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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 Esav 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 Esav in the land of Edom for forty years.
4
And when Par’oh king of Mitsrayim saw that the counsel which Bil’am had advised respecting the children of Yis’rael did not succeed, but that still they were fruitful, multiplied and increased throughout the land of Mitsrayim,
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Then Par’oh commanded in those days that a proclamation should be issued throughout Mitsrayim to the children of Yis’rael, saying, No man shall diminish any thing of his daily labor.
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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 Mitsrayim strengthened upon the children of Yis’rael in those days, and behold if one brick was deficient in any man's daily labor, the Mitsriym 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 Mitsrayim did so to all the children of Yis’rael day by day, all the days for a long period.
9
But the tribe of Levi did not at that time work with the Yis’ra’eliym their brethren, from the beginning, for the children of Levi knew the cunning of the Mitsriym which they exercised at first toward the Yis’ra’eliym.