the Egyptian taskmaster who assaulted Shelomith (Section 67)

Family: Egyptians · Role: taskmaster · First appears: The Youth Of Moses

Life events

The Egyptian taskmaster assaulted Shelomith, and their illicit relation produced the blasphemer of the Name.(The Youth Of Moses)
- With: 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 Egyptian taskmaster beat Dathan repeatedly, intending to kill him.(The Youth Of Moses)
- With: 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.”
Moses killed the Egyptian taskmaster by pronouncing God's Name.(The Youth Of Moses)
- With: Moses
- “He merely pronounced the Name of God, and the Egyptian was a corpse.”

child: the blasphemer of the Name (Section 67) (The child is described as the fruit of the taskmaster's illicit relation with Shelomith.) “and the fruit of this illicit relation was the blasphemer of the Name whom Moses ordered to execution on the march through the desert.”

Extracted from the original text of The Legends of the Jews, Volume II. Made with Rho MD.