YASHAR 58 (Jasher 58)

1 And it came to be in the thirty-second year of the Yisra’ĕlites going down to Mitsrayim, that is in the seventy-first year of the life of Yosĕph, in that year Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim died, and Maḡron his son reigned in his place. 2 And Pharaoh commanded Yosĕph before his death to be a father to his son, Maḡron, and that Maḡron should be under the care of Yosĕph and under his counsel. 3 And all Mitsrayim agreed to this matter that Yosĕph should be sovereign over them, for all the Mitsrites loved Yosĕph as of before, only Maḡron son of Pharaoh sat upon his father's throne, and he became sovereign in those days in his father's place. 4 Maḡron was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Mitsrayim. And all Mitsrayim called his name Pharaoh after the name of his father, as it was their custom to do in Mitsrayim to every sovereign that reigned over them. 5 And it came to be when Pharaoh reigned in his father's place, he put the laws of Mitsrayim and all the affairs of the reign in the hand of Yosĕph, as his father had commanded him. 6 And Yosĕph became sovereign over Mitsrayim, for he was overseer over all Mitsrayim, and all Mitsrayim was under his care and under his counsel, for all Mitsrayim inclined to Yosĕph after the death of Pharaoh, and they loved him exceedingly to reign over them. 7 But there were some people among them, who did not like him, saying, \"No stranger shall reign over us.\" Still the whole reign of Mitsrayim fell in those days upon Yosĕph, after the death of Pharaoh, he being the official, doing as he liked throughout the land without anyone interfering. 8 And all Mitsrayim was under the care of Yosĕph, and Yosĕph fought against all his surrounding enemies, and he subdued them. Yosĕph also subdued all the land and all the Pelishtites to the borders of Kena'an, and they were all under his power and they gave a yearly levy to Yosĕph. 9 And Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim sat on his throne in his father's place, but he was under the control and counsel of Yosĕph, as he was at first under the control of his father. 10 Neither did he reign but in the land of Mitsrayim only, under the counsel of Yosĕph, but Yosĕph reigned over the whole country at that time, from Mitsrayim to the great river Perath. 11 And Yosĕph was successful in all his ways, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was with him, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave Yosĕph additional wisdom, and honour, and esteem, and love toward him in the hearts of the Mitsrites and throughout the land, and Yosĕph reigned over the whole country forty years. 12 And all the countries of the Pelishtites and Kena'an and Tsiḏon, and on the other side of Yardĕn, brought presents to Yosĕph all his days, and the whole country was in the hand of Yosĕph. And they brought to him a yearly tribute as it was decreed, for Yosĕph had fought against all his surrounding enemies and subdued them. And the whole country was in the hand of Yosĕph, and Yosĕph sat safely on his throne in Mitsrayim. 13 And also all his brothers, the sons of Ya’aqoḇ dwelt safely in the land, all the days of Yosĕph, and they were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly in the land, and they served 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 all their days, as their father Ya’aqoḇ had commanded them. 14 And it came to be at the end of many days and years, when the children of Ĕsaw were dwelling quietly in their land with Bela their sovereign, that the children of Ĕsaw were fruitful and multiplied in the land, and they resolved to go and fight against the sons of Ya’aqoḇ and all Mitsrayim, and to deliver their brother Tsepho, son of Eliphaz, and his men, for they were still slaves in those days to Yosĕph. 15 And the children of Ĕsaw sent to all the children of the East, and they made peace with them, and all the children of the East came to them to go with the children of Ĕsaw to Mitsrayim to battle. 16 And there also came to them some of the people of Angĕas, sovereign of Dinhaḇah, and they also sent to the children of Yishma’ĕl and they also came to them. 17 And all this people assembled and came to Sĕ’ir to assist the children of Ĕsaw in their battle, and this camp was very large and great with people, numerous as the sand of the sea - about eight hundred thousand men - foot soldiers and cavalry, and all these companies went down to Mitsrayim to fight against the sons of Ya’aqoḇ, and they encamped by Ra'meses. 18 And Yosĕph went out with his brothers with the mighty men of Mitsrayim - about six hundred men - and they fought with them in the land of Ra'meses. And at that time the sons of Ya’aqoḇ fought with the children of Ĕsaw again, in the fiftieth year of the sons of Ya’aqoḇ going down to Mitsrayim, that is the thirtieth year of the reign of Bela over the children of Ĕsaw in Sĕ’ir. 19 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 gave all the mighty men of Ĕsaw and the children of the East into the hand of Yosĕph and his brothers, and the people of the children of Ĕsaw and the children of the East were smitten before Yosĕph. 20 And of the people of Ĕsaw and the children of the East that were slain, there fell before the sons of Ya’aqoḇ, about two hundred thousand men, and their sovereign Bela son of Be'or fell with them in the battle. And when the children of Ĕsaw saw that their sovereign had fallen in battle and was dead, their hands became weak in the battle. 21 And Yosĕph and his brothers and all Mitsrayim were still smiting the people of the house of Ĕsaw, and all Ĕsaw’s people were afraid of the sons of Ya’aqoḇ and fled from before them. 22 And Yosĕph and his brothers and all Mitsrayim pursued them a day's journey, and they further slew from them about three hundred men, continuing to smite them on the way; and afterward they turned back from them. 23 And Yosĕph and all his brothers returned to Mitsrayim, not one man was missing from them, but of the Mitsrites there fell twelve men. 24 And when Yosĕph returned to Mitsrayim he ordered Tsepho and his men to be further bound, and they bound them in irons and they increased their grief. 25 And all the people of the children of Ĕsaw, and the children of the East, returned in shame, each to his city, for all the mighty men that were with them had fallen in battle. 26 And when the children of Ĕsaw saw that their sovereign had died in battle, they hastened and took a man from the people of the children of the East - his name was Yoḇaḇ son of Zeraḥ - from the land of Botsrah, and they appointed him to reign over them instead of Bela their sovereign. 27 And Yoḇaḇ sat on the throne of Bela as sovereign in his place, and Yoḇaḇ reigned in Eḏom over all the children of Ĕsaw ten years. And the children of Ĕsaw no longer went to fight against the sons of Ya’aqoḇ from then onward, for the sons of Ĕsaw knew the might of the sons of Ya’aqoḇ, and they were greatly afraid of them. 28 But from then onward the children of Ĕsaw hated the sons of Ya’aqoḇ, and the hatred and enmity were very strong between them all the days, to this day. 29 And it came to be after this, at the end of ten years, Yoḇaḇ, son of Zeraḥ, from Botsrah, died, and the children of Ĕsaw took a man whose name was Ḥusham, from the land of Tĕman, and they made him sovereign over them instead of Yoḇaḇ. And Ḥusham reigned in Eḏom over all the children of Ĕsaw for twenty years. 30 And Yosĕph, sovereign of Mitsrayim, and his brothers, and all the children of Yisra’ĕl dwelt safely in Mitsrayim in those days, together with all the children of Yosĕph and his brothers, having no hindrance or evil accident. And the land of Mitsrayim was at that time at rest from battle in the days of Yosĕph and his brothers.