Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[466] Exod. xv. 1.

[467] The Arabic name for her is Asia; Yaschar, p. 1261.

[468] Targum of Palestine, i. p. 446; Yaschar, p. 1261.

[469] Midrash, fol. 51.

[470] Midrash, fol. 51; Yaschar, p. 1262.

[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.