⁴⁰ these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshe′a, whom Shalmane′ser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land. ⁴¹ But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, ⁴² that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land. ⁴³ And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphra′tes river. ⁴⁴ For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over. ⁴⁵ Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth.^[a]

⁴⁶ “Then they dwelt there until the last times; and now, when they are about to come again, ⁴⁷ the Most High will stop^[b] the channels of the river again, so that they may be able to pass over. Therefore you saw the multitude gathered together in peace.

¹⁰ Behold, my people is led like a flock to the slaughter; I will not allow them to live any longer in the land of Egypt, ¹¹ but I will bring them out with a mighty hand and with an uplifted arm, and will smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all its land.”

¹² Let Egypt mourn, and its foundations, for the plague of chastisement and punishment that the Lord will bring upon it.