Jubilees 47

In the fourth week, in the sixth year of the forty-eighth jubilee, you were born. This was the time of tribulation for the children of Israel.

REF And in the forty-eighth jubilee thou wast born.

Pharaoh king of Egypt decreed: every male child born to the Israelites was to be thrown into the river.

REF And Pharaoh commanded that all male children be cast into the river.

They carried out the drownings for seven months, until you were born. Your mother hid you for three months.

REF And thy mother hid thee for three months.

She made an ark, coated it with pitch and tar, placed it among the reeds on the riverbank, and set you in it for seven days.

REF And she made an ark and placed thee in the reeds.

Pharaoh's daughter Tharmuth came to bathe in the river. She heard you crying and told her attendants to fetch you.

REF And the daughter of Pharaoh, Tharmuth, found thee.

She lifted you out of the ark and felt compassion for you.

REF And she had compassion on thee.

Your sister said: Shall I find a Hebrew woman to nurse this child? She said: Go.

REF And thy sister said: 'Shall I find a Hebrew nurse?'

She went and called your mother Jochebed. She was paid wages, and she nursed you.

REF And she called thy mother Jochebed.

When you were grown, they brought you to Pharaoh's daughter. You became her son. Your father Amram taught you to write.

REF And thou wast brought to the daughter of Pharaoh.

You were at court for three weeks of years until you saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite. You struck the Egyptian dead and buried him.

REF And thou wast at court until thou didst slay the Egyptian.

The next day you found two Israelites fighting. One said: Who made you ruler over us? Do you plan to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? You fled.

REF And on the next day two Israelites were fighting.

You fled to Midian, lived with Jethro the priest, married his daughter Zipporah, and she bore you sons.

REF And thou didst flee to Midian and married Zipporah.