1Adikam was twenty years old when he reigned over Egypt, he reigned four

2In the two hundred and sixth year of Israel's going down to Egypt did

3For Melol his father reigned ninety-four years in Egypt, but he was ten

4And all the Egyptians called the name of Adikam Pharaoh like the name of

5And all the wise men of Pharaoh called the name of Adikam Ahuz, for short

6And Adikam was exceedingly ugly, and he was a cubit and a span and he had a

7And Pharaoh sat upon his father's throne to reign over Egypt, and he

8And whilst he reigned he exceeded his father and all the preceding kings in

9And he went with his servants to Goshen to the children of Israel, and he

10And he placed officers over them from amongst the children of Israel, and

11And he placed over them a measure of bricks for them to do according to

12At that time the task-masters of Pharaoh ordered the officers of the

13Thus says Pharaoh, Do your work each day, and finish your task, and

14And it shall come to pass that if you are deficient in your daily bricks,

15And the task-masters of Egypt did so in those days as Pharaoh had ordered

16And whenever any deficiency was found in the children of Israel's measure

17Whilst their fathers and mothers were crying over them and weeping when

18And the task-masters prevailed over Israel, that the Israelites should

19And the task-masters of Egypt did so to the babes of Israel for many days,

20And the number of all the children killed in the building was two hundred

21And the labor imposed upon the children of Israel in the days of Adikam

22And the children of Israel sighed every day on account of their heavy

23But they increased the latter work more than the former, and the children

24And God heard the voice of the children of Israel and their cry, in those

25And God saw the burden of the children of Israel, and their heavy work in

26And Moses the son of Amram was still confined in the dungeon in those

27And Moses was confined in the dungeon in the house of Reuel for ten years.

28And at the end of ten years, which was the first year of the reign of

29Zipporah said to her father Reuel, No person inquires or seeks after the

30Now therefore, if it seem good in thy sight, let us send and see whether

31And Reuel her father answered and said to her, Has ever such a thing

32And Zipporah answered her father, saying, Surely thou hast heard that the

33He it was who delivered Abraham from Ur of the Chaldeans, and Isaac from

34Also with this man has he done many things, he delivered him from the

35And the thing seemed good in the sight of Reuel, and he did according to

36And he saw, and behold the man Moses was living in the dungeon, standing

37And Reuel commanded Moses to be brought out of the dungeon, so they shaved

38And afterward Moses went into the garden of Reuel which was behind the

39And it was that whilst he prayed he looked opposite to him, and behold a

40And he approached the stick and he looked, and behold the name of the Lord

41And he read it and stretched forth his hand and he plucked it like a

42And this is the stick with which all the works of our God were performed,

43And when God had driven Adam from the garden of Eden, he took the stick in

44And the stick came down to Noah and was given to Shem and his descendents,

45And when Abraham had given all he had to his son Isaac, he also gave to

46And when Jacob had fled to Padan-aram, he took it into his hand, and when

47Also when he went down to Egypt he took it into his hand and gave it to

48And after the death of Joseph, the nobles of Egypt came into the house of

49And all the mighty men of the Kinites tried to pluck it when they

50So that stick remained planted in the garden of Reuel, until he came who

51And when Reuel saw the stick in the hand of Moses, he wondered at it, and

Chapter 77

Adikam Pharaoh Afflicts Israel more than ever. Moses is Released