Book of Jasher 80
Chapter 80
1.
And at the end of two years, the Lord
again sent Moses to Pharaoh to bring forth the children of
them out of the
2.
And Moses went and came to the house
of Pharaoh, and he spoke to him the words of the Lord who had sent him, but
Pharaoh would not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and God roused his might in
and his subjects, and God smote Pharaoh and his people with very great and sore
plagues.
3.
And the Lord sent by the hand of
Aaron and turned all the waters of
with all their streams and rivers.
4.
And when an Egyptian came to drink
and draw water, he looked into his pitcher, and behold all the water was turned
into blood; and when he came to drink from his cup the water in the cup became
blood.
5.
And when a woman kneaded her dough and
cooked her victuals, their appearance was turned to that of blood.
6.
And the Lord sent again and caused
all their waters to bring forth frogs, and all the frogs came into the houses
of the Egyptians.
7.
And when the Egyptians drank, their
bellies were filled with frogs and they danced in their bellies as they dance
when in the river.
8.
And all their drinking water and
cooking water turned to frogs, also when they lay in their beds their
perspiration bred frogs.
9.
Notwithstanding all this the anger of
the Lord did not turn from them, and his hand was stretched out against all the
Egyptians to smite them with every heavy plague.
10.
And he sent and smote their dust to
lice, and the lice became in
height of two cubits upon the earth.
11.
The lice were also very numerous, in
the flesh of man and beast, in all the inhabitants of Egypt, also upon the king
and queen the Lord sent the lice, and it grieved Egypt exceedingly on account
of the lice.
12.
Notwithstanding this, the anger of
the Lord did not turn away, and his hand was still stretched out over
13.
And the Lord sent all kinds of beasts
of the field into
came and destroyed all
beast, and trees, and all things that were in
14.
And the Lord sent fiery serpents,
scorpions, mice, weasels, toads, together with others creeping in dust.
15.
Flies, hornets, fleas, bugs and
gnats, each swarm according to its kind.
16.
And all reptiles and winged animals
according to their kind came to
the Egyptians exceedingly.
17.
And the fleas and flies came into the
eyes and ears of the Egyptians.
18.
And the hornet came upon them and
drove them away, and they removed from it into their inner rooms, and it
pursued them.
19.
And when the Egyptians hid themselves
on account of the swarm of animals, they locked their doors after them, and God
ordered the Sulanuth which was in the sea, to come up
and go into
20.
And she had long arms, ten cubits in
length of the cubit of a man.
21.
And she went upon the roofs and
uncovered the raftering and flooring and cut them, and stretched forth her arm
into the house and removed the lock and the bolt, and opened the houses of
22.
Afterward came the swarm of animals
into the houses of
swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians, and it grieved them exceedingly.
23.
Notwithstanding this the anger of the
Lord did not turn away from the Egyptians, and his hand was yet stretched forth
against them.
24.
And God sent the pestilence, and the
pestilence pervaded
horses and asses, and in the camels, in herds of oxen and sheep and in man.
25.
And when the Egyptians rose up early
in the morning to take their cattle to pasture they found all their cattle
dead.
26.
And there remained of the cattle of
the Egyptians only one in ten, and of the cattle belonging to
died.
27.
And God sent a burning inflammation
in the flesh of the Egyptians, which burst their skins, and it became a severe
itch in all the Egyptians from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their
heads.
28.
And many boils were in their flesh,
that their flesh wasted away until they became rotten and putrid.
29.
Notwithstanding this the anger of the
Lord did not turn away, and his hand was still stretched out over all
30.
And the Lord sent a very heavy hail,
which smote their vines and broke their fruit trees and dried them up that they
fell upon them.
31.
Also every green herb became dry and
perished, for a mingling fire descended amidst the hail, therefore the hail and
the fire consumed all things.
32.
Also men and beasts that were found
abroad perished of the flames of fire and of the hail, and all the young lions
were exhausted.
33.
And the Lord sent and brought
numerous locusts into
each of its kind, which devoured all that the hail had left remaining.
34.
Then the Egyptians rejoiced at the
locusts, although they consumed the produce of the field, and they caught them
in abundance and salted them for food.
35.
And the Lord turned a mighty wind of
the sea which took away all the locusts, even those that were salted, and
thrust them into the
locust remained within the boundaries of
36.
And God sent darkness upon
whole
see his hand when he lifted it to his mouth.
37.
At that time died many of the people
of
rebelled against the Lord and who would not hearken to Moses and Aaron, and
believed not in them that God had sent them.
38.
And who had said, We will not go
forth from
perish with hunger in a desolate wilderness, and who would not hearken to the
voice of Moses.
39.
And the Lord plagued them in the
three days of darkness, and the Israelites buried them in those days, without
the Egyptians knowing of them or rejoicing over them.
40.
And the darkness was very great in
Egypt for three days, and any person who was standing when the darkness came,
remained standing in his place, and he that was sitting remained sitting, and
he that was lying continued lying in the same state, and he that was walking
remained sitting upon the ground in the same spot; and this thing happened to
all the Egyptians, until the darkness had passed away.
41.
And the days of darkness passed away,
and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron to the children of Israel, saying, Celebrate
your feast and make your Passover, for behold I come in the midst of the night
amongst all the Egyptians, and I will smite all their first born, from the
first born of a man to the first born of a beast, and when I see your Passover,
I will pass over you.
42.
And the children of
according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus did they in
that night.
43.
And it came to pass in the middle of
the night, that the Lord went forth in the midst of
all the first born of the Egyptians, from the first born of man to the first
born of beast.
44.
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he
and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry
throughout
night, for there was not a house in which there was not a corpse.
45.
Also the likenesses of the first born
of
carved in the walls at their houses, were destroyed and fell to the ground.
46.
Even the bones of their first born
who had died before this and whom they had buried in their houses, were raked up
by the dogs of Egypt on that night and dragged before the Egyptians and cast
before them.
47.
And all the Egyptians saw this evil
which had suddenly come upon them, and all the Egyptians cried out with a loud
voice.
48.
And all the families of
night, each man for his son and each man for his daughter, being the first
born, and the tumult of
a distance on that night.
49.
And Bathia
the daughter of Pharaoh went forth with the king on that night to seek Moses
and Aaron in their houses, and they found them in their houses, eating and
drinking and rejoicing with all
50.
And Bathia
said to Moses, Is this the reward for the good which I have done to thee, who
have reared thee and stretched thee out, and thou hast brought this evil upon
me and my father’s house?
51.
And Moses said to her, Surely ten
plagues did the Lord bring upon
evil accrue to thee from any of them? did one of them affect thee? and she
said, No.
52.
And Moses said to her, Although thou
art the first born to thy mother, thou shalt not die,
and no evil shall reach thee in the midst of
53.
And she said, What advantage is it to
me, when I see the king, my brother, and all his household and subjects in this
evil, whose first born perish with all the first born of
54.
And Moses said to her, Surely thy
brother and his household, and subjects, the families of
hearken to the words of the Lord, therefore did this evil come upon them.
55.
And Pharaoh king of
Moses and Aaron, and some of the children of
with them in that place, and he prayed to them, saying,
56.
Rise up and take your brethren, all
the children of Israel who are in the land, with their sheep and oxen, and all
belonging to them, they shall leave nothing remaining, only pray for me to the
Lord your God.
57.
And Moses said to Pharaoh, Behold
though thou art thy mother’s first born, yet fear not, for thou wilt not die,
for the Lord has commanded that thou shalt live, in
order to show thee his great might and strong stretched out arm.
58.
And Pharaoh ordered the children of
away, and all the Egyptians strengthened themselves to send them, for they
said, We are all perishing.
59.
And all the Egyptians sent the
Israelites forth, with great riches, sheep and oxen and precious things,
according to the oath of the Lord between him and our Father Abraham.
60.
And the children of
going forth at night, and when the Egyptians came to them to bring them out,
they said to them, Are we thieves, that we should go forth at night?
61.
And the children of
Egyptians, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and the
children of
Egyptians.
62.
And Moses hastened and rose up and
went to the
up from thence the coffin of Joseph and took it with him.
63.
The children of
up, each man his father’s coffin with him, and each man the coffins of his
tribe.
