18. until another sovereign arose who did not know Yosĕph.
19. “Having dealt treacherously with our race, this one mistreated our fathers, making them expose their babies, so that they should not live.
20. “At that time Mosheh was born, and he was well-pleasing to Elohim. And he was reared three months in the house of his father.
21. “But when he was exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and reared him as her own son.
22. “And Mosheh was instructed in all the wisdom of the Mitsrites, and was mighty in words and works.
23. “And when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl.
24. “And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended and revenged him who was oppressed, smiting the Mitsrite.
25. “And he thought that his brothers would have understood that Elohim would give deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.
26. “And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and urged them to peace, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers, why do you wrong one another?’
27. “But he who was wronging his neighbour pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?
28. ‘Do you wish to kill me as you killed the Mitsrite yesterday?’
29. “And at this saying, Mosheh fled and became a sojourner in the land of Miḏyan, where he fathered two sons.