1There was a man in the land of Egypt of the seed of Levi, whose name was

2And this man went and took a wife, namely Jochebed the daughter of Levi his

3And the woman conceived and bare a daughter, and she called her name

4And she conceived again and bare a son and she called his name Aaron, for

5In those days died Zepho the son of Eliphaz, son of Esau, king of Chittim,

6And the time that Zepho reigned over the children of Chittim was fifty

7And Janeas, one of the mighty men of the children of Chittim, reigned after

8And it was after the death of the king of Chittim that Balaam the son of

9And Pharaoh received him with great honor, for he had heard of his wisdom,

10And Balaam dwelt in Egypt, in honor with all the nobles of the king, and

11And in the hundred and thirtieth year of Israel's going down to Egypt,

12And the old man took the scales and hung them before Pharaoh.

13And the old man took all the elders of Egypt and all its nobles and great

14And he took a milk kid and put it into the other scale, and the kid

15And Pharaoh was astonished at this dreadful vision, why the kid should

16And Pharaoh rose up early in the morning and called all his servants and

17And the king said to all his wise men, Interpret I pray you the dream

18And Balaam the son of Beor answered the king and said unto him, This means

19For a son will be born to Israel who will destroy all Egypt and its

20Now therefore, O king, take counsel upon this matter, that you may destroy

21And the king said unto Balaam, And what shall we do unto Israel? surely

22Now therefore give you also advice against them by which we may prevail

23And Balaam answered the king, saying, Send now and call thy two

24And the king sent and called his two counsellors Reuel the Midianite and

25And the king said to them, Behold you have both heard the dream which I

26And Reuel the Midianite answered the king and said, May the king live, may

27If it seem good to the king, let him desist from the Hebrews and leave

28For these are they whom the Lord chose in days of old, and took as the lot

29Surely thou knowest that when Abraham went down to Egypt, Pharaoh, the

30And when the king of Egypt had taken Sarah then God smote him and his

31And Abimelech the Gerarite, king of the Philistines, God punished on

32When their God came to Abimelech in the dream of night and terrified him

33And Abimelech feared all this evil that came upon him and his people, and

34He did so also to Isaac when he had driven him from Gerar, and God had

35Until Abimelech of Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Pichol the

36And they requested of him to supplicate for them, and he prayed to the

37Jacob also, the plain man, was delivered through his integrity from the

38Surely Pharaoh the former, thy father's father, raised Joseph the son of

39After which he ordered Jacob and his children to come down to Egypt, in

40Now therefore if it seem good in thine eyes, cease from destroying the

41And when Pharaoh heard the words of Jethro he was very angry with him, so

42And the king said to Job the Uzite, What sayest thou Job, and what is thy

43So Job said to the king, Behold all the inhabitants of the land are in thy

44And the king said unto Balaam, What dost thou say, Balaam, speak thy word

45And Balaam said to the king, Of all that the king has counselled against

46For if thou thinkest to lessen them by the flaming fire, thou canst not

47And if with hard and rigorous labor thou thinkest to lessen them, thou

48Now therefore, O King, hear my words, for this is the counsel which is

49If it please the king let him order all their children which shall be born

50And the king heard the words of Balaam, and the thing pleased the king and

51And the king ordered a proclamation to be issued and a law to be made

52And Pharaoh called unto all his servants, saying, Go now and seek

53And when the children of Israel heard this thing which Pharaoh had

54And from that day forward, when the time of delivery arrived to those

55And the Lord who had sworn to their ancestors to multiply them, sent one

56And when God had compassion over them and had desired to multiply them

57And the babes of the children of Israel were upon the earth like the herb

58And when all the Egyptians saw this thing, they went forth, each to his

59And when they ploughed they were unable to hurt the infants of the

60And Pharaoh ordered his officers daily to go to Goshen to seek for the

61And when they had sought and found one, they took it from its mother's

Chapter 67

Aaron is Born. On Account of Pharaoh's decree, many of the Sons of