⁵ And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,

⁶ She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.

⁷ And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?

⁸ She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.

⁹ And Pharao's daughter said to her. Take this child and nurse him for me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and nursed the child: and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.

¹⁰ And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because I took him out of the water.

¹³ Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their eldest brother,

¹⁴ There came a messenger to Job, and said: The oxen were ploughing, and the asses feeding beside them,

¹⁵ And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹⁶ And while he was yet speaking, another came, and said: The fire of God fell from heaven, and striking the sheep and the servants, hath consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹⁷ And while he also was yet speaking, there came another, and said: The Chaldeans made three troops, and have fallen upon the camels, and taken them, moreover they have slain the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

¹⁸ He was yet speaking, and behold another came in, and said: Thy sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their elder brother:

¹⁹ A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to fell thee.

²⁰ Then Job rose up, and rent his garments, and having shaven his head fell down upon the ground and worshipped,

²¹ And said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord.

²² In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.