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Moses from Egypt, 5 generations, 443 years. And from the flood until the birth of Moses are 1484 years. And from Adam until the birth of Moses are 4036 years. And Moses lived 120 years. And after Moses, Joshua the son of Nun and Phinehas governed Israel. Therefore, from Adam until the death of Moses and Aaron are 4156 years. And in the time of Joshua the son of Nun, from the tribe of Ja 62 pheth, someone named Ogyges, an aboriginal, reigned over the country of Attica for 32 years. And a great flood occurred in his reign, and he perished and all that country and every soul inhabiting that country of Attica alone. And from that time the same country remained deserted and uninhabited for 270 years, as is recorded in the writings of Africanus. And in the days of the exodus of the sons of Israel from Egypt, which was about to happen with Moses, a certain aboriginal named Aides reigned over the country of the Molossians; who married the so-called Melindia; he had from her a comely daughter, whom he called Persephone; and the Molossians in their own language called beautiful women "korai". And Pirithous, a senator of the same king Aides, being younger and wealthy, seemed to love her with passion; and by arrangement with the maiden he wished to abduct her by night. And when her father, king Aides, learned this, he was angered; and planning in secret to take revenge on the same Pirithous, so that he might feign ignorance to all, he shut outside where the maiden was staying the large, wild sheepdog which he had, which they also named Tricerberus because it had the head and body size of three dogs. Therefore, after the death of her mother, with the maiden being unaware of this, and with Pirithous having arrived by night and entered for the abduction of the maiden, the dog rushed and killed him. And the maiden herself, hearing the tu 63 mult, came out, and the dog killed her also; concerning whom, he says, they say that Pluto abducted the maiden; which things the most wise Palaephatus wrote. And in the time of Moses, Erechtheus reigned over the Assyrians, and Petissonios the comedian, Pharaoh, reigned over the Egyptians. He had with him powerful magicians, Jannes and Jambres. And during his reign the race of the Jews multiplied in Egypt from the generation of Jacob, who came to Egypt to his son Joseph, until Moses and his brother Aaron led them. This Moses took an Egyptian wife, the daughter of Jothor, the high priest of the Hellenes, a man honored by Pharaoh the king and the Egyptians. And the same Moses was educated in all the wisdom of Egypt; and the Egyptians feared the Jews as they had become numerous, and they reported to Pharaoh about them, and Pharaoh the king commanded the Jews to perform labors for the Egyptians and to make bricks under compulsion. Therefore, if any of the Egyptians wished to build either a house or a field, he forced them to do labor and make bricks, and all the Jews groaned from their toils. And Moses and his brother Aaron, having heeded the groaning of the sons of Israel, prayed to God; and the Lord God commanded Moses to go in to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Let the people of Israel go to wor 64 ship him. And Moses, taking his own brother Aaron, went in to Petissonios Pharaoh, king of Egypt; for he had confidence, both from his father-in-law Jothor, the priest of the Hellenes, and as the leader of the Jews; and he announced to him the command of God and that the God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them says that you should let his people go to worship him. And Pharaoh, hearing, says to him, If you speak the truth that your God has commanded you to tell me these things, behold, there are Egyptians with me who perform wonders. If you defeat them by asking your

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Μωσέα ἀπὸ Αἰγύπτου γενεαὶ εʹ, ἔτη υμγʹ. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἕως τῆς γενέσεως Μωσέως εἰσὶν ἔτη αυπδʹ. ἀπὸ δὲ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς γεννήσεως Μωσέως εἰσὶν ἔτη δλςʹ. ἔζησε δὲ Μωσῆς ἔτη ρκʹ. καὶ διῴκουν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ Μωσῆν Ἰησοῦςὁ τοῦ Ναυὴ καὶ Φινεές. ἀπὸ οὖν Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς τελευτῆς Μωσέως καὶ Ἀαρὼν εἰσὶν ἔτη δρνςʹ. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς χρόνοις Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναυὴ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Ἰά 62 φεθ ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Ἀττικῆς χώρας τις ὀνόματι Ὠγύγης, αὐτόχθων, ἔτη λβʹ. καὶ γέγονε κατακλυσμὸς μέγας ἐν τῇ αὐτοῦ βασιλείᾳ, καὶ ἀπώλετο αὐτὸς καὶ πᾶσα ἡ χώρα ἐκείνη καὶ πᾶσα ψυχὴ οἰκοῦσα τὴν χώραν ἐκείνην τῆς Ἀττικῆς καὶ μόνης. καὶ ἔμεινεν ἐξ ἐκείνου ἔρημος καὶ ἀοίκητος ἡ αὐτὴ χώρα ἐπὶ ἔτη σοʹ, καθὼς ἐν τοῖς Ἀφρικανοῦ ἐμφέρεται συγγράμμασιν. Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆς ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μελλούσης γίνεσθαι ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ Μωσέως ἐβασίλευσε τῆς τῶν Μολοσσῶν χώρας αὐτόχθων τις ὀνόματι Ἀΐδης· ὃς ἐγάμησε τὴν λεγομένην Μελινδίαν· ἔσχεν ἐξ αὐτῆς θυγατέρα εὐπρεπῆ, ἣν ἐκάλεσε Περσεφόνην· τὰς δὲ εὐμόρφους γυναῖκας οἱ Μολοσσαῖοι τῇ ἰδίᾳ γλώσσῃ κόρας ἐκάλουν. ταύτην δὲ ἔδοξε φιλεῖν ἔρωτι ὁ Περίθους, συγκλητικὸς τοῦ αὐτοῦ Ἀΐδου βασιλέως, νεώτερος ὢν καὶ εὔπορος· καὶ κατὰ σύνταξιν τῆς κόρης ἠβουλήθη νυκτὸς ἁρπάσαι αὐτήν. καὶ γνοὺς τοῦτο ὁ αὐτῆς πατήρ, Ἀΐδης βασιλεύς, ἐθυμώθη· καὶ βουλευόμενος ἐν τῷ λεληθότι ἀμύνασθαι τῷ αὐτῷ Περίθῳ, ἵνα ἄγνοιαν προφασίσηται πρὸς πάντας, ὃν εἶχε ποιμενικὸν κύνα ἄγριον μέγαν, ὃν καὶ Τρικέρβερον ὠνόμαζον διὰ τὸ τριῶν κυνῶν ἔχειν κεφαλὴν καὶ μέγεθος σώματος, ἀπέκλεισεν ἔξω ὅπου ἡ κόρη διῆγε. μετὰ οὖν τὴν τελευτὴν τῆς αὐτῆς μητρός, ἀγνοούσης τοῦτο τῆς κόρης, καὶ τοῦ Περίθου παραγενομένου νυκτὸς καὶ εἰσελθόντος εἰς ἁρπαγὴν τῆς κόρης, ὥρμησεν ὁ κύων καὶ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν. ἀκούσασα δὲ καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ κόρη τῆς τα 63 ραχῆς, ἐξῆλθε, καὶ ἐφόνευσε καὶ αὐτὴν ὁ κύων· περὶ ἧς, φησί, λέγουσιν ὅτι Πλούτων ἥρπασε τὴν κόρην· ἅτινα Παλαίφατος ὁ σοφώτατος συνεγράψατο. Ἐν τοῖς χρόνοις δὲ τοῦ Μωσέως ἐβασίλευσε τῶν Ἀσσυρίων Ἐρεχθεύς, τῶν δὲ Αἰγυπτίων ἐβασίλευσε Πετισσώνιος ὁ κωμῳδὸς Φαραώ. οὗτος εἶχε μάγους μεθ' ἑαυτοῦ δυνατούς, τὸν Ἰαννὴν καὶ τὸν Ἰαμβρήν. ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐπληθύνθη τὸ γένος τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἀπὸ τῆς γενεᾶς τοῦ Ἰακὼβ τοῦ ἐλθόντος ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἕως Μωσέως ἡγουμένου αὐτῶν καὶ Ἀαρὼν ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ. ὅστις Μωσῆς ἔλαβε γυναῖκα Αἰγυπτίαν, τὴν θυγατέρα Ἰοθόρ, τοῦ ἀρχιερέως τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἀνδρὸς τιμωμένου ἀπὸ Φαραὼ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Μωσῆς ἦν πεπαιδευμένος πᾶσαν σοφίαν Αἰγύπτου· οἱ δὲ Αἰγύπτιοι ἐφοβοῦντο τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ὡς γενομένους πολλούς, καὶ ἀνήγαγον τῷ Φαραὼ περὶ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐκέλευσε Φαραὼ βασιλεὺς ποιεῖν τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις ἐργατείας καὶ βάλλειν πλίνθους ἀνάγκῃ. εἴ τις οὖν ἐὰν ἐβούλετο τῶν Αἰγυπτίων κτίσαι εἴτε οἶκον εἴτε ἀγρόν, αὐτοὺς ἠνάγκαζε ποιεῖν ἐργατείαν καὶ πλίνθους, καὶ ἐστέναζον κοπιῶντες οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι πάντες. καὶ προσεσχηκὼς Μωσῆς καὶ ὁ τούτου ἀδελφὸς Ἀαρὼν τὸν ἀναστεναγμὸν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, ηὔξαντο τὸν θεόν· καὶ ἐκέλευσε Μωσεῖ κύριος ὁ θεὸς εἰσελθεῖν πρὸς Φαραὼ βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου, καὶ εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ, Ἀπόλυσον τὸν λαὸν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ λα 64 τρεῦσαι αὐτῷ. καὶ λαβὼν Μωσῆς τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ ἀδελφὸν Ἀαρὼν εἰσῆλθε πρὸς Πετισσώνιον Φαραώ, βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου· εἶχε γὰρ παῤῥησίαν, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πενθεροῦ Ἰοθόρ, τοῦ ἱερέως τῶν Ἑλλήνων, καὶ ὡς ἡγούμενος τῶν Ἰουδαίων· καὶ ἀνήγγειλεν αὐτῷ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ κέλευσιν καὶ ὅτι λέγει ὁ θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἵνα ἀπολύσῃς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ λατρεῦσαι αὐτῷ. ὁ δὲ Φαραὼ ἀκούσας λέγει αὐτῷ, Εἰ ἀληθεύεις ὅτι ὁ θεός σου ἐκέλευσέ σοι εἰπεῖν μοι ταῦτα, ἰδοὺ εἰσὶν Αἰγύπτιοι μετ' ἐμοῦ ποιοῦντες θαύματα. ἐὰν νικήσῃς αὐτοὺς αἰτούμενος τὸν