58 PHARAOH DIES AND YOSEPH BECOMES RULER
Pharaoh dies and the whole Government of Egypt devolves upon Yoseph, Pharaoh the Younger being but a nominal Ruler. The Children of Esau again come Against the Yisraelites, and are again smitten.
1 And it came to pass in the thirty-second year of the Yisraelites going down to Egypt, that is in the seventy-first year of the life of Yoseph, in that year died Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Magron his son reigned in his stead.
2 And Pharaoh commanded Yoseph before his death to be a father to his son, Magron, and that Magron should be under the care of Yoseph and under his counsel.
3 And all Egypt consented to this thing that Yoseph should be king over them, for all the Egyptians loved Yoseph as of heretofore, only Magron the son of Pharaoh sat upon, his father's throne, and he became king in those days in his father's stead.
4 Magron was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and forty years he reigned in Egypt, and all Egypt called his name Pharaoh after the name of his father, as it was their custom to do in Egypt to every king that reigned over them.
5 And it came to pass when Pharaoh reigned in his father's stead, he placed the laws of Egypt and all the affairs of government in the hand of Yoseph, as his father had commanded him.
6 And Yoseph became king over Egypt, for he superintended over all Egypt, and all Egypt was under his care and under his counsel, for all Egypt inclined to Yoseph 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 government of Egypt devolved in those days upon Yoseph, after the death of Pharaoh, he being the regulator, doing as he liked throughout the land without any one interfering.
8 And all Egypt was under the care of Yoseph, and Yoseph made war with all his surrounding enemies, and he subdued them; also all the land and all the Philistines, unto the borders of Canaan, did Yoseph subdue, and they were all under his power and they gave a yearly tax unto Yoseph.
9 And Pharaoh king of Egypt sat upon his throne in his father's stead, but he was under the control and counsel of Yoseph, as he was at first under the control of his father.
10 Neither did he reign but in the land of Egypt only, under the counsel of Yoseph, but Yoseph reigned over the whole country at that time, from Egypt unto the great river Perath.
11 And Yoseph was successful in all his ways, and YAHWEH was with him, and YAHWEH gave Yoseph additional wisdom, and honor, and splendor, and love toward him in the hearts of the Egyptians and throughout the land, and Yoseph reigned over the whole country forty years.
12 And all the countries of the Philistines and Canaan and Zidon, and on the other side of Jordan, brought presents unto Yoseph all his days, and the whole country was in the hand of Yoseph, and they brought unto him a yearly tribute as it was regulated, for Yoseph had fought against all his surrounding enemies and subdued them, and the whole country was in the hand of Yoseph, and Yoseph sat securely upon his throne in Egypt.
13 And also all his brethren the sons of Yacob dwelt securely in the land, all the days of Yoseph, and they were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly in the land, and they served YAHWEH all their days, as their father Yacob had commanded them.
14 And it came to pass at the end of many days and years, when the children of Esau were dwelling quietly in their land with Bela their king, that the children of Esau were fruitful and multiplied in the land, and they resolved to go and fight with the sons of Yacob and all Egypt, and to deliver their brother Zepho, the son of Eliphaz, and his men, for they were yet in those days slaves to Yoseph.
15 And the children of Esau sent unto all the children of the east, and they made peace with them, and all the children of the east came unto them to go with the children of Esau to Egypt to battle.
16 And there came also unto them of the people of Angeas, king of Dinhabah, and they also sent unto the children of Ishmael and they also came unto them.
17 And all this people assembled and came unto Seir to assist the children of Esau in their battle, and this camp was very large and heavy with people, numerous as the sand of the sea, about eight hundred thousand men, infantry and cavalry, and all these troops went down to Egypt to fight with the sons of Yacob, and they encamped by Rameses.
18 And Yoseph went forth with his brethren with the mighty men of Egypt, about six hundred men, and they fought with them in the land of Rameses; and the sons of Yacob at that time again fought with the children of Esau, in the fiftieth year of the sons of Yacob going down to Egypt, that is the thirtieth year of the reign of Bela over the children of Esau in Seir.
19 And YAHWEH gave all the mighty men of Esau and the children of the east into the hand of Yoseph and his brethren, and the people of the children of Esau and the children of the east were smitten before Yoseph.
20 And of the people of Esau and the children of the east that were slain, there fell before the sons of Yacob about two hundred thousand men, and their king Bela the son of Beor fell with them in the battle, and when the children of Esau saw that their king had fallen in battle and was dead, their hands became weak in the combat.
21 And Yoseph and his brethren and all Egypt were still smiting the people of the house of Esau, and all Esau's people were afraid of the sons of Yacob and fled from before them.
22 And Yoseph and his brethren and all Egypt pursued them a day's journey, and they slew yet from them about three hundred men, continuing to smite them in the road; and they afterward turned back from them.
23 And Yoseph and all his brethren returned to Egypt, not one man was missing from them, but of the Egyptians there fell twelve men.
24 And when Yoseph returned to Egypt he ordered Zepho and his men to be additionally bound, and they bound them in irons and they increased their grief.
25 And all the people of the children of Esau, and the children of the east, returned in shame each unto his city, for all the mighty men that were with them had fallen in battle.
26 And when the children of Esau saw that their king had died in battle they hastened and took a man from the people of the children of the east; his name was Jobab the son of Zarach, from the land of Botzrah, and they caused him to reign over them instead of Bela their king.
27 And Jobab sat upon the throne of Bela as king in his stead, and Jobab reigned in Edom over all the children of Esau ten years, and the children of Esau went no more to fight with the sons of Yacob from that day forward, for the sons of Esau knew the valor of the sons of Yacob, and they were greatly afraid of them.
28 But from that day forward the children of Esau hated the sons of Yacob, and the hatred and enmity were very strong between them all the days, unto this day.
29 And it came to pass after this, at the end of ten years, Jobab, the son of Zarach, from Botzrah, died, and the children of Esau took a man whose name was Chusham, from the land of Teman, and they made him king over them instead of Jobab, and Chusham reigned in Edom over all the children of Esau for twenty years.
30 And Yoseph, king of Egypt, and his brethren, and all the children of Yisrael dwelt securely in Egypt in those days, together with all the children of Yoseph and his brethren, having no hindrance or evil accident and the land of Egypt was at that time at rest from war in the days of Yoseph and his brethren.