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to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and he will go out with you to the river, and strike with your rod the waters of the river, and you will turn them to blood." And when this happened, all the waters were turned to blood, and the fish in the river died, and the Egyptians were not able to drink water, because all the waters were turned into blood. But the magicians of the Egyptians also did likewise with their sorceries; but the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not listen to them. And after seven days, Moses, having been summoned by Pharaoh, prayed, and again the waters became pure. And Moses says to Pharaoh, "Behold, you have seen the power of the God of Israel; let the people go, that we may worship God." But Pharaoh, while agreeing, delayed. And Moses prayed to God to send plagues upon the Egyptians, so that Pharaoh would be compelled to let Israel go. And the Lord God sent upon the Egyptians the tenfold wrath, so that he summoned Moses and said to him, "Pray to your God, that this land may be delivered from so many evils; and as the Lord your God lives, I will not hinder you from taking your people Israel to worship him." But Pharaoh, having gone to Memphis to the renowned oracle, and having received the aforementioned oracle, and having returned, immediately let Israel 1.85 go with Moses and Aaron. And the people took from the Egyptians for their use vessels of gold and silver and much clothing. And after they had gone out, Pharaoh repented, and pursued after them with his chariots, and he overtook them by the Red Sea. When the Israelites saw them, they cried out to God. And stretching out his hand, Moses struck the sea with a rod, and the waters were divided, and all the people crossed as through dry land. And behind him, all the Egyptians also entered together with Pharaoh with their chariots. And seeing them crossing, the Israelites were seized with infinite fear. But Moses, stretching out his rod to turn it back, restored the water to its place. And all the Egyptians fled under the water, with none being left. When the Israelites saw this, they glorified God who had delivered them, with Moses and Aaron leading, and saying, "Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been gloriously glorified," with their sister Maria following with the women, and striking the timbrel. That in the book of Jubilees it is stated that the infants of the Israelites were thrown into the river for only ten months, until Moses was taken up by the princess; for this reason ten plagues were given in ten months to the Egyptians, and finally they were destroyed in the sea in the same way they drowned the infants of the Hebrews in the river, with a thousand strong Egyptian men being drowned for each 1.86 Israelite infant. And Pharaoh's daughter adopted Moses himself into the royal family, but she did not release the Israelites from their assigned labor. But when Moses came to manhood, the Ethiopians, having crossed the Indus river, were terribly plundering Egypt, so as to overthrow almost all the cities and destroy its army and slay the generals. So they remained fighting the Egyptians for five years. Therefore, being in great difficulty, the Egyptians consult an oracle to entrust the command to Moses, and they ask Thermuthis to permit him the command; but she reproached them and showed them to be evil, along with the sacred scribes, for having wished to plot the death of the child; nevertheless, she sent him out to fight for his country, with the boy most gladly accepting the command and feeling no anxiety. For he grew, adorned with every virtue and educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, as a king's son and having a capable nature, and brave in wars. He, being thirty years old, undertook such a war; and for ten years he fought the Ethiopians to the utmost and devastated all of Ethiopia, and Saba

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πρὸς Μωϋσῆν "βάδισον πρὸς Φαραώ, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται μετά σου εἰς τὸν ποταμόν, καὶ τύψον τῇ ῥάβδῳ σου τὰ ὕδατα τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ μεταβαλεῖς αὐτὰ εἰς αἷμα." καὶ τούτου γενομένου μετεβλήθη πάντα τὰ ὕδατα εἰς αἷμα, καὶ ἀπέθανον οἱ ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ ἰχθύες, καὶ οὐκ ἠδύναντο πιεῖν ὕδωρ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι, ὅτι πάντα τὰ ὕδατα μετεστράφη εἰς αἷμα. ἐποίησαν δὲ καὶ οἱ ἐπαοιδοὶ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ταῖς φαρμα κείαις αὐτῶν ὡσαύτως· ἐσκληρύνθη δὲ ἡ καρδία Φαραώ, καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσεν αὐτῶν. καὶ μετὰ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας παρακληθεὶς Μωϋσῆς ὑπὸ τοῦ Φαραὼ προσηύξατο, καὶ πάλιν ἐγένετο τὰ ὕδατα καθαρά. καὶ λέγει Μωϋσῆς τῷ Φαραώ "ἰδού, εἶδες τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ Ἰσραὴλ δύναμιν· ἀπόλυσον τὸν λαόν, ἵνα λατρεύσωμεν τῷ θεῷ." ὁ δὲ Φαραὼ συντασσόμενος ἀνεβάλλετο. καὶ ηὔξατο Μωϋσῆς πρὸς τὸν θεὸν πέμψαι πληγὰς τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις, ἵνα ἀναγκασθῇ Φαραὼ ἀπολῦσαι τὸν Ἰσραήλ. καὶ ἔπεμψε κύριος ὁ θεὸς τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις τὴν δεκάπληγον ὀργήν, ὥστε παρακαλέσαι τὸν Μωϋσέα καὶ εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ "εὖξαι τῷ θεῷ σου, ἵνα ῥυσθῇ ἡ χώρα αὕτη τῶν τοσού των κακῶν· καὶ ζῇ κύριος ὁ θεός σου, οὐ κωλύσω σε λαβεῖν τὸν λαόν σου τὸν Ἰσραὴλ εἰς τὸ λατρεῦσαι ὑμᾶς αὐτῷ." ὁ δὲ Φαραὼ ἀπελθὼν ἐν Μέμφει εἰς τὸ περιβόητον μαντεῖον, καὶ λαβὼν τὸν προρρηθέντα χρησμὸν καὶ ὑποστρέψας εὐθέως ἀπέλυσε τὸν 1.85 Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ Μωϋσέως καὶ Ἀαρών. ἔλαβε δὲ ὁ λαὸς ἐν χρήσει ἀπὸ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων σκεύη χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ ἱματισμὸν πο λύν. καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν αὐτοὺς μετεμελήθη Φαραώ, καὶ κατε δίωξεν ὀπίσω αὐτῶν μετὰ τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτοῦ, καὶ κατέλαβεν αὐτοὺς παρὰ τὴν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν. οὓς θεασάμενοι οἱ Ἰσραη λῖται ἀνεβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν. καὶ ἐκτείνας τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ Μωϋσῆς ἔπληξε τὴν θάλασσαν ῥάβδῳ, καὶ διῃρέθη τὰ ὕδατα, καὶ διέβη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὡς διὰ ξηρᾶς. ὄπισθεν δὲ τούτου εἰσῆλθον καὶ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι πάντες ἅμα τῷ Φαραὼ μετὰ τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐ τῶν. ἰδόντες δὲ αὐτοὺς οἱ Ἰσραηλῖται διερχομένους φόβῳ συνε σχέθησαν ἀπείρῳ. ὁ δὲ Μωϋσῆς ἐκτείνας τὴν ῥάβδον αὐτοῦ ἐπι στρεπτικῶς ἀποκατέστησε τὸ ὕδωρ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἔφυ γον πάντες οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ὑπὸ τὸ ὕδωρ, μηδενὸς ὑπολειφθέντος. ὅπερ θεασάμενοι οἱ Ἰσραηλῖται τὸν ῥυσάμενον αὐτοὺς θεὸν ἐδοξο λόγουν, προηγουμένων τοῦ Μωϋσέως καὶ τοῦ Ἀαρών, καὶ λεγόν των "ᾄσωμεν τῷ κυρίῳ, ἐνδόξως γὰρ δεδόξασται," ἐφεπομένης τῆς ἀδελφῆς αὐτῶν Μαρίας μετὰ τῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ ἀνακρουο μένης τὸ τύμπανον. Ὅτι ἐν τῇ λεπτῇ Γενέσει κεῖται μόνους δέκα μῆνας ῥιφῆναι τὰ βρέφη τῶν Ἰσραηλιτῶν ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ, ἕως οὗ ἀνελήφθη Μωϋσῆς ὑπὸ τῆς βασιλίσσης· διὰ τοῦτο δέκα πληγαὶ ἐδόθησαν ἐν δέκα μησὶ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις, καὶ τέλος ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ κατεστρά φησαν ὃν τρόπον τὰ βρέφη τῶν Ἑβραίων ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ ἀπέπνι γον, χιλίων ἀνδρῶν ἀποπνιγέντων ἰσχυρῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀνθ' ἑνὸς 1.86 βρέφους Ἰσραηλιτικοῦ. αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν Μωϋσῆν εἰς τὸ βασιλικὸν γένος εἰσεποιήσατο ἡ θυγάτηρ Φαραώ, οὐ μέντοι ἀνῆκε τῆς ἐπι ταγείσης ἐργασίας τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας. ἀνδρωθέντος δὲ τοῦ Μωϋ σέως ὑπερβάντες Αἰθίοπες τὸν Ἰνδὸν ποταμὸν δεινῶς τὴν Αἴγυ πτον ἐληίζοντο, ὡς τὰς πόλεις σχεδὸν πάσας ἀνατρέψαι καὶ τὸν στρατὸν αὐτῆς ἀφανίσαι καὶ τοὺς στρατηγοὺς ἀποσφάξαι. ἔμειναν οὖν Αἰγυπτίοις πολεμοῦντες ἐπὶ ἔτη πέντε. ἐν ἀπορίᾳ γοῦν πολλῇ καταστάντες Αἰγύπτιοι χρησμεύονται ὡς τῷ Μωϋσῇ τὴν στρατη γίαν ἐγχειρίσαι, καὶ παρακαλοῦσι τὴν Θέρμουθιν ἐπιτρέψαι αὐτῷ τὴν στρατηγίαν· ἡ δ' ὠνείδιζεν αὐτοὺς καὶ κακοὺς ἀπέφαινε σὺν τοῖς ἱερογραμματεῦσιν εἰς θάνατον ἐπιβουλεῦσαι τῷ παιδὶ βουλη θέντας· ὅμως ὡς ὑπὲρ πατρίδος πολεμήσαντα ἐξαπέστειλεν, ἀσμε νέστατα τοῦ παιδὸς δεξαμένου τὴν ἐπιταγὴν καὶ μηδὲν ἀγωνιάσαν τος. ηὐξήθη γὰρ πάσῃ ἀρετῇ κοσμηθεὶς καὶ παιδευθεὶς πᾶσαν σοφίαν Αἰγυπτίων, ὡς βασιλέως υἱὸς καὶ φύσιν ἔχων δεξιάν, ἀν δρεῖός τε ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις. ὃς τριακοντούτης τυγχάνων τοιοῦτον πόλεμον ἀνεδέξατο· καὶ ἐπὶ δέκα ἔτη ἐσχάτως τοὺς Αἰθίοπας πολεμήσας καὶ Αἰθιοπίαν πᾶσαν ἀφανίσας, τήν τε Σαβὰ