In the one hundred and eightieth year after the descent of Israel to Egypt [this is year 2418], the mighty men of the children of Efrayim son of Yosef went out - thirty thousand foot soldiers - from Egypt, for they said, "The end that HaShem has decreed upon the children of Israel has arrived, as He spoke to Avraham." And each man placed his sword and all his weapons of war upon him. And they trusted in their might and did not take provisions for the journey, only silver and gold, for they said to buy their sustenance from the Philistines at a price, and if not, they would take it by force, for one shall chase a thousand and two shall put ten thousand to flight.

And they came to Gat and found shepherds of the cattle of Gat. And they said to the shepherds, "Give us some of the sheep at a price to eat, for we are hungry, for we have not eaten bread today." And the shepherds said, "Our sheep - are they ours to give you at a price?" And the children of Efrayim came to take by force. And the shepherds of Gat cried out, and they were heard from afar. And all the men of Gat came with all their weapons of war, and many struck many on that day.

And it came to pass on the second day that the children of Gat sent to the cities of the Philistines, "Come up and help us, and let us strike the children of Efrayim who have come to take our cattle." And all the cities of the Philistines came out - about forty thousand men. And the children of Efrayim were weary of soul from hunger and thirst, for they had not eaten bread for three days. And they struck all the children of Efrayim - they did not leave a survivor or refugee, only ten men who fled, for they had rebelled against the word of HaShem to go out before the time.

And from the Philistines about twenty-five thousand men fell, and they buried them in their cities. And the corpses of the children of Efrayim remained strewn in the valley of Gat, and they were not given burial, and the valley became full of bones. And the ten men who escaped came to Egypt and told the children of Israel all that had happened to them. And Efrayim their father mourned for them many days.

And he came to his wife, and she bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, for there was evil in his house. [Behold, according to this, the children of Efrayim went out thirty years before the time, for Israel went out in year 2448. And the reason, as it appears in Shabbat 12:72, was that because of the weight of two selas of fine wool that Yaakov gave to Yosef more than his brothers, the matter rolled and our fathers went down to Egypt.

And the Tosafot asked: Even without this the decree was written (Bereishit 17) "and they shall serve them and they shall afflict them," so surely the affliction was decreed upon them anyway. Rather, through this, thirty years were added before Yitzchak was born, etc. This means that the Covenant Between the Parts was in year 2018 when Avraham was seventy years old, and Yitzchak was born in year 2048 when Avraham was one hundred years old.

So the thirty extra years were because of the weight of two selas that his brothers envied him. And the children of Efrayim thought that from Yosef, who was a reason for the slavery, thirty years should be deducted, so they went out thirty years early. And the truth is that when one sins by the cause, one also sins by the effect, therefore they were killed. And I have seen in Chochmat Manoach regarding what the Tosafot said that Yitzchak was born thirty years later, and this caused the children of Efrayim to err in the count and go out before the time, etc.

Afterwards I found in the Zohar HaRakia, Parshat Shemot, that the thirty years that the children of Efrayim went out before the time was because thirty years were decreed due to the sin of selling Yosef, as mentioned there - and that is correct. And in Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer chapter 48, all those years that Israel dwelt in Egypt they dwelt securely and peacefully and tranquilly until Yigvon (and in Midrash Parshat BeShalach section 227 Goan, and Midrash HaDa"t 2:7 section 1077 Buon) from the children of Efrayim came and said it was revealed to him by the Holy One, Blessed be He, to take the children of Israel out of Egypt.

The children of Efrayim in their pride of heart, being of the seed of royalty and mighty warriors, took their sons and their wives and went out of Egypt. And the Egyptians stood up and killed them, as mentioned. From this it appears that they went out before the beginning of the slavery. And it is known that from the death of Levi the slavery began, one hundred and sixteen years before they went out.

And the severity of the slavery was from when Miriam was born, eighty-seven years before they went out. So it goes against the view of Sefer HaYashar that they went out only thirty years before the time. And in the Mechilta 70, BeShalach HaDa"t 2:7: "And the children of Efrayim, his son was Shutelach, his son Zevad, his son" - the children of Efrayim who went out were two hundred thousand and were killed by the men of Gat because they did not keep the covenant of God and transgressed the end and transgressed the oath, etc.

In this too it contradicts Sefer HaYashar which said they went out only thirty thousand. And in Targum Yonatan on BeShalach it is written that two hundred thousand were killed who went out thirty years before our time (he holds the view of Sefer HaYashar and the view of the Mechilta). And it concludes that those dead ones were whom Yechezkel revived (Nun, he was reincarnated in Gideon who is from Efrayim, see year 2880).] And Moshe was still king in the land of Cush, and he guided his kingdom in righteousness and succeeded.

And all the inhabitants of Cush feared him.