1In the fifty-fifth year of the reign of Pharaoh king of Egypt, that is in

2Moses was twenty-seven years old when he began to reign over Cush, and

3And the Lord granted Moses favor and grace in the eyes of all the children

4And in the seventh day of his reign, all the children of Cush assembled and

5And all the children spoke together in the presence of the king, saying,

6For it is now nine years that we have been besieging round about the city,

7So the king answered them, saying, If you will hearken to my voice in all

8For if we fight with them as in the former battle which we had with them

9Now therefore behold here is counsel for you in this matter; if you will

10So all the forces answered the king, saying, All that our lord shall

11And Moses said unto them, Pass through and proclaim a voice in the whole

12Thus says the king, Go into the forest and bring with you of the young

13And any person transgressing the word of the king, who shall not bring his

14And when you shall bring them they shall be in your keeping, you shall

15So all the children of Cush heard the words of Moses, and they rose up and

16Unto you, all the children of Cush, the king's order is, that you go all

17And any person violating the order of the king shall die, and the king

18And all the people did so, and they went out to the wood and they climbed

19And after the young storks were reared, the king ordered them to be

20And on the third day, the king said unto them, strengthen yourselves and

21And we will rise up and fight against the city at the place where the

22And they took each man his young one in his hand, and they went away, and

23And they sent forth each man his young stork at the king's order, and the

24And when the king and people had seen that all the serpents were destroyed

25An d they approached and fought against the city and took it and subdued

26And there died on that day one thousand and one hundred men of the people

27So all the children of Cush went each to his home, to his wife and

28And Balaam the magician, when he saw that the city was taken, he opened

29They are the sorcerers and magicians who are mentioned in the book of the

30So Moses took the city by his wisdom, and the children of Cush placed him

31And they placed the royal crown upon his head, and they gave him for a

32And Moses feared the Lord God of his fathers, so that he came not to her,

33For Moses remembered how Abraham had made his servant Eliezer swear,

34Also what Isaac did when Jacob had fled from his brother, when he

35For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and all

36Therefore Moses turned not his heart nor his eyes to the wife of Kikianus

37And Moses feared the Lord his God all his life, and Moses walked before

38And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of Cush, and

39And at that time Aram and the children of the east heard that Kikianus

40And Moses gathered all the children of Cush, a people very mighty, about

41And they went at first to the children of the east, and when the children

42And the war was severe against the children of the east, so the Lord gave

43And all the children of the east turned back and retreated, so Moses and

44So Moses and all the people with him passed from there to the land of Aram

45And the people of Aram also went to meet them, and they fought against

46And Aram also were subdued by Moses and the people of Cush, and also gave

47And Moses brought Aram and the children of the east under subjection to

48And Moses strengthened himself in the kingdom of the children of Cush, and

Chapter 73

The Reign of Moses, and his Strategic Warfare.