Jubilees 48:1-19

¹And in the sixth year of the third week of the forty-ninth jubilee you departed and dwelt in the land of Midian [2372 A.M.] five weeks and one year. And you returned into Egypt in the second week in the second year in the fiftieth jubilee [2410 A.M.].

²And you yourself know what He said to you on Mount Sinai, and what Prince Mastema desired to do with you when you were returning into Egypt, on the way when you met him at the lodging-place.

³Did he not with all his power seek to kill you and deliver the Egyptians out of your hand when he saw that you were sent to execute judgment and vengeance on the Egyptians?

⁴And I delivered you out of his hand, and you performed the signs and wonders which you were sent to perform in Egypt against Pharaoh, and against all his house, and against his servants and his people.

⁵And the Lord executed a great vengeance on them for Israel's sake, and struck them through the plagues of blood and frogs, lice and dog-flies, and malignant boils breaking out in sores; and their cattle by death; and by hailstones, by which He destroyed everything that grew for them; and by locusts which devoured the remainder that had been left by the hail, and by darkness; and by the death of the firstborn of men and animals. And on all their idols the Lord took vengeance and burned them with fire.

⁶And everything was sent through your hand, that you should declare these things before they were done, and you spoke with the king of Egypt before all his servants and before his people.

⁷And everything took place according to your words; ten great and terrible judgments came on the land of Egypt so that you might execute vengeance on it for Israel.

⁸And the Lord did everything for Israel's sake, and according to His covenant, which He had ordained with Abraham, that He would take vengeance on them, since they had brought them by force into bondage.

⁹And Prince Mastema stood up against you, and sought to cast you into the hands of Pharaoh, and he helped the Egyptian sorcerers, and they stood up and worked before you.

¹⁰The evils indeed we permitted them to work, but the remedies we did not allow to be performed by their hands.

¹¹And the Lord struck them with malignant ulcers, and they were not able to stand, for we destroyed them so that they could not perform a single sign.

¹²And notwithstanding all these signs and wonders, Prince Mastema was not put to shame, because he took courage and cried out to the Egyptians to pursue after you with all the powers of the Egyptians, with their chariots, and with their horses, and with all the hosts of the peoples of Egypt.

¹³And I stood between the Egyptians and Israel, and we delivered Israel out of his hand and out of the hand of his people, and the Lord brought them through the midst of the sea as if it were dry land.

¹⁴And all the peoples whom he brought to pursue after Israel, the Lord our God cast them into the midst of the sea, into the depths of the abyss beneath the children of Israel. Just as the people of Egypt had cast their children into the river, He took vengeance on 1,000,000 of them; and one thousand strong and energetic men were destroyed on account of one infant of the children of your people whom they had thrown into the river.

¹⁵And on the fourteenth day, and on the fifteenth, and on the sixteenth, and on the seventeenth, and on the eighteenth, Prince Mastema was bound and imprisoned behind the children of Israel, so that he might not accuse them.

¹⁶And on the nineteenth we let them loose, that they might help the Egyptians and pursue the children of Israel.

¹⁷And he hardened their hearts and made them stubborn, and the plan was devised by the Lord our God that He might strike the Egyptians and cast them into the sea.

¹⁸And on the fourteenth we bound him, so that he might not accuse the children of Israel on the day when they asked the Egyptians for vessels and garments—vessels of silver, vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze—in order to plunder the Egyptians in return for the bondage in which they had forced them to serve.

¹⁹And we did not lead the children of Israel out of Egypt empty-handed.