(34) And he returned in peace, and made peace with them, and they became his servants, until the day thathe and his sons went down into 2149 a.m. Egypt.

(3) .... And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon; and Jechonias begat....

(42) And Judah came near and said : " Send him with me, and if I do not bring him back to thee, let me bear the blame before thee all the days of my life." 20. And he sent him with them in the second year of this 2172 a.m. week on the first day of the month, and they came to the land of Egypt with all those who went, and (they had) presents in their hands, stacte and almonds and terebinth nuts and pure honey.

(29) And their habitation was from the land of the children of Amnion to Mount Hermon, and the seats of their kingdom were Knrnaim and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, and Misur, and Beon. ii. And the Lord destroyed them because of the evil of their deeds ; for they were very malignant, and the Amorites dwelt in their stead, wicked and sinful, and there is no people to-day which hath wrought to the full all their sins, and they have no longer length of life on the earth.

(10) Buthe did nothearken unto them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath • to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day.

(11) And in the thirty-fifth jubilee, in the third week, in the first year thereof, Reu took to himself a wife, and her name was 'ra, the^jjajighter^oIJillt* the son of K£s£d, and she" bare tiim a son, and he 1687 a.m. called his name S&rdli, in the seventh year of this week in this jubilee. 2.* And the sons of Noah began I to war on__garp other, t^Takp raptive and to slay \ each ofherTand to *h?fl *hf> blood ^ ™*n nn the earth. ancTto eat Slood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals (began) to exalt them- selves above the nation,* and to found the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all (began) to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture 'cities, and to sell male and female slaves.

(38) And Reuben and Issachar and Zebulon went forth on the north side of the tower, and fifty men with them, and they slew the fighting men of the Philistines.

(45) And Israel lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and all the days which he lived were three jubilees, one hundred and forty-seven years, and he died in the fourth year of the fifth week of the forty-fifth jubilee. 2188 a.m.

(41) And this Er, the first-born of 2 t. e. Zaphenath-paneah (Gen. xli. ). Judah, was wicked, and the Lord slew him.

(23) Also when the Heathens should hear, that God would send this People, which he had brought out of Egypt with great Wonders [or Miracles,] among them to destroy them, that they should turn to God and depart from Covetousness, and enter into The Stars order their Government, Brotherly Love, therefore he gave them a long Time of Respite; as also to Israel (whom he fed from Heaven) for an Example, that one People should be an Example to the other, that there is and only evil, and seeing they did live in the Father' fierce Anger, therefore the Anger and Severity of God lusted also to devour them, because they continually kindled P it.

(30) And he reproached them because they had put the city to the sword ; l for he feared those who dwelt in the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

(13) And he removed from thence and went towards the south, and he came to Hebron, and Hebron was built at that time, and he dwelt there two years, and he went (thence) into the land of the south, to Bealoth, and there was a famine in the land.

(46) And the king of Egypt went forth to war with the king of 2263 a.m. Canaan in the forty-seventh jubilee, in the second week in the second year, and the children of Israel brought forth all the bones of the children of Jacob save the bones of Joseph, and they buried them in the field in the double cave in the mountain."""

(14) And on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying : " To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kad- monites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakor- ites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

(23) Critias: and Hephaestus, and after that ours. And the duration of our civilization as set down in our sacred writings is 8000 years. Of the citizens, then, who lived 9000 years ago, I will declare to you briefly certain of their laws and the noblest of the deeds they performed:

(1) But here, while he frequented all the Egyptian temples with the greatest diligence and with accurate investigation, he was both admired and loved by the priests and prophets with whom he associated. And having learnt with the greatest solicitude every particular, he did not neglect to hear of any transaction that was celebrated in his own time, or of any man famous for his wisdom, or any mystery in whatever manner it might be performed; nor did he omit to visit any place in which he thought something more excellent might be found. On this account he went to all the priests, by whom he was furnished with the wisdom which each possessed. He spent therefore two and twenty years in Egypt, in the adyta of temples, astronomizing and geometrizing, and was initiated, not in a superficial or casual manner, in all the mysteries of the Gods, till at length being taken captive by the soldiers of Cambyses, he was brought to Babylon.

Here he gladly associated with the Magi, was instructed by them in their venerable knowledge, and learnt from them the most perfect worship of the Gods. Through their assistance likewise, he arrived at the summit of arithmetic, music, and other disciplines; and after associating with them twelve years, he returned to Samos about the fifty-sixth year of his age.

(650) 1833 [To say]: ------- it is Osiris N., son of [Nut]. 1833 She caused him to appear as king of Upper and Lower Egypt in all his dignity. 1833 [She caused him to appear as] Anubis, First of the Westerners, as Osiris son of Geb. 1833 --------- gods, as `nd.ti, chief of the eastern nomes. 1834 The earth [produces] N.; he shall be chief of the gods who are in heaven, 1834 as Geb, chief of the Ennead. 1835 His mother, heaven, bears him, living, each day, beloved of R`, 1835 with whom he dawns in the east, with whom he sets in the west. 1835 His mother Nut is not void of him, daily. 1836 He equips N. with life; 1836 he makes his heart rejoice; he makes his heart sweet. 1837 He settles for him the South; he settles for him the land of the North; 1837 he destroys for him the fortresses of Asia; 1837 he quells for him all the people, rebels, under his fingers.

(37) Then he spake to his own and to his servants that they should attack him and all his companions. The War between Jacob and Esau at the Tower of Hebron. The Death of Esau and Over- throw of his Forces (xxxviii. -).

(14) The city of Babylon was built, and E-sagil was finished

(7) And tyoah awoke from his sleep and knew all that his younger son had done unto him, and he cursed his son and said : " Cursed be Canaan; an enslaved servant shall he be unto his brethren." s