The Massacre of the Innocents
47 And in the seventh week, in the seventh year, in the forty-seventh jubilee, thy father came from the land of Canaan, and thou wast born in the fourth week, in the sixth year, in the forty-eighth jubilee, which are the days of the persecution over the sons of Israel. 2And King Pharaoh, of Egypt, issued a command concerning them, that they should throw all their children, every male, into the river. 3And they threw them in seven months, until the day when thou wast born: but thy mother hid thee three months; and they told about her. 4And she made for thee an ark, and covered it with pitch and asphalt, and laid it in the grass, on the bank of the river, and placed thee into it seven days; and thy mother came in the night and nursed thee, and during the days thy sister Miriam protected thee from the wild animals.
5And in those days Tarmuth, the daughter of Pharaoh, came to bathe in the river, and she heard thy voice crying, and she told her Hebrew maidens that they should bring thee out; and they brought thee to them. 6And they took thee out of the ark, and she pitied thee.
Moses Raised in the Courts of the King of Egypt
7And thy sister said: "Shall I go and call for thee one of the Hebrew women, who shall raise and nurse this child for thee?"
8And she said: "Go."
9And she went and called thy mother Jokabed, and she gave her wages, and she raised thee. 10And when thou didst grow, they brought thee to the house of Pharaoh, and thou becamest his son; and Anbaram, thy father, taught thee writing.
11And when thou didst complete three weeks, he brought thee to the royal court. 12And thou wast in the court three weeks of years, until the day when thou didst go out of the royal court, and didst see the Egyptian as he was beating thy friend from among the children of Israel. 13And thou slewest him and hid him in the sand, and on the following day thou foundest two of the children of Israel quarrelling, and didst say to the more powerful: "Why dost thou beat thy brother?"
14And he became angry and wroth, and said: "Who has set thee a ruler and prince over us? 15Dost thou desire to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?" 16And thou didst fear and flee on account of these words.