The Jewish Antiquities by Josephus (37-c.100 CE) and the Book of Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo are the two major samples of the Rewritten Bible surviving, the first in Greek and the second in Latin. Their style of exegesis recalls the Genesis Apocryphon. In Jewish Antiquities, the decree ordering the destruction of the Jewish boys born in Egypt is explained as follows.

 One of the sacred scribes-persons with considerable skill in accurately predicting the future-announced to the king that there would be born to the Israelites at that time one who would abase the sovereignty of the Egyptians and exalt the Israelites, were he reared to manhood, and would surpass all men in virtue and win everlasting renown. Alarmed thereat, the king, on this sage's advice, ordered that every male child born to the Israelites should be destroyed by being cast into the river (Ant. 2:205).

Likewise Pseudo-Philo supplements the Genesis account of the sacrifice of Isaac by asserting that Isaac not only did not resist his father, but willingly and gladly agreed to become a sacrificial victim.

Don't you remember what happened in the days of our fathers, when the father was to sacrifice his son and the latter did not object but joyfully consented (Bibl. Ant. 40:2).