And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hevron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hevron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
Or hath Elohim assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YY your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of YY thy Elohim: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
For so it was, that the children of Yisrael had sinned against YY their Elohim, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other elohim,