1 to share married life exchanged joy for wailing, their myrrh-perfumed hair sprinkled with ashes, and were carried away unveiled, all together raising a lament instead of a wedding song, as they were torn by the harsh treatment of foreign nations.
7In bonds and in public view they were violently dragged along as far as the place of embarkation.
8 going out into the country, so that they could neither communicate with the king’s forces nor in any way claim to be inside the circuit of the city.
12And when this had happened, the king, hearing that the Jews’ compatriots from the city frequently went out in secret to lament bitterly the ignoble misfortune of their kindred,
13ordered in his rage that these people be dealt with in precisely the same fashion as the others, not omitting any detail of their punishment.
14 the task was impossible for all the generals in Egypt.
19After he had threatened them severely, charging that they had been bribed to contrive a means of escape, he was clearly convinced about the matter
20when they said and proved that both the papyrus and the reeds they used for writing had already given out.
21But this was an act of the invincible providence of him who was aiding the Jews from heaven.
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