The Book of Jasher Chapter 69, Pharaoh Proclaims, that if any of the Israelites are short in their Labor, either in Bricks or Mortar, his Youngest Son shall be put in their Place
The Book of Jasher
Referred to in Joshua and Second Samuel
Faithfully Translated
FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW INTO ENGLISH
Chapter 69
Pharaoh Proclaims, that if any of the Israelites
are short in their Labor, either in Bricks or Mortar, his Youngest Son shall
be put in their Place.
1 And the king of Edom died in those days, in the
eighteenth year of his reign, and was buried in his temple which he had built for
himself as his royal residence in the land of Edom.
2 And the children of Esau sent to Pethor, which is
upon the river, and they fetched from there a young man of beautiful eyes and comely
aspect, whose name was Saul, and they made him king over them in the place of Samlah.
3 And Saul reigned over all the children of Esau in
the land of Edom for forty years.
4 And when Pharaoh king of Egypt saw that the counsel
which Balaam had advised respecting the children of Israel did not succeed, but
that still they were fruitful, multiplied and increased throughout the land of Egypt,
5 Then Pharaoh commanded in those days that a proclamation
should be issued throughout Egypt to the children of Israel, saying, No man shall
diminish any thing of his daily labor.
6 And the man who shall be found deficient in his
labor which he performs daily, whether in mortar or in bricks, then his youngest
son shall be put in their place.
7 And the labor of Egypt strengthened upon the children
of Israel in those days, and behold if one brick was deficient in any man's daily
labor, the Egyptians took his youngest boy by force from his mother, and put him
into the building in the place of the brick which his father had left wanting.
8 And the men of Egypt did so to all the children
of Israel day by day, all the days for a long period.
9 But the tribe of Levi did not at that time work
with the Israelites their brethren, from the beginning, for the children of Levi
knew the cunning of the Egyptians which they exercised at first toward the Israelites.
