1And it was in those days that there was a great war between the children of

2So Kikianus king of Cush went forth with all the children of Cush, a people

3And when Kikianus went out, he left Balaam the magician, with his two sons,

4So Kikianus went forth to Aram and the children of the east, and he fought

5And he took many of them captives and he brought them under subjection as

6And Balaam the son of Beor, when the king of Cush had left him to guard the

7And the people of the land hearkened to him, and they swore to him and made

8So they rose up and raised the walls of the city at the two corners, and

9And at the third corner they dug ditches without number, between the city

10At the fourth corner they collected numerous serpents by their

11And Kikianus fought against Aram and the children of the east and he

12And when Kikianus the king of Cush approached his city and all the

13And they said one to the other, It is because they saw that we were

14So the king and the troops approached the city door and they looked up and

15But the sentinels refused to open to them by the order of Balaam the

16So they raised a battle with them opposite the city gate, and one hundred

17And on the next day they continued to fight and they fought at the side of

18So the king ordered them to cut down trees to make rafts, upon which they

19And when they came to the place of the ditches, the waters revolved by

20And on the third day they came to fight at the side where the serpents

21At that time that the war and the siege were against Cush, Moses fled from

22And Moses was eighteen years old when he fled from Egypt from the presence

23And Moses was nine years in the camp of Kikianus king of Cush, all the

24And the king and princes and all the fighting men loved Moses, for he was

25And at the end of nine years, Kikianus was seized with a mortal disease,

26So his servants embalmed him and carried him and buried him opposite the

27And they built over him an elegant strong and high building, and they

28And the king's scribes engraved upon those stones all the might of their

29Now after the death of Kikianus king of Cush it grieved his men and troops

30So they said one to the other, Give us counsel what we are to do at this

31If we say we will fight against the city many of us will fall wounded or

32For now all the kings of Aram and of the children of the east will hear

33Now therefore let us go and make a king over us, and let us remain in the

34And they wished to choose on that day a man for king from the army of

35And they hastened and stripped off each man his garments and cast them

36And they rose up and blew with trumpets and called out before him, and

37And all the people and nobles swore unto him to give him for a wife

38And all the people of Cush issued a proclamation on that day, saying,

39And they spread out a sheet upon the heap, and every man cast into it

40Also of onyx stones, bdellium, pearls and marble did the children of Cush

41And Moses took all the silver and gold, all the vessels, and the bdellium

42And Moses reigned over the children of Cush on that day, in the place of

Chapter 72

Moses flees to Cush. At the Death of the king, he is chosen in his