The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 225
4 7 : B I R T H
This
interesting
statement
apparently
implies that
some of
the Hebrew
tribes were
already in
Canaan
before the
Exodus. Or
is it a reminiscence of the
fact that the
tribe of Judah
absorbed
some South
Canaanitish
tribes which
were never
in Egypt?
Cf. Burney
in Journal of
Theological
Studies,
1908, pp.
321-352.
So LXX (Ex.
1:2); MT =?
“store cities.”
O F
returned to Egypt, but a few
of them remained in the
mountains of Hebron, and
Amram thy father remained
with them. 11 And the king
of Canaan was victorious
over the king of Egypt, and
he closed the gates of Egypt.
12 And he devised an evil
device against the children of
Israel of afflicting them; and
he said unto the people of
Egypt: 13 “Behold the people
of the children of Israel have
increased and multiplied more
than we. Come and let us deal
wisely with them before they
become too many, and let us
afflict them with slavery before
war come upon us and before
they too fight against us; else
they will join themselves unto
our enemies and get them
up out of our land, for their
hearts and faces are towards
the land of Canaan.”
14 And he set over them
taskmasters to afflict them
with slavery; and they built
strong cities for Pharaoh,
Pithom and Raamses, and
they built all the walls and all
the fortifications which had
fallen in the cities of Egypt.
15 And they made them serve
with rigour, and the more
they dealt evilly with them,
the more they increased and
multiplied. 16 And the people
M O S E S
of Egypt abominated the
children of Israel.
CHAPTER 47:
The Birth and Early
Years of Moses
(47:1-12; cf. Exod. 2)
1 And in the seventh week, in
the seventh year, in the fortyseventh jubilee, thy father
went forth from the land
of Canaan, and thou wast
born in the fourth week, in
the sixth year thereof, in the
forty-eighth jubilee; this was
the time of tribulation on the
children of Israel.
2 And Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
issued a command regarding
them that they should cast
all their male children which
were born into the river. 3 And
they cast them in for seven
months until the day that thou
wast born. And thy mother
hid thee for three months, and
they told regarding her.
4 And she made an ark for
thee, and covered it with pitch
and asphalt, and placed it in
the flags on the bank of the
river, and she placed thee in
it seven days, and thy mother
came by night and suckled
thee, and by day Miriam, thy
sister, guarded thee from the
birds. 5 And in those days
Tharmuth, the daughter of
223
2303 A.M.
i. e. Moses’
father,
Amram.
2330 A.M.
Thermuthis
(Josephus,
Ant. 2:9,
5, 7).
