Joseph and Asenath 26

1And Asenath rose early in the morning and said to Joseph: "I will go to the possession of our inheritance, for that I fear exceedingly because thou art parted from me." And Joseph said to her: "Be of good cheer and fear not, but go thy way, because the Lord is with thee, and he himself shall guard thee from every evil thing as the pupil of an eye. And, for my part, I will go to distribute the corn and will give bread to all the men in the city, that none may perish of famine in the land of Egypt." Then Asenath went her way and Joseph to the distribution of the corn. And, when Asenath came to the place of the brook, lo! Pharaoh's son and the fifty horsemen with him leaped out from their ambush and joined battle with those who were with Asenath, and they cut them down all with the edge of the sword, and slew also the advance-men. And Asenath fled in her chariot. And Benjamin was sitting with her on the chariot on the right side; and Benjamin was a strong lad of about nineteen years, and upon him was ineffable beauty and might as of a lion's whelp, and he was also one who feared God exceedingly. Then Benjamin sprang down from the chariot and took up a round stone from the brook and filled his hand, and cast it against Pharaoh's son and smote him upon his left temple, and wounded him with a great and grievous wound; and he fell from his horse upon the earth, half dead. Then Benjamin sprang up upon the rock and said to Asenath's charioteer: "Give me stones from the brook." And he gave him fifty stones; and Benjamin cast the stones, and slew the fifty men with Pharaoh's son, and the stones went into their temples. Then the sons of Leah, Reuben and Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, ran after Pharaoh's son, and fell on the men that lay in ambush against Asenath, and slew them; and the six men slew two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six men.