And one of them came to him, walking bashfully.  Said she, “My father calleth thee, that he may pay thee wages for thy watering for us.”  And when he came to him and had told him his story, “Fear not,” said he, “thou hast escaped from an unjust people.”

One of them said, “O my father, hire him:  for the best thou canst hire is the strong, the trusty.”

He said, “Truly to one of these my two daughters I desire to marry thee, if for eight years thou wilt be my hired servant:10 and if thou fulfil ten, it shall be of thine own accord, for I wish not to deal hardly with thee.  Thou wilt find me, if God will, one of the upright.”

He said, “Be it so between me and thee:  Whichever of the two terms I fulfil, there will be no injustice to me.  And God is witness of what we say.”

And when Moses had fulfilled the term, and was journeying with his family, he perceived a fire on the mountain side.  He said to his family, “Wait ye, for I perceive a fire.  Haply I may bring you tidings from it, or a brand from the fire to warm you.”

And when he came up to it, a Voice cried to him11 out of the bush from the right side of the valley in the sacred hollow, “O Moses, I truly am God, the Lord of the Worlds: 

Throw down now thy rod.”  And when he saw it move as though it were a serpent, he retreated and fled and returned not.  “O Moses,” cried the Voice, “draw near and fear not, for thou art in safety.

Put thy hand into thy bosom; it shall come forth white, but unharmed:  and draw back thy hand12 to thee without fear.  These shall be two signs from thy Lord to Pharaoh and his nobles; for they are a perverse people.”

He said, “O my Lord! truly I have slain one of them, therefore fear I lest they slay me.

My brother Aaron is clearer of speech than I. Send him, therefore, with me as a help, and to make good my cause, for I fear lest they treat me as an impostor.”

He said, “We will strengthen thine arm with thy brother, and we will give power unto you both, and they shall not equal you in our signs.  Ye twain and they who shall follow you, shall gain the day.”

And when Moses came to him with our demonstrative signs they said, “This is nought but magical device.  We never heard the like among our sires of old.”

And Moses said, “My Lord best knoweth on whom He hath bestowed His guidance, and whose shall be the recompense of the abode of Paradise.  Verily, the wicked shall not prosper.”

And Pharaoh said, “O ye nobles, ye have no other God that I know of but myself.  Burn me then, Haman, bricks of clay,13 and build me a tower that I may mount up to the God of Moses, for in sooth, I deem him a liar.”

And he and his hosts behaved themselves proudly and unjustly on the earth, and thought that they should never be brought back to us.

But we seized on him and his hosts and cast them into the sea:  Behold, then, the end of the wrongful doers: