Chapter XXV

¹And Pharaoh's son went to his father's room to kill him; but his father's guards would not allow him ¹ B adds ‘to kill him or’. to go in to him. ²And Pharaoh's son said to them, I want to see ² Lit. ‘I will see’. my father because I am going off to gather the grapes from my newly planted vine. ³ D ‘vineyard’. ³And the guards said to him, Your father is in pain, and he has been awake all night; but he is resting now; and he said to us, Do not let anyone in to me, not even my eldest son. ⁴And he went away in anger; and he took fifty mounted archers, and he went in front of them as Dan and Gad had told him to. ⁵And Naphtali and Asher ⁴ and Asher: B om. said to Dan and Gad, Why must you plot ⁵ Lit. ‘work evil’. again against our father Israel and against our brother Joseph? For God looks after him as if he were the apple of his eye. ⁶Did you not once sell Joseph as a slave, and to-day he is king of the whole earth, ⁶ BGA ‘land of Egypt’. and its saviour, ⁷ and its saviour: B om. and gives us corn? ⁷And now, if you make plots against him again, he will call upon the God of Israel, ⁸ the God of Israel = BD: A ‘the Most High’; Slav. ‘heaven’ (cp. EG Syr. ‘he will go up into heaven’). and he will send fire from heaven, ⁹ from heaven: Slav. om. and it will burn you up, and the angels of God will fight against you. ¹⁰ and the angels … you: Slav. om. ⁸And their elder brothers Dan and Gad were angry with them, saying, Are we then to die like women? God forbid! And they went out to encounter Joseph and Aseneth.