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The new Pharaoh was afraid that the Jews had multiplied greatly,

And in case of war might join Egypt’s enemies.

He ordered newborn Hebrew boys to be slaughtered with malice aforethought,

To enslave the Jewish people with exorbitant labour.

Levi’s daughter, wishing to save her son from certain death,

put him in a tarred basket and left him in the reeds.

Pharaoh’s daughter adopted the child, and he was called Moshe,

He grew and lived in Pharaoh’s palace and was honoured and profitable.

But the blood of the Jews in him, it seems, was aroused,

When he saw his fellow man beaten, he killed the Egyptian torturer,

‘And that he might not be punished by Pharaoh for his murder.

Moshe hurried to the neighbouring country of Midyan.

In Midyan Moshe married Tzipòra, the daughter of the priest of Yitro,

At Mount Sinai, G-d revealed Himself to Moshe in a flame of burning thorns.

And promises to help His Chosen People in the mountain,

Aoron is commanded by G-d to be Moshe’s interpreter.

G-d is merciful to His beloved child,

He didn’t leave Moshe in trouble despite his change of tradition.

He sent Moshe to lead the Jews out of the Egyptian hell…

Did not dissolve to make the people of Israel in a foreign environment.

From the mouth of Moses the statements of the Creator were heard by the Egyptian Pharaoh:

‘Let My son go, that He may serve Me.’

For keeping their names, the Jewish people were forgiven,

The love of liberty for their own and others’ freedom, Israel has kept it ever since.