The Cave of Treasures 54

N¹🔗ow the succession of the children of Israel is this: Levi, and Amram, and Moses, and Joshua, the son of Nón, and Caleb, the son of Yofanna (Jephunneh) These were born in Egypt. And when Moses was born he was cast into the river, and Shipór, the Egyptian woman, the daughter of Pharaoh, took him up, and he lived in the house of Pharaoh for forty years.

²🔗 And then he killed Pethkóm, the Egyptian, the chief of the bakers of Pharaoh. Now this was noised abroad in the house of Pharaoh, after Pharaoh’s daughter Makri, who was called “Shipór Mesrén (i.e. “Trumpet of Egypt”), was dead, and Moses was afraid, and he fled to Midian, to Reuel, the Cushite, the priest of Midian. And Moses took to wife Zipporah, the Cushite woman, daughter of the priest, and two sons were born to him—Gershom and Eliezer. And in the second year of the life of Moses, Joshua, the son of NÓn, was born in Egypt. And Moses was eighty years old when God talked with him from out of the bush, and because of his fear his tongue halted, even as he said to God, “Behold, my Lord, from the day wherein Thou didst speak to me I have been halting of tongue.” Moses lived in Egypt forty years, and in the house of the priest of Midian forty years, and he passed forty years in governing the people. And he died at the age of one hundred and twenty years on Mount Nebo.