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having received the character of the nation through circumcision. So it is from Adam until Abraham 2745 years. And Abraham was 100 years old when he begot Isaac, and 59 Isaac begot Jacob who is called Israel. The Jews were named after Judah, the fourth son of Jacob; for he had twelve sons. The tribe of Judah prevailed over the Jews and governed; from whence they also got the name. In these times, from the tribe of Japheth, a certain man named Hesiod appeared; who invented the Greek letters, and having arranged the letters, he first set them forth for the Greeks. And in the times of Abraham, Endelechos, from the tribe of Shem, son of Noah, reigned over the Assyrians, reigning as their first king after the race of Perseus had failed. and the kingdom came again to the Assyrians. And of the Egyptians, the first king to reign from the tribe of Ham, son of Noah, was Pharaoh, who is also called Naracho. The ancient kingdoms of the Egyptians before this man, therefore, the most wise Manetho set forth, as has been said before. But the later kingdoms of the Egyptians, I mean from Naracho and downwards, the most wise chronicler Theophilus therefore wrote down. In the times of Abraham, Naracho from the tribe of Ham reigned over the Egyptians. And Potiphar, the chief cook of the same king Pharaoh, bought from the Saracens Joseph, the son of Jacob; whom his brothers sold to the Saracens, being jealous of him, as he was beloved by his own 60 father; and Joseph was handsome in appearance. This Joseph interpreted the vision to king Pharaoh, which he saw concerning the famine that was about to come upon Egypt and upon every country for 7 years. And the king, marveling at the wisdom of Joseph, freed him, and gave him great honor and the daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis, which is in Egypt, as a wife, commanding him to administer all of Egypt for 7 years and to have authority to act as he wished. This Joseph built granaries, and stored up grain in them for the seven years, and he supplied everywhere by himself both the purchasing and the distribution of the sale, doing as he himself wished. And when the famine came upon all the land, his brothers came from the land of Canaan to Egypt to buy grain. And Joseph, recognizing them, ordered them to be detained, and he made bold to them that he was their brother, and he compelled them to depart and bring to him his younger brother Benjamin and his father Jacob and all his kindred. And his brothers, having departed, brought to Joseph their father and their brother Benjamin and all their kindred, 75 names of males and females. And Joseph kept them there, and they dwelt in Egypt for many years; and an infinite multitude of Hebrews came from them, dwelling in Egypt until Moses who was commanded by God to lead out 61 the people of the Hebrews from the land of Egypt, as all these things are accurately recorded in the Hebrew writings. And in the times of the aforementioned kings, there appeared in the country of Caria a giant-born philosopher from the tribe of Japheth, named Endymion; who, speaking mystic prayers to the moon, asked her to learn from her the divine name in a vision. And while he was praying he fell into a sleep and heard the divine name in a vision; and he no longer arose, but his remains are in Caria until now, being thus a dead body that trembles; and each year they open his coffin in that country, and they see his remains trembling, though dead, as they say. These things the most wise Auleas wrote; concerning whom, he says, the historians record that the moon loves Endymion. It is therefore from Abraham until the exodus of the sons of Israel with

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χαρακτῆρα τοῦ ἔθνους διὰ περιτομῆς εἰληφότες. ἐστὶν οὖν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἔτη σψμεʹ. Ὁ δὲ Ἀβραὰμ ἦν ἐτῶν ρʹ, ὅτε ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἰσαάκ, καὶ 59 Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἰακὼβ τὸν λεγόμενον Ἰσραήλ. ἐκλήθησαν δὲ οἱ Ἰοδαῖοι ἀπὸ Ἰούδα τοῦ τετάρτου υἱοῦ τοῦ Ἰακώβ· ἔσχε γὰρ υἱοὺς δώδεκα. ἡ δὲ τοῦ Ἰούδα φυλὴ ἐκράτει τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ διῴκει· ὅθεν καὶ τὸ ὄνομα ἔσχον. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τούτοις ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Ἰάφεθ ἀνεφαίνετό τις ὀνόματι Ἡσίοδος· ὅστις ἐξεῦρε τὰ Ἑλλήνων γράμματα, καὶ συντάξας γράμματα ἐξέθετο τοῖς Ἕλλησι πρῶτος. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀσσυρίων ὁ ἐκ φυλῆς τοῦ Σήμ, υἱοῦ Νῶε, Ἐνδελεχός, βασιλεύσας αὐτῶν πρῶτος μετὰ τὸ ἐκλεῖψαι τὸ γένος τοῦ Περσέως. καὶ ἦλθε πάλιν τὸ βασίλειον εἰς τοὺς Ἀσσυρίους. Αἰγυπτίων δὲ ἐβασίλευσε πρῶτος βασιλεὺς τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Χάμ, υἱοῦ Νῶε, Φαραώ, ὁ καὶ Ναραχὼ καλούμενος. τὰ οὖν πρὸ τούτου παλαιὰ βασίλεια Αἰγυπτίων ἐξέθετο Μανεθὼν ὁ σοφώτατος, ὡς προείρηται. τὰ δὲ μεταγενέστερα βασίλεια Αἰγυπτίων, λέγω δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ναραχὼ καὶ κάτω, συνεγράψατο οὖν ταῦτα Θεόφιλος ὁ σοφώτατος χρονογράφος. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ ἐβασίλευσεν Αἰγυπτίων ὁ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Χὰμ Ναραχώ. ἠγόρασε δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν Πετεφρῆς, ὁ ἀρχιμάγειρος τοῦ αὐτοῦ Φαραὼ βασιλέως, τὸν Ἰωσήφ, υἱὸν τοῦ Ἰακώβ· ὅντινα ἐπώλησαν οἱ αὐτοῦ ἀδελφοὶ τοῖς Σαρακηνοῖς, διαφθονούμενοι αὐτῷ, ὡς φιλούμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ ἰδίου 60 πατρός· ἦν δὲ ὁ Ἰωσὴφ ὡραῖος τῇ θέᾳ. ὅστις Ἰωσὴφ ἡρμήνευσε τὸ ὅραμα τῷ βασιλεῖ Φαραώ, ὅπερ εἶδεν ἕνεκεν τοῦ μέλλοντος γίνεσθαι λιμοῦ εἰς τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ εἰς πᾶσαν χώραν ἐπὶ ἔτη ζʹ. καὶ θαυμάσας ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ φρόνησιν, ἠλευθέρωσεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ ἀξίαν μεγάλην καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα τοῦ ἀρχιερέως Ἡλιουπόλεως τῆς οὔσης ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ εἰς γυναῖκα, κελεύσας αὐτὸν διοικεῖν τὴν Αἴγυπτον πᾶσαν ἐπὶ ζʹ ἔτη καὶ ἔχειν ἐξουσίαν ὡς βούλεται πράττειν. ὅστις Ἰωσὴφ κτίζει ὡρεῖα, καὶ ἀποτίθεται σῖτον ἐν αὐτοῖς τῶν ἑπτὰ ἐνιαυτῶν, καὶ ἐχορήγησε πανταχοῦ δι' ἑαυτοῦ τήν τε ἀγορασίαν καὶ τὴν ἔξοδον τῆς πράσεως, ποιήσας ὡς ἠβουλήθη αὐτός. καὶ τῆς λιμοῦ γενομένης εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, ἦλθον οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς Χαναὰν εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀγοράσαι σῖτον. καὶ ἐπιγνοὺς αὐτοὺς Ἰωσὴφ ἐκέλευσε κρατηθῆναι αὐτούς, καὶ ἐθάῤῥησεν αὐτοῖς ὅτι ἀδελφὸς αὐτῶν ὑπάρχει, καὶ ἠνάγκασεν αὐτοὺς ἀπελθεῖν καὶ ἀγαγεῖν πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μικρότερον τὸν Βενιαμὶν καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τὴν συγγένειαν αὐτοῦ πᾶσαν. οἱ δὲ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπελθόντες ἤνεγκαν πρὸς τὸν Ἰωσὴφ τὸν πατέρα αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτῶν τὸν Βενιαμὶν καὶ τὴν συγγένειαν αὐτῶν πᾶσαν, ὀνόματα οεʹ ἀῤῥενικῶν τε καὶ θηλυκῶν. καὶ ἐκράτησεν αὐτοὺς Ἰωσὴφ ἐκεῖ, καὶ ᾤκησαν τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐπὶ ἔτη πολλά· καὶ ἐγένετο πλῆθος ἄπειρον ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν Ἑβραίων, οἰκοῦντα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἕως Μωσέως τοῦ κελευσθέντος ὑπὸ θεοῦ ἐκβάλαι 61 τὸν λαὸν τῶν Ἑβραίων ἐκ τῆς γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καθὼς ταῦτα πάντα ἐντέτακται ἀκριβῶς ἐν τοῖς Ἑβραϊκοῖς συγγράμμασιν. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις τῶν βασιλέων τῶν προγεγραμμένων ἀνεφάνη τις ἐν τῇ Καρίᾳ χώρᾳ γιγαντογενὴς φιλόσοφος ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Ἰάφεθ, ὀνόματι Ἐνδυμίων· ὅστις μυστικὰς εὐχὰς λέγων εἰς σελήνην ᾔτει αὐτὴν μαθεῖν παρ' αὐτῆς τὸ θεϊκὸν ὄνομα ἐν ὁράματι. καὶ ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν εὔχεσθαι ἦλθεν εἰς ὕπνον καὶ ἤκουσε τὸ θεϊκὸν ὄνομα ἐν ὁράματι· καὶ οὐκέτι ἀνέστη, ἀλλ' ἐστὶ τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ ἕως τῆς νῦν εἰς τὴν Καρίαν, οὕτως ὄντα νεκρὸν δονούμενον· καὶ καθ' ἕκαστον ἔτος ἀνοίγουσι τὴν αὐτοῦ σορὸν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ ὁρῶσι τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ δονούμενον νεκρόν, ὡς λέγουσιν. ἅτινα συνεγράψατο Αὐλέας ὁ σοφώτατος· περὶ οὗ, φησί, τὴν σελήνην φιλεῖν τὸν Ἐνδυμίωνα ἱστοριογραφοῦσιν. Ἔστιν οὖν ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ ἕως τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ