Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[471]. Midrash, fol. 52; Yaschar, p. 1263.

[472]. According to another version, it was Jethro who advised that the child should be proved with the basins of rubies and coals. (Rabboth, fol. 118 b; Yaschar, pp. 1263, 1264.)

[473]. Exod. iv. 10.

[474]. Beer, pp. 26-42. Abulfaraj says that Jannes and Jambres were the tutors of Moses in his youth (Hist. Dynast., p. 17).

[475]. Yaschar, p. 1265.

[476]. Yaschar, p. 1265.

[477]. Yaschar, p. 1263.

[478]. Parascha of R. Solomon Jaschi, on Exod. ii. 12; also Targums of Palestine and Jerusalem, i. p. 447; Yaschar, pp. 1265, 1266.

[479]. Pirke R. Eliezer, c. 40; Rabboth, fol. 119a; Yaschar, p. 1266.

[480]. This illustrates the passage 2 Kings ix. 13.