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Thus ends the record of Yannes and Yambres as recoverable from the ancient witness lattice.
2
They began as celebrated wise ishim of Mitsrayim, confident that hidden knowledge could answer every sign.
3
They opposed Mosheh and Aharon before Pharaoh and discovered that imitation is not sovereignty.
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Yannes was warned before the plagues, afflicted during the judgments, and finally brought into death.
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From the place of the dead he became a witness against the very path he had practiced.
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Yambres, spared from Pharaoh's destruction at the sea, received the final warning while still among the living.
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The lesson preserved by the work is not that all hidden knowledge is equal and one magician merely defeated another.
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It is that the living Elohim judges rulers, magicians, idols, violence, pride, and every human attempt to place created power above the One who gives breath.