The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 228
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permitted them to work, but
the remedies we did not allow
to be wrought by their hands.
11 And Yahuah smote them
with malignant ulcers, and
Cf. Ex. 9:11
they were not able to stand for
we destroyed them so that they
could not perform a single
sign. 12 And notwithstanding
all (these) signs and wonders
the prince of the Mastêmâ
was not put to shame because
he took courage and cried to
the Egyptians to pursue after
thee with all the powers of the
Egyptians, with their chariots,
and with their horses, and
with all the hosts of the
Cf. Ex.
14:8, 9 peoples of Egypt. 13 And I
stood between the Egyptians
and Israel, and we delivered
Israel out of his hand, and
out of the hand of his people,
and Yahuah brought them
through the midst of the sea as
if it were dry land. 14 And all
the peoples whom he brought
to pursue after Israel, Yahuah
our Elohim cast them into
the midst of the sea, into the
depths of the abyss beneath
the children of Israel, even as
the people of Egypt had cast
their children into the river. He
took vengeance on 1,000,000
of them, and one thousand
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strong and energetic men were
destroyed on account of one
suckling of the children of thy
people which they had thrown Cf. Wisdom
into the river. 15 And on the 18:5
fourteenth day and on the
fifteenth and on the sixteenth
and on the seventeenth and
on the eighteenth the prince
of the Mastêmâ was bound
and imprisoned behind the
children of Israel that he
might not accuse them. 16
And on the nineteenth we let i. e. the
of the
them loose that they might prince
Mastêmâ
help the Egyptians and pursue (substituted
for Yahuah
14:8).
the children of Israel. 17 And inHeEx.
was the
he hardened their hearts and allowed by
Yahuah
made them stubborn, and the to oppose
Israel in such
device was devised by Yahuah manner. It
was His plan.
our Elohim that He might
smite the Egyptians and cast
them into the sea. 18 And on
the fourteenth we bound him
that he might not accuse the
children of Israel on the day
when they asked the Egyptians
for vessels and garments,
vessels of silver, and vessels of
gold, and vessels of bronze, in Cf. Ex.
order to despoil the Egyptians 12:35 f
in return for the bondage in
which they had forced them to
serve. 19 And we did not lead
forth the children of Israel
from Egypt empty handed.
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