the face.
Joseph Resists Temptation
Zuleika and Potiphar's child Joseph Zuleika Potiphar
God opened the mouth of Zuleika's child, a babe of but eleven months, and he spoke to the men that were beating Joseph, saying: “What is your quarrel with this man? Why do you inflict such evil upon him? Lies my mother doth speak, and deceit is what her mouth uttereth.
Joseph In Prison · 📍 [[the prison]] · for ten years
By way of punishment for having traduced his ten brethren before his father, Joseph had to languish for ten years in the prison to which the wiles of traducers had in turn condemned him.
Joseph In Prison
Joseph the keeper of the prison
He even appointed him to be the overseer of the prison
Joseph In Prison · 📍 [[his master's house]]
Joseph Potiphar the keeper of the prison
Joseph continued to minister to the needs of Potiphar, and he received permission from the keeper of the prison to spend some of his time in his master's house.
Joseph In Prison · 📍 [[the house of the captain of the guard]]
the chief butler the chief baker
they were put in ward in the house of the captain of the guard.
Joseph In Prison
Pharaoh (Joseph's) the chief butler the chief baker
On account of all these transgressions they were condemned to death by Pharaoh
Joseph In Prison · 📍 [[prison]] · ten years
the chief butler the chief baker
The chief butler and the chief baker had been confined in prison ten years
Joseph In Prison · on the third day after the birth of the child
Pharaoh (Joseph's) the chief butler
on that occasion the chief butler was restored in honor to his butlership
Joseph In Prison · on the third day after the birth of the child
Pharaoh (Joseph's) the chief baker
and the chief baker was hanged
Pharaoh'S Dreams · 📍 [[Nile]] · the morning
He therefore called for all the wise men of his land, and they endeavored in vain to find a satisfactory interpretation.
Pharaoh'S Dreams
He issued a decree summoning all interpreters of dreams to appear before him on pain of death, and he held out great rewards and distinctions to the one who should succeed in finding the true meaning of his dreams.
Pharaoh'S Dreams
The king was as little pleased with these interpretations as with the others, which he had heard before, and in his wrath he ordered the wise men, the magicians and the scribes of Egypt, to be killed
Pharaoh'S Dreams · 📍 [[the dungeon]]
Mirod Pharaoh (Joseph's) Joseph
Therefore, O king, stay the hand of the hangmen, let them not execute the Egyptians. The slave I speak of is still in the dungeon, and if the king will consent to summon him hither, he will surely interpret thy dreams.
Joseph Before Pharaoh · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Pharaoh revoked the edict of death that he had issued against the wise men of Egypt
Joseph Before Pharaoh
They were both a revelation concerning the seven good years impending and the seven years of famine to follow them.
Joseph Before Pharaoh · at this moment
Pharaoh (Joseph's) Pharaoh's wife Pharaoh's newborn son Pharaoh's older son Joseph
Thy wife, who is sitting upon the birthstool at this moment, will bring forth a son, and thou wilt rejoice over him, but in the midst of thy joy the sad tidings will be told thee of the death of thine older son
Joseph Before Pharaoh · Scarcely had Joseph withdrawn from the presence of the king
Pharaoh (Joseph's) Pharaoh's wife Pharaoh's newborn son
the report of the birth of a son was brought to Pharaoh
Joseph Before Pharaoh · soon after
Pharaoh (Joseph's) Pharaoh's older son
soon after also the report of the death of his first-born, who had suddenly dropped to the floor and passed away.
Joseph Before Pharaoh · During the night
[[Gabriel]] Joseph
During the night Gabriel appeared unto Joseph, and taught him all the seventy languages, and he acquired them quickly after the angel had changed his name from Joseph to Jehoseph.
Joseph Before Pharaoh · 📍 [[Egypt]] · The next morning
Thou shalt therefore be the second in the land after Pharaoh, and according unto thy word shall all my people go in and go out; my princes and my servants shall receive their monthly appanage from thee; before thee the people shall prostrate themselves, only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
The Ruler Of Egypt
Joseph was installed in his high position, and invested with the insignia of his office, with solemn ceremony.
The Ruler Of Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]] · the selfsame day
the king gave him fields and vineyards as a present, and also three thousand talents of silver, and a thousand talents of gold, and onyx stones and bdellium, and many other costly things.
The Ruler Of Egypt
Pharaoh called him Zaphenath-paneah, he who can reveal secret things with ease, and rejoiceth the heart of man therewith.
The Ruler Of Egypt · 📍 [[the land of Havilah]] · in the first year after his appointment as viceroy
with united forces they fought against the people of Tarshish, routed them utterly, settled their land with the Ishmaelites
The Ruler Of Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]] · that year and the six following years
that year and the six following years were years of plenty, as he had foretold. The harvest was so ample that a single ear produced two heaps of grain, and Joseph made circumspect arrangements to provide abundantly for the years of famine.
The Ruler Of Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when the grievous time of dearth came
when the grievous time of dearth came, and they went to their storehouses to bring forth the treasured grain, behold, it had rotted, and become unfit for food.
The Ruler Of Egypt
Pharaoh, only to be told by him, "Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do!"
The Ruler Of Egypt
I give no food to the uncircumcised. Go hence, and circumcise yourselves, and then return hither.
Joseph'S Brethren In Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]]
To make sure of their coming, he issued a decree concerning the purchase of corn in Egypt, as follows: "By order of the king and his deputy, and the princes of the realm, be it enacted that he who desireth to buy grain in Egypt may not send his slave hither to do his bidding, but he must charge his own sons therewith."
Joseph'S Brethren In Egypt · 📍 [[the gates of the city of Egypt]]
The guard on duty happened to be Manasseh, the son of Joseph.
Joseph'S Brethren In Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]] · On the evening of the day they entered Egypt
On the evening of the day they entered Egypt, Joseph discovered their names in the list, which he was in the habit of examining daily, and he commanded that all stations for the sale of corn be closed, except one only.
Joseph'S Brethren In Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]]
His brethren, with whose names Joseph furnished the overseer of the place, were to be seized and brought to him as soon as they put in appearance.
Joseph'S Brethren In Egypt · 📍 [[a place of ill-fame]] · For three days
they discovered the brethren of Joseph in a place of ill-fame and haled them before their master.
Joseph Meets His Brethren · 📍 [[Egypt]] · on the third day
Joseph Reuben Simon Levi Judah Benjamin Manasseh
God never allows the pious to languish in distress longer than three days, and so it was a Divine dispensation that the brethren of Joseph were released on the third day, and were permitted by Joseph to return home, on condition, however, that one of them remain behind as hostage.
The Second Journey To Egypt
When the supplies bought in Egypt were eaten up, and the family of Jacob began to suffer with hunger
Joseph And Benjamin · at the time when Joseph was released from prison
He had died at the time when Joseph was released from prison
Joseph And Benjamin · 📍 [[Egypt]] · The very moment they left the city
The very moment they left the city he had been released from prison, and thereafter he had been entertained with splendor in the house of the ruler of Egypt.
Judah Pleads And Threatens.
When Pharaoh learnt the reason of the mighty uproar, he sent word to Joseph that he would have to concede the demands of the Hebrews, else the land would suffer destruction.
Joseph Makes Himself Known
Especially did he weep upon Benjamin's neck, because he foresaw the destruction decreed for the two Temples to be situated in the allotment of Benjamin. And Benjamin also wept upon Joseph's neck, for the sanctuary at Shiloh, in the territory of Joseph which was likewise doomed to destruction.
Jacob Receives The Glad Tidings · 📍 [[Paradise]]
Serah did not die, she entered Paradise alive.
Jacob Receives The Glad Tidings · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Then Jacob and the members of his family put on the clothes Joseph had sent, among them a turban for Jacob, and they made all preparations to journey down into Egypt and dwell there with Joseph and his family.
Jacob Receives The Glad Tidings · 📍 [[Beer-sheba]] · Before Jacob left Canaan
Before Jacob left Canaan, he went to Beer-sheba, to hew down the cedars that Abraham had planted there, and take them with him to Egypt.
Jacob Arrives In Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Joseph had issued a proclamation throughout the land, threatening with death all that did not go forth to meet Jacob.
Jacob Arrives In Egypt
He died an untimely death, before the years of life assigned to him had elapsed.
Jacob Arrives In Egypt · when the cavalcade had advanced to the space between the one and the other city wall
but the number was raised to seventy by the birth of Jochebed, afterward the mother of Moses, which took place when the cavalcade had advanced to the space between the one and the other city wall.
Jacob Arrives In Egypt
Joseph Jacob Pharaoh (Joseph's)
Then Joseph set Jacob his father before Pharaoh
Jacob Arrives In Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]]
On going out from the presence of Pharaoh, Jacob blessed the king with the words, "May the years still in store for me be given unto thee, and may the Nile overflow its banks henceforth again and water the land." His words were fulfilled. In order to show that the pious are a blessing for the world, God caused the Nile to rise above its bed and fructify the land of Egypt.
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity · during the years of famine
so he provided for the whole world during the years of famine.
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity · 📍 [[Egypt]]
The people were soon left without means to purchase the corn they needed.
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity · 📍 [[Egypt]]
And so Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, and the inhabitants became his tenants
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity
The remainder of Joseph's possessions he gave away, partly to his brethren and their families, and partly to Pharaoh, who put them into his treasury.
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Joseph removed them from their own cities, and settled them in others.
Joseph'S Kindness And Generosity · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Joseph [[Gabriel]]
The angel Gabriel came and transferred the rent from the fore part to the back, and the Egyptians were convinced of Joseph's innocence
JACOB'S LAST WISH · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Jacob said to Joseph: "If I have found grace in thy sight, bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. Only for thy sake did I come down into Egypt, and for thy sake I spoke, Now I can die. Do this for me as a true service of love, and not because thou art afraid, or because decency demands it. And when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt bury me in their burying-place."
The Blessing Of Ephraim And Manasseh
The blessing bestowed upon his grandchildren by Jacob was as follows: "O that it be the will of God that ye walk in the ways of the Lord like unto my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may the angel that hath redeemed me from all evil give his aid unto Joshua and Gideon, and reveal himself unto them. May your names be named on Israel, and like unto fishes may you grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth, and as fishes are protected by the water, so may you be protected by the merits of Joseph."
The Blessing Of Ephraim And Manasseh · 📍 Shechem
Joseph received two gifts from his father. The first was Shechem, the city that Jacob had defended, with sword and bow, against the depredations of the Amorite kings when they tried to take revenge upon his sons for the outrage committed there. And the second gift was the garments made by God for Adam and passed from hand to hand, until they came into the possession of Jacob.
The Blessing Of Ephraim And Manasseh · 📍 Shechem
Shechem, son of Hamor Dinah Asenath Joseph
Shechem, son of Hamor, the master of the city, had given it to Dinah as a present, and the wife of Joseph, Asenath, being the daughter of Dinah, the city belonged to him by right.
The Blessing Of Ephraim And Manasseh · 📍 [[the way]]
I was unwilling to bury her in the way, but the Lord commanded it.
The Death Of Jacob
Jacob Shekinah
Not the Angel of Death ended his life, but the Shekinah took his soul with a kiss.
The Death Of Jacob · At first
At first Pharaoh refused the permission craved by Joseph, who, however, urged him to consider the solemn oath he had given his dying father, to bury him in Canaan. Pharaoh desired him to seek absolution from the oath. But Joseph rejoined, "Then will I apply also for absolution from the oath I gave thee,"
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[the desert of Paran]]
At last, however, in the battle that took place in the desert of Paran, the sons of Esau gained a decisive victory. They massacred all the warriors of the sons of Seir, and the Midianites and the children of the East were put to flight.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[Seir]] · Thereafter
Thereafter the sons of Esau returned to Seir, and they slew all the inhabitants of the place, men, women, and children, sparing only fifty lads and maidens.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau
Their choice fell upon Bela, the son of Beor, one of the warriors sent to them by King Agnias. His peer could not be found among the allied troops for bravery, wisdom, and handsome appearance. They set the royal crown upon his head, built a palace for him, and gave him gifts of silver, gold, and gems, until he lived in great opulence.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[Raamses]] · after thirty years
He reigned happily for thirty years, and met his death then in a war against Joseph and his brethren.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[Egypt]] · When he returned from the battle
When he returned from the battle, Joseph ordered manacles and fetters to be put upon Zepho and his followers, and their captivity was made more bitter unto them than it had been before.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[the city of Pozimana]] · about this time
It had happened about this time that a man of the land of Kittim, 'Uzi by name, whom his countrymen venerated as a god, died in the city of Pozimana, and he left behind a fair and clever daughter.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[Kittim]]
Agnias heard of Yaniah's beauty and wisdom, and he sued for her hand, and his request was granted him by the people of Kittim.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[the Valley of Campania]] · in the second engagement
Turnus Agnias
But in the second engagement the army of Turnus was routed completely, and he himself was left dead on the field.
The Sons Of Jacob At War With The Sons Of Esau · 📍 [[Africa]] · Thenceforth
Agnias meantime went to Pozimana, to solemnize his marriage with Yaniah, and he returned with her to his capital in Africa.
Zepho King Of Kittim
Balaam took wax and moulded the figures of men, to represent the army of Agnias and the army of the Egyptians, and he plunged them into magic water and let them swim, and it appeared that the African army was subdued by the Egyptians. Agnias accordingly gave up the campaign
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[Kittim]]
Zepho, seeing that his sovereign could not be persuaded into war with the sons of Jacob, fled the country and betook himself to Kittim.
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[the mountains of Koptiziah]] · once
He shivered the stone in pieces, and entering the cave he saw an animal formed like a man above and a he-goat below, and he killed the strange beast, which was in the very act of devouring his lost ox.
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[Kittim]]
There was great rejoicing among the people of Kittim, for the monster had long been doing havoc among their cattle, and in gratitude they set aside one day of the year, which they called by Zepho's name, in honor of their liberator
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[Kittim]] · Meantime
Meantime Zepho had won a decisive victory over the African troops that had made an incursion into the land of Kittim, and the people chose him as king.
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[the Islands of the Sea]] · His first undertaking
His first undertaking was a campaign against the sons of Tubal and the Islands of the Sea, and again he was successful, he subdued them completely.
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[Kittim]] · During the first thirteen years of his reign
During the first thirteen years of his reign, the Africans made no attempt to disturb the peace of Kittim, but then they invaded the land, only to be severely repulsed by Zepho, who pursued the troops up to the very borders of Africa
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[Africa]] · forthwith
Agnias forthwith dispatched a decree to his country, ordering, on penalty of death and confiscation of property, that all the males of the land, including boys that bad passed their tenth year, were to join the army and fight against the people of Kittim.
Zepho King Of Kittim · 📍 [[the Valley of Pathros]] · as soon as they summoned the Israelites to aid them
The Israelites prayed to God to support them with His help, and the Lord heard their prayer. Then they threw themselves upon Zepho and his allies, and after they had cut down several thousand men, such dismay and confusion took hold of the enemy that they fled hastily, pursued by the Israelites as far as the boundary of the country.
The Nations At War · 📍 [[Egypt]] · after the death of Zepho
Balaam Pharaoh of this section
Balaam had made his escape to Egypt after the death of Zepho, and he was received there with great demonstrations of honor by the king and all the nobles, and Pharaoh appointed him to be royal counsellor, for he had heard much about his exceeding great wisdom.
The Nations At War · 📍 [[Africa]]
Asdrubal, son of Agnias Latinus
He sailed to Africa in ships, and inflicted one defeat after another upon Asdrubal, and finally this king of Africa lost his life upon the battlefield.
The Nations At War
After destroying the canal from Kittim to Africa built many years before by Agnias, Latinus returned to his own country, taking with him as his wife Ushpiziwnah, the daughter of Asdrubal, who was so wondrously beautiful that her countrymen wore her likeness upon their garments.
The Nations At War · 📍 [[Kittim]] · eighteen years
Anibal, the younger brother of Asdrubal and his successor in the royal power, went to Kittim in ships and carried on a series of wars lasting eighteen years, in the course of which he killed off eighty thousand of the people of Kittim, not sparing the princes and the nobles.
The Nations At War · 📍 [[Seir]]
Hadad (successor of Baal Hamon) Abimenos
The sons of Seir were defeated abjectly, their king Hadad was taken captive, and then executed by Abimenos, and Seir was made a province subject to Kittim and ruled by a governor.
Joseph'S Magnanimity · when Pharaoh departed this life
when Pharaoh departed this life, Joseph being then a man of seventy-one years of age, the king's last wish was that he might be a father unto his son and successor Magron, and administer the affairs of state for him.
Joseph'S Magnanimity · at his death
He died ten years before his allotted time, because, without taking umbrage, he had permitted his brethren to call his father his "servant" in his presence.
Asenath · when she was eighteen years of age
Pharaoh (Joseph's) Pharaoh's first-born son Asenath
Even Pharaoh's appointed successor, his first-born son, demanded her in marriage, but his father refused to comply with his wish
Asenath · when she was eighteen years of age
But Asenath rejected every proposal of marriage, and avoided all intercourse with men.
The Marriage Of Joseph · seven days and seven nights
In this manner she spent seven days and seven nights in her chamber.
The Marriage Of Joseph · The morning of the eighth day
Asenath angel
The angel explained to her that it had been produced by the bees of Paradise, to serve as food for the angels and the elect of God. He took a small portion of it for himself, and the rest he put into Asenath's mouth, saying: "From this day forth thy body shall bloom like the eternal flowers in Paradise, thy bones shall wax fat like the cedars thereof, strength inexhaustible shall be thine, thy youth shall never fade, and thy beauty never perish, and thou shalt be like unto a metropolis surrounded by a wall."
The Marriage Of Joseph
Asenath angel
Now she knew that she had not been entertaining a human being, but an angel.
The Marriage Of Joseph · later
Asenath Joseph Potiphar Zuleika
The wedding took place later in the presence of Pharaoh, who set a golden crown upon the head of the bridegroom and the bride, gave them his blessing, and made a seven days' feast in their honor, to which he invited the magnates and princes of Egypt and of other countries.
Kind And Unkind Brethren · 📍 [[Egypt]] · On the twenty-first day of the second month in the second of the seven years of famine
On the twenty-first day of the second month in the second of the seven years of famine, Jacob came down to Egypt
Kind And Unkind Brethren
Pharaoh's first-born son Simon Levi
Turning to the son of Pharaoh, he told him that nothing would induce them to execute the wickedness he had proposed
Kind And Unkind Brethren
Pharaoh's first-born son Dan Gad Asher Naphtali
Their wrath excited against Joseph by these words, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah assented to the proposition of the son of Pharaoh.
Kind And Unkind Brethren
Pharaoh's first-born son Pharaoh (Joseph's)
The palace guard would not allow even the successor to the throne to enter his father's bedchamber, and he had to depart without having effected his object.
Treachery Punished
Pharaoh's first-born son Asenath
From their ambush the forces of the son of Pharaoh fell upon Asenath and her six hundred attendants. They succeeded in hewing down the vanguard, and Asenath had to take to flight.
Treachery Punished
Levi Pharaoh's first-born son Pharaoh (Joseph's)
It was also Levi that restrained Benjamin from giving the death blow to the heavily wounded son of Pharaoh. So far from permitting harm to be done to him, he washed his wounds, put him into a chariot, and took him to Pharaoh, who thanked Levi from his heart for his services of loving- kindness.
Treachery Punished · three days later
Levi's efforts were vain, three days later the son of Pharaoh died of the wounds inflicted by Benjamin
Treachery Punished · soon after
and from grief over the loss of his first-born Pharaoh followed him soon after, departing this life at the age of one hundred and seventy-seven years.
Treachery Punished · 📍 [[Egypt]]
His crown he left to Joseph, who ruled over Egypt for forty-eight years thereafter.
Treachery Punished · at the time of his grandfather's death
Joseph Pharaoh's infant grandchild
He in turn handed the crown on to the grandchild of Pharaoh, an infant in arms at the time of his grandfather's death, toward whom Joseph had acted in a father's stead all his life.
The Death And Burial Of Joseph · On his death-bed
On his death-bed Joseph took an oath of his brethren, and he bade them on their death-bed likewise take an oath of their sons, to carry his bones to Palestine, when God should visit them and bring them up out of the land of Egypt.
The Death And Burial Of Joseph
These words ended, he stretched out his feet, and slept his last eternal sleep, and the whole of Israel mourned him, and the whole of Egypt was in great grief
The Death And Burial Of Joseph · During the forty years of wandering through the desert
During the forty years of wandering through the desert, the coffin was in the midst of Israel
Significant Names · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Benjamin Benjamin's five ungodly sons (unnamed)
five of them perished in Egypt on account of their ungodly ways
Significant Names
Muppira was called Shephupham, because they "afflicted" themselves in their penance
Significant Names
Huppim was turned into Hupham, to indicate that they had "cleansed" themselves from sin.
Reuben'S Testament · Two years after the death of Joseph
Two years after the death of Joseph, Reuben fell sick. Feeling that his end was nigh, he called together his sons, his grandsons, and his brethren, to give them his last admonitions from out of the fulness of his experience.
Reuben'S Testament · 📍 [[Egypt]] · at the age of one hundred and twenty-five years
Reuben departed this life at the age of one hundred and twenty-five years. His body was laid in a coffin
Reuben'S Testament · 📍 [[the Double Cave]]
his sons bore it away from Egypt, and carried it up to Hebron, where they buried it in the Double Cave.
Simon'S Admonition Against Envy · in the days of my youth
And in the days of my youth I was jealous of Joseph, for our father loved him more than all the rest of us, and I resolved to kill him. For the prince of temptation sent the spirit of jealousy to take possession of me, and it blinded me so that I did not consider Joseph to be my brother, and I spared not even my father Jacob. But his God and the God of his fathers sent His angel and saved him out of my hands.
Simon'S Admonition Against Envy
Having completed his admonitions to his sons, Simon passed away and was gathered to his fathers, at the age of one hundred and twenty years.
Simon'S Admonition Against Envy · 📍 [[Hebron]] · during the war between the Egyptians and the Canaanites
His sons placed him in a coffin made of imperishable wood, so that they might carry his bones to Hebron, as they did, in secret, during the war between the Egyptians and the Canaanites.
The Ascension Of Levi
When it was disclosed to Levi that he was about to die, he gathered all his children around him, to tell them the story of his life, and he also prophesied unto them what they would do, and what would happen to them until the judgment day.
The Ascension Of Levi · At the age of twenty-eight years
Levi Milcah Gershom (son of Levi)
At the age of twenty-eight years I took Milcah to wife, and she bore me a son, and I named him Gershom
The Ascension Of Levi · at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years
He stretched out his feet, and was gathered unto his fathers, at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven years
Judah Warns Against Greed And Unchastity · unto old age
I did penance for all this, and unto old age I drank no wine, and ate no flesh, and knew no sort of pleasure.
Judah Warns Against Greed And Unchastity · this day
I die this day at the age of one hundred and nineteen years before your eyes.
Issachar'S Singleness Of Heart · one hundred and twenty-two years old
And Issachar bade his children carry him up to Hebron, and bury him there by his fathers in the Cave, and he stretched out his feet, and fell into the sleep of eternity
Zebulon Exhorts Unto Compassion · 📍 [[Canaan]]
I was the first to build a boat for rowing upon the sea
Zebulon Exhorts Unto Compassion · 📍 [[Canaan]]
Out of pity I would share my haul with the poor stranger
Zebulon Exhorts Unto Compassion · 📍 [[Canaan]] · for five years
For five years I fished in the summer, and in the winter I pastured the flocks with my brethren.
Zebulon Exhorts Unto Compassion
Having made an end of saying these words, he sank into the sleep of death
Zebulon Exhorts Unto Compassion · 📍 [[Hebron]] · later
wherein they carried him up to Hebron later, to bury him there next to his fathers.
Naphtali'S Dreams Of The Division Of The Tribes · In the hundred and thirty-second year of his life
Then he ate and drank with rejoicing, covered his face, and died,
Naphtali'S Dreams Of The Division Of The Tribes · 📍 [[Hebron]]
he enjoined them to carry his remains to Hebron, to be buried there near his fathers.
Gad'S Hatred · 📍 [[Hebron]] · After five years
After five years, his sons carried his remains to Hebron unto his fathers.
Asher'S Last Words · In the hundred and twenty-fifth year of his life
And he sank into sweet sleep, and died.
Asher'S Last Words · 📍 [[Hebron]]
His sons did as he had commanded, and they carried him up and buried him with his fathers.
Benjamin Extols Joseph · Know now, my children, that I am about to die
Know now, my children, that I am about to die.
Benjamin Extols Joseph · in the ninety-first year of their sojourning in Egypt
in the ninety-first year of their sojourning in Egypt, his sons and the sons of his brethren brought up the bones of their father, in secret, and buried them in Hebron, at the feet of their fathers.
Satan And Job · In the following night
This one to whom the people offer sacrifices is not God, he is the handiwork of the tempter, wherewith he deceives men.
Satan And Job
Now Job arose, and accompanied by fifty men he repaired to the idol, and destroyed it.
Job'S Suffering
She fell upon his oxen and his asses, and took possession of them, after slaying the men to whose care Job had entrusted them.
Job'S Suffering
The sheep, which had been left unmolested by the queen of Sheba, were taken away by the Chaldeans.
Job'S Suffering
and when her master learnt that she shared her bread with Job, he dismissed her.
The Four Friends
And she returned to the house of her master, whence she had absented herself for some time against his will.
The Four Friends · In the evening
In the evening she lay down to sleep next to the manger for the cattle, but she never rose again, she died there of exhaustion.
The Beginning Of The Egyptian Bondage · As soon as Jacob was dead
As soon as Jacob was dead, the eyes of the Israelites were closed, as well as their hearts. They began to feel the dominion of the stranger
The Beginning Of The Egyptian Bondage · immediately after the death of Joseph
A change in the relation of the Egyptians toward the Israelites had, indeed, been noticeable immediately after the death of Joseph
The Beginning Of The Egyptian Bondage · when Levi, the last of them, had departed this life
It was only when Levi, the last of them, had departed this life that their suffering commenced.
The Beginning Of The Egyptian Bondage · immediately after the death of Levi
The first hostile act on the part of the Egyptians was to deprive the Israelites of their fields, their vineyards, and the gifts that Joseph had sent to his brethren.
The Beginning Of The Egyptian Bondage · Not long after the death of Levi
Not long after the death of Levi occurred that of the Egyptian king Magron
Pharaoh'S Cunning · 📍 [[Pithom and Raamses]]
Malol the elders and counsellors of Egypt the children of Israel
After a time all the Egyptians had withdrawn, and they had turned to become the officers and taskmasters of the Israelites. Then they refrained from giving them any pay
Pharaoh'S Cunning · later
the tribe of Levi the Egyptians
The Egyptians did not molest them later, since they had not been with their brethren at the beginning
Pharaoh'S Cunning
Malol the children of Israel
Pharaoh therefore issued an order, that they were not to be permitted to sleep at their own homes, that so they might be deprived of the opportunity of having intercourse with their wives.
Pharaoh'S Cunning
God the children of Israel
And it came to pass that the more the Egyptians afflicted them, the more they multiplied, and the more they spread abroad.
Pharaoh'S Cunning
Malol the children of Israel
those who did not complete the required tale of bricks were to be immured in the buildings between the layers of bricks, and great was the number of the Israelites that lost their lives in this way.
The Pious Midwives
Miriam exclaimed: "Woe be to this man when God visits retribution upon him for his evil deeds." The king would have killed her for these audacious words, had not Jochebed allayed his wrath by saying: "Why dost thou pay heed to her words? She is but a child, and knows not what she speaks."
The Pious Midwives
He approached them with amorous proposals, which they both repelled, and then he threatened them with death by fire. But they said within themselves: "Our father Abraham opened an inn, that he might feed the wayfarers, though they were heathen, and we should neglect the children, nay, kill them? No, we shall have a care to keep them alive." Thus they failed to execute what Pharaoh had commanded. Instead of murdering the babes, they supplied all their needs.
The Slaughter Of The Innocents
and then He ordered the earth to receive the babes, that they be sheltered therein until the time of their growing up
The Parents Of Moses · When Pharaoh's proclamation was issued
He set the example. He divorced his wife, and all the men of Israel did likewise
The Parents Of Moses · at the time of her birth
The first child of the union between Amram and Jochebed, his wife, who was one hundred and twenty-six years old at the time of her marriage, was a girl, and the mother called her Miriam, "Bitterness," for it was at the time of her birth that the Egyptians began to envenom the life of the Hebrews.
The Parents Of Moses · during the months before Aaron's birth
The second child was a boy, called Aaron, which means, "Woe unto this pregnancy!" because Pharaoh's instructions to the midwives, to kill the male children of the Hebrews, was proclaimed during the months before Aaron's birth.
Moses Rescued From The Water · The day Moses was set adrift in the little ark
Thereupon Pharaoh cried a halt to the drowning of the boys of his empire.
The Infancy Of Moses · when he was barely four months old
His kindred and all Israel knew that the child was destined for great things, for he was barely four months old when he began to prophesy, saying, "In days to come I shall receive the Torah from the flaming torch."
The Infancy Of Moses · at the end of two years
When Jochebed took the child to the palace at the end of two years, Pharaoh's daughter called him Moses, because she had "drawn" him out of the water, and because he would "draw" the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in a day to come.
The Infancy Of Moses
He said to the princess: "Moses was not thy child, yet thou didst treat him as such. For this I will call thee My daughter, though thou art not My daughter," and therefore the princess, the daughter of Pharaoh, bears the name Bithiah, "the daughter of God."
The Infancy Of Moses
The daughter of Pharaoh, perceiving Moses to be an extraordinary lad, adopted him as her son, for she had no child of her own. She informed her father of her intention concerning him, in these words: "I have brought up a child, who is divine in form and of an excellent mind, and as I received him through the bounty of the river in a wonderful way, I have thought it proper to adopt him as my son and as the heir of thy kingdom."
Moses Rescued By Gabriel
Moses the angel Gabriel
but the angel Gabriel guided his hand away from it and placed it upon the live coal, and the coal burnt the child's hand, and he lifted it up and touched it to his mouth, and burnt part of his lips and part of his tongue, and for all his life he became slow of speech and of a slow tongue.
Moses Rescued By Gabriel · After the wonderful exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
But I mastered my evil impulses with my strong will, and the character I acquired through severe discipline has become the opposite of the disposition with which I was born.
The Youth Of Moses · 📍 [[Goshen]] · One day
He dismissed all thought of his high station at court, shouldered a share of the burdens put upon the Israelites, and toiled in their place.
The Youth Of Moses · 📍 [[Egypt and Goshen]] · One day
Pharaoh fulfilled the petition preferred by Moses, and the king's edict was published in the whole of Egypt and in Goshen, as follows: "To the sons of Israel! Thus saith the king: Do your work and perform your service for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; on it ye shall do no labor."
The Youth Of Moses · One day
the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67) Shelomith Dathan the blasphemer of the Name (Section 67)
The husband scarcely out of sight, he executed the villainy he had planned, and dishonored the woman, and the fruit of this illicit relation was the blasphemer of the Name whom Moses ordered to execution on the march through the desert.
The Youth Of Moses · At the moment when the Egyptian slipped out of Shelomith's chamber
the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67) Dathan
Vexed that his crime had come to the knowledge of the injured husband, the taskmaster goaded him on to work with excessive vigor, and dealt him blow after blow with the intention to kill him.
The Youth Of Moses
Moses the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67)
He merely pronounced the Name of God, and the Egyptian was a corpse.
The Youth Of Moses · The day after the thing with the Egyptians happened
The day after the thing with the Egyptians happened, the two brothers began of malice aforethought to scuffle with each other, only in order to draw Moses into the quarrel and create an occasion for his betrayal.
The Youth Of Moses
God sent down the angel Michael, in the guise of a hangman, and the human hangman charged by Pharaoh with the execution was changed into the form of Moses. This spurious Moses the angel killed with the very sword with which the executioner had purposed to slay the intended victim. Meantime Moses took to flight.
The Flight · On approaching the city gates
A skirmish ensued, in which Kikanos lost one hundred and thirty men.
The Flight · On the morrow
This day he lost his thirty riders, who, mounted on their steeds, had attempted to swim the stream. Then the king ordered rafts to be constructed for the transporting of his men. When the vessels reached the canals, they were submerged, and the waters, swirling round and round as though driven by mill wheels, swept away two hundred men, twenty from each raft.
The Flight · On the third day
On the third day they set about assaulting the city from the side on which the snakes and scorpions swarmed, but they failed to reach it, and the reptiles killed one hundred and seventy men.
The Flight · for the space of nine years
The king desisted from attacking the city, but for the space of nine years he surrounded it, so that none could come out or go in.
The Flight · At the end of the nine years
At the end of the nine years Kikanos fell a prey to a mortal disease, and he died on the seventh day of his illness.
The King Of Ethiopia · 📍 [[Ethiopia]] · on that day
And they made Moses king over them on that day.
The King Of Ethiopia · On the seventh day of his reign
On the seventh day of his reign, all the people assembled and came before him, to ask his counsel as to what was to be done to the city they were besieging.
The King Of Ethiopia
After the serpents were removed in this way, the men fought against the city, subdued it, and killed all its inhabitants, but of the people besieging it there died not one.
The King Of Ethiopia · 📍 [[Egypt]]
When Balaam saw that the city had fallen into the hands of the besiegers, he exercised his magic arts, which enabled him to fly through the air, and he carried with him his two sons, Jannes and Jambres, and his eight brothers, and they all took refuge in Egypt.
The King Of Ethiopia
Moses went forth with a mighty army to fight against the rebellious nations, and he subdued them, first the children of the East and then Aram.
The King Of Ethiopia · 📍 [[Ethiopia]] · The following morning
The following morning they rose up and made Monarchos, the son of Kikanos, king over them, but they were afraid to stretch forth their hand against Moses, for the Lord was with him. They also remembered the oath they had sworn unto Moses, and therefore they did him no harm. Moreover, they gave many presents to him, and dismissed him with great honor.
Jethro · 📍 [[Egypt]]
on account of whom I had to flee from Egypt. Had it not been for him, I should not be here now.
Moses Marries Zipporah
Thereupon Jethro gave much money to Moses, and he bestowed his daughter Zipporah upon him as wife, giving her to him under the condition that the children born of the marriage in Jethro's house should be divided into two equal classes, the one to be Israelitish, the other Egyptian.
Moses Marries Zipporah · When Zipporah bore him a son
Moses Zipporah Gershom (son of Moses)
When Zipporah bore him a son, Moses circumcised him, and called him Gershom, as a memorial of the wonder God had done for him,
Moses Marries Zipporah · in the third year
Moses Zipporah Moses and Zipporah's unnamed second son (Section 071)
Zipporah nursed her first child for two years, and in the third year she bore a second son.
Moses Marries Zipporah · On the journey thither
Moses Zipporah Moses and Zipporah's unnamed second son (Section 071)
Remembering his compact with Jethro, Moses realized that his father-in-law would not permit him to circumcise this one, too, and he determined to return to Egypt, that he might have the opportunity of bringing up his second son as an Israelite.
Moses Marries Zipporah · On the journey thither
Moses Zipporah Satan Moses and Zipporah's unnamed second son (Section 071)
On the journey thither, Satan appeared to him in the guise of a serpent, and swallowed Moses down to his extremities. Zipporah knew by this token that the thing had happened because her second son had not been circumcised, and she hastened to make good the omission.
Moses Marries Zipporah · 📍 [[Egypt]] · When Moses arrived in Egypt
Moses Dathan and Abiram
This drove Moses straightway back to Midian, and there he remained two years more,
Moses Marries Zipporah · 📍 [[Horeb]] · until God revealed Himself at Horeb
until God revealed Himself at Horeb, and said to him, "Go and bring forth My children out of the land of Egypt.
A Bloody Remedy · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God afflicted him with a plague of leprosy, which covered his whole body, from the crown of his bead to the soles of his feet.
A Bloody Remedy · for ten years
His disease afflicted him for ten years, and every day an Israelitish child was killed for him. It was all in vain; indeed, at the end of the time his leprosy changed into boils, and he suffered more than before.
A Bloody Remedy · 📍 [[Goshen]]
The king's flesh was torn from him, for this thing was from the Lord,
A Bloody Remedy
The king resolved that Adikam should reign in his stead after his death.
A Bloody Remedy · 📍 [[Zoan]] · At the end of three years
At the end of three years the old king died in shame and disgrace, a loathing to all that saw him, and they buried him in the sepulchre of the kings of Egypt in Zoan, but they did not embalm him, as was usual with kings,
A Bloody Remedy · 📍 [[Goshen]] · from this day forward
He went to Goshen with his servants, and increased their labor, and he said unto them, "Complete your work, each day's task, and let not your hands slacken from the work from this day forward, as you did in the day of my father."
A Bloody Remedy
The taskmasters forced each man of the Israelites to put his own child in the building. The father would place his son in the wall, and cover him over with mortar, all the while weeping, his tears running down upon his child.
The Burning Thorn-Bush · 📍 [[Mount Horeb]]
Mount Horeb Moses
At his approach the mountain began to move, as though to go forward and meet him, and it settled back into quietude only when his foot rested upon it.
The Burning Thorn-Bush · 📍 [[Mount Horeb]]
[[Michael]]
The fire that Moses saw in the bush was the appearance of the angel Michael, who had descended as the forerunner of the Shekinah herself to come down presently.
Moses Visits Paradise And Hell · 📍 [[hell]]
Then said God to the Angel of Hell, "Go and show hell unto Moses, and how the wicked are treated there." Immediately he went with Moses, walking before him like a pupil before his master, and thus they entered hell together, and Moses saw men undergoing torture by the Angels of Destruction
Moses Visits Paradise And Hell · 📍 [[Paradise]]
At the command of God, Gabriel now led Moses to Paradise. As he entered, two angels came toward him
The Return To Egypt · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Moses Zipporah Gershom (son of Moses)
At last Moses sallied forth upon his journey to Egypt, accompanied by his wife and his children.
The Return To Egypt · while he was on the road to Egypt
Moses Zipporah Gershom (son of Moses) Hemah
The angels Af and Hemah appeared and swallowed his whole body down to his feet, and they gave him up only after Zipporah, nimble as a "bird," circumcised her son Gershom, and touched the feet of her husband with the blood of the circumcision.
The Return To Egypt
Moses Zipporah Gershom (son of Moses) Jethro
Moses recognized that Aaron was right, and he sent his wife and his sons back to his father-in-law Jethro.
The Return To Egypt · 📍 [[the holy mountain]]
Their punishment was that God did not permit them to ascend the holy mountain with Moses.
Moses And Aaron Before Pharaoh · 📍 [[Pharaoh's palace]]
They were dismissed, and others put in their places.
Moses And Aaron Before Pharaoh · 📍 [[Pharaoh's palace]]
Pharaoh's unnamed wife (Chapter 080)
indeed, Pharaoh's own wife performed it.
The Suffering Increases · 📍 [[Egypt]] · This frightful time of Israel's extreme suffering
All this was a part of God's plan, the oppression of Israel was to be increased the closer the end approached.
The Suffering Increases
God made answer thereto: "Yes, Moses, thou art worthy thereof. Through thee My children will be brought forth out of Egypt.
The Suffering Increases · henceforth
At first God had revealed Himself only to Moses, and the original intention had been that he alone was to perform all the miracles, but henceforth the word of God was addressed to Aaron as well, and he was given a share in doing the wonders.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
First He cut off their water supply by turning their rivers into blood.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
They refused to let the Israelites go, and He sent the noisy, croaking frogs into their entrails.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
They refused to let the Israelites go, and He brought lice against them, which pierced their flesh like darts.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
They refused to let the Israelites go, and He sent barbarian legions against them, mixed hordes of wild beasts.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
Then God brought a grievous murrain upon their cattle, because they had pressed the Israelites into their service as shepherds, and assigned remote pasturing places to them, to keep them away from their wives.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
The sixth plague was a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
Because they had sent the Israelites forth into the fields, to plough and sow, hail was sent down upon them, and their trees and crops were destroyed.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
Therefore God brought the locusts into the Egyptian border, to eat the residue of that which was escaped, which remained unto them from the hail, for the teeth of the locust are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the jaw teeth of a great lion.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God wicked Israelites
But that the Egyptians might not say they had succumbed to the plague like themselves, God slew them under cover of the darkness, and in the darkness they were buried by their fellow-Israelites, and the Egyptians knew nothing of what had happened.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
Because they would throw the Israelites into dungeons, God brought darkness upon them, the darkness of hell, so that they had to grope their way.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Egypt]]
God Egyptians
They refused to let the Israelites go, and He slew their magnates, their first-born sons.
Measure For Measure · 📍 [[Red Sea]]
The tenth plague was the slaying of the first-born, and it came upon the Egyptians because of their intention to murder the men children of the Israelites at their birth, and, finally, Pharaoh and his host were drowned in the Red Sea, because the Egyptians had caused the men children of the Israelites to be exposed in the water.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron · one morning
As Pharaoh would not lay the warning to heart, the plague announced by Moses was let loose upon him and his people—the waters were turned into blood.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron · 📍 [[Egypt]]
the first frog (Section 83) God
He stretched forth his hand with his rod over the rivers, and caused frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron · at the moment appointed as the last of the plague
God the first frog (Section 83)
While the others were destroyed from Pharaoh and the Egyptian houses at the moment appointed as the last of the plague, God saved those in the bake-ovens alive, the fire had no power to do them the least harm.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron · 📍 [[Egypt]] · on the following day
God the first frog (Section 83)
The prayer offered by Moses in behalf of Pharaoh was granted, all the frogs perished, and their destruction was too swift for them to retire to the water.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron · No sooner had the frogs departed from him, his houses, his servants, and his people
No sooner had the frogs departed from him, his houses, his servants, and his people, than he hardened his heart again, and refused to let Israel go. Thereupon God sent the plague of the lice, the last of those brought upon Egypt through the mediation of Aaron.
The Plagues Brought Through Aaron
Go to him, therefore, and warn him, it would be well for him to let My people go, that the plague come not upon him.
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · Again
Again Pharaoh expressed his willingness to let the children of Israel sacrifice unto their God, but they were to stay in the land and do it, not go outside, into the wilderness. Moses pointed out to Pharaoh how unbecoming it would be for the Israelites to sacrifice, before the very eyes of his people, the animals that the Egyptians worshipped as gods. Then Pharaoh consented to let them go beyond the borders of his land
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · 📍 [[Egypt]] · The fifth plague
The fifth plague inflicted by God upon the Egyptians was a grievous pestilence, which mowed down the cattle and beasts chiefly, yet it did not spare men altogether.
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · No sooner had the hail stopped
No sooner had the hail stopped than Pharaoh abandoned his resolve, and refused to let Israel go.
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · 📍 [[the Red Sea]] · Now
Now the Lord turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea.
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · 📍 [[Egypt]] · The last plague but one
The last plague but one, like those which had preceded it, endured seven days. All the time the land was enveloped in darkness
The Plagues Brought Through Moses · until Moses had compassion on them again
Thus they remained, overwhelmed by the affliction, until Moses had compassion on them again, and besought God in their behalf, who granted him the power of restoring fine weather, light instead of darkness and day instead of night.
The Plagues Brought Through Moses
With a loud voice Moses proclaimed the last plague, closing his announcement with the words: “And all these thy servants shall come down unto me and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out: and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out.”
The First Passover
Moses Israel
Moses appeared before the children of Israel and delivered the Divine message to them, telling them that their redemption would come about in this month of Nisan
The First Passover · 📍 [[Egypt]] · four days before the day appointed for the offering
Israel
they were bidden to select their sacrificial animal four days before the day appointed for the offering, and to designate it publicly as such, to show that they did not stand in awe of the Egyptians.
The First Passover · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when the time came for the offering to be made
Israel
when the time came for the offering to be made, the children of Israel could perform the ceremonies without a tremor
The First Passover
Israel
They took of the blood of the animal, and openly put it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the doors of their houses.
The First Passover
Moses elders
Moses communicated the laws regulating the Passover sacrifice to the elders, and they in turn made them known to the people at large.
The First Passover
God elders Israel
They shall have the honor of delivering Israel. They shall lead the people to the Passover sacrifice, and through this the redemption will be brought about.
The First Passover · 📍 [[Egypt]] · When the Lord passed through the land of Egypt
God Israel
When the Lord passed through the land of Egypt, He blessed every Israelite for his fulfilment of the two commands, the command of the paschal sacrifice and the command regarding circumcision.
The First Passover · 📍 [[Holy Land]] · after they had eaten of the sacrifice
Israel
all the children of Israel were transported thither on clouds, and after they had eaten of the sacrifice, they were carried back to Egypt in the same way.
The Smiting Of The First-Born
the Egyptian first-born
So far from granting their wish, he ordered his servants to fall upon the first-born and beat them, to punish them for their presumptuous demand.
The Smiting Of The First-Born · 📍 [[Egypt]] · At the exact instant marking the middle of the night
God the Angels of Destruction
These angels were about to precipitate themselves into the work of annihilation, but God restrained them, saying, "My wrath will not be appeased until I Myself execute vengeance upon the enemies of Israel."
The Smiting Of The First-Born · 📍 [[Egypt]] · At the exact instant marking the middle of the night
God the Egyptian first-born the first-born daughters the oldest member of every household
Finally, God decreed that death should smite the oldest member of every household, whether or not he was the first-born of his parents.
The Smiting Of The First-Born · in the morning
the Egyptian fugitives the Israelites
But in the morning, when the Israelites arose from their sleep, they found the corpses of the Egyptian fugitives next to them.
The Smiting Of The First-Born · 📍 [[Egypt]] · That night
the first-born dead the Egyptian monuments and statues
The very monuments and statues erected to the memory of the first-born dead were changed into dust, which was scattered and flew out of sight.
The Smiting Of The First-Born · 📍 [[Egypt]] · that night
God the Egyptian idols
For the same reason all the idols of the Egyptians were swept out of existence in that night.
The Smiting Of The First-Born · 📍 [[Egypt]] · that night
God the first-born of the cattle
Likewise the Lord God slew the first-born of the cattle, for the Egyptians paid worship to animals, and they would have attributed their misfortunes to them.
The Redemption Of Israel From Egyptian Bondage · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the night of the smiting of the first- born
And God caused Pharaoh's voice to be heard throughout the land of Egypt, so that all the inhabitants, the home-born and the aliens, knew that Pharaoh had released the children of Israel from the bondage in which they had languished.
The Exodus · On the day of the exodus
Rachel daughter of Shuthelah Rachel's unnamed child (Chapter 088)
On the day of the exodus, Rachel the daughter of Shuthelah gave birth to a child, while she and her husband together were treading the clay for bricks. The babe dropped from her womb into the clay and sank out of sight.
The Exodus
Rachel's unnamed child (Chapter 088) [[Gabriel]]
Gabriel appeared, moulded a brick out of the clay containing the child, and carried it to the highest of the heavens, where he made it a footstool before the Divine throne.
The Exodus · 📍 [[Egypt]] · In that night
In the third night He appeared in Egypt, slaying the first-born of the Egyptians with His right hand, and protecting the first-born of the Israelites with His left.