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having taken the ruling city of the Ethiopians, he frees Egypt from every hostile plot. From this, envy toward him begins among the Egyptians, and especially from Chenephres; for during this time Palmanothes and Thermuthis had died. And so 1.87 now he plots against him in various ways, being envious, and he entrusts the murder of Moses to Chanathothes; which Moses, learning of, kills him, and thus flees through the desert to Arabia to Jothor and Raguel, and he took his daughter in marriage, from whom he begot Gersam and Eleazar. And Moses, while in Egypt, builds two cities in the name of his mother the queen

. That Eupolemus says that Moses was the first wise man, and that he first gave letters to the Jews, and that from the Jews the Phoenicians received them, and the Greeks from the Phoenicians; and Moses first writes laws for the Jews. And Moses, having left his sojourns in Egypt, philosophized in the desert, being taught by the archangel Gabriel about the creation of the world and of the first man and of those after him, and of the flood, and of the confusion and diversity of tongues, and of matters concerning the first man, and of the times up to himself, and about the legislation that was to be given by him to the nation of the Jews, and the positions of the stars and the elements and arithmetic and geometry and all wisdom, as it is stated in the Book of Jubilees. And that in the 144th year of the bondage in Egypt the Egyptians began to receive the ten plagues. In the month of June the waters were changed into blood, in July frogs, in August gnats, in September dog-flies, in October a plague on the cattle, in November 1.88 boils and sores, in December hail, in January locusts, in February darkness for three days, in March the firstborn. On the 14th of this month, having despoiled the Egyptians, they went out, having done this by the command of God. And after the exodus Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, having taken Zipporah the wife of Moses and his two sons, came to Moses in the desert while he was still fighting Amalek. And in the third month of the exodus of the sons of Israel, the law is given on Mount Sinai, and the decalogue is given to Moses and Aaron and to all the people. And after this again Moses is commanded by God to go up the mountain with Joshua and to receive the written tablets, which God had previously legislated. Then he also sees the pattern of the tabernacle and all things concerning it. But the people make a calf, and Moses breaks the divinely-made tablets. Then again he is commanded to hew tablets and to go up the mountain. And behold, the decalogue is delivered by God a third time: first on Mount Sinai, when there were trumpets and darkness; second, at the time of the wonder of the tabernacle and the things concerning the tabernacle; third, after the making of the calf. For then he spent forty days on the mountain, eating no bread and drinking no water; but then also the glory of his face shone forth to the people. And in the eleventh year of the exodus of the sons of Israel Moses, being commanded to number the people from twenty years old and upward who had come out of Egypt, apart from women, children, and 1.89 the Levitical tribe, found six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty, from the 75 souls who entered Egypt, in 215 years. But all these perished in the desert in various ways, some through blasphemy, some through idolatry, and some through unbelief, except for Joshua and Caleb. And Joshua the son of Nun lived one hundred and ten years, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh one hundred and sixty years. That in the second numbering, when Moses and Eleazar numbered the people, not a man was found from the first numbering, when Moses and Aaron numbered the people. And the first numbering took place near Sinai, and the second by the Jordan. That having made great prayers to

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μητρό πολιν βασιλεύουσαν Αἰθιόπων παραλαβών, τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐλευθε ροῖ πάσης πολεμικῆς ἐπιβουλῆς. ἐντεῦθεν ἄρχεται αὐτῷ ὁ φθόνος παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις, ἐξαιρέτως δὲ αὐτῷ παρὰ τῷ Χενεφρῇ· ἐν τού τοις γὰρ τετελευτήκει ὁ Παλμανώθης καὶ ἡ Θέρμουθις. καὶ τοί 1.87 νυν ἐπιβουλεύεται αὐτῷ ποικίλως βασκαίνων, Χαναθώθῃ δὲ ἐπι τρέπει τὴν τοῦ Μωϋσέως σφαγήν· ἣν γνοὺς Μωϋσῆς ἀναιρεῖ αὐ τόν, καὶ οὕτω φεύγει διὰ τῆς ἐρήμου εἰς τὴν Ἀρραβίαν πρὸς Ἰοθόρι τὸν καὶ Ῥαγουήλ, καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτοῦ τὴν θυγατέρα πρὸς γά μον, ἐξ ἧς ἐπαιδοποίησε τὸν Ἰηρσὰμ καὶ τὸν Ἐλεάζαρ. Μωϋσῆς δὲ ὢν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ κτίζει πόλεις δύο ἐπ' ὀνόματι τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ τῆς βασιλίσσης

. Ὅτι Εὐπόλεμός φησι τὸν Μωϋσέα πρῶτον σοφὸν γενέσθαι, καὶ γράμματα παραδοῦναι Ἰουδαίοις πρῶτον, παρὰ δὲ Ἰουδαίων Φοίνικας παραλαβεῖν, Ἕλληνας δὲ παρὰ Φοινίκων· νόμους δὲ πρῶτον Μωϋσῆς γράφει τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. καταλιπὼν δὲ Μωϋσῆς τὰς κατ' Αἴγυπτον διατριβὰς εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ἐφιλοσόφει, διδα σκόμενος παρὰ τοῦ ἀρχαγγέλου Γαβριὴλ τὰ περὶ τῆς γενέσεως τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τοῦ πρώτου ἀνθρώπου καὶ τῶν μετ' ἐκεῖνον, καὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ, καὶ τῆς συγχύσεως καὶ ποικιλίας τῶν γλωσσῶν, καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν πρῶτον ἄνθρωπον, καὶ τῶν μέχρις αὐτοῦ χρόνων, καὶ περὶ τῆς νομοθεσίας τῆς μελλούσης παρ' αὐτοῦ δίδοσθαι τῷ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνει, καὶ τὰς τῶν ἄστρων θέσεις καὶ τὰ στοιχεῖα καὶ ἀριθμητικὴν καὶ γεωμετρίαν καὶ πᾶσαν σοφίαν, ὡς ἐν τῇ λεπτῇ Γενέσει κεῖται. καὶ ὅτι ἐν ρμδʹ ἔτει τῆς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δουλείας ἤρξαντο Αἰγύπτιοι δέχεσθαι τὴν δεκάπληγον. ἐν μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ τὰ ὕδατα εἰς αἷμα μετεβλήθη, Ἰουλίῳ βάτραχοι, Αὐγούστῳ σκνῖπες, Σεπτεμβρίῳ κυνόμυια, Ὀκτωβρίῳ κτηνῶν πτῶσις, Νοεμβρίῳ 1.88 φλυκτίδες καὶ ἕλκη, ∆εκεμβρίῳ χάλαζα, Ἰανουαρίῳ ἀκρίς, Φε βρουαρίῳ σκότος ἡμέρας τρεῖς, Μαρτίῳ τὰ πρωτότοκα. τῇ ιδʹ τούτου τοῦ μηνὸς σκυλεύσαντες τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους ἐξῆλθον, προσ τάξει θεοῦ τοῦτο πεποιηκότες. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἔξοδον Ἰοθὸρ ὁ πενθερὸς Μωϋσέως, λαβὼν Σεπφόραν τὴν γυναῖκα Μωϋσέως καὶ τοὺς δύο υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ, κατέλαβε πρὸς Μωϋσῆν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ἔτι πολεμοῦντα τὸν Ἀμαλήκ. καὶ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ μηνὶ τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ τὰ ἐν τῷ Σιναίῳ ὄρει νομοθετεῖται, καὶ ἡ δεκάλογος δίδοται Μωϋσῇ καὶ Ἀαρὼν καὶ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο πάλιν κελεύεται ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ Μωϋσῆς μετὰ Ἰησοῦ ἀνελθεῖν ἐν τῷ ὄρει καὶ λαβεῖν τὰ πυξία γεγραμμένα, ἃ προενομοθέτησεν ὁ θεός. τότε καὶ τὸν τύπον τῆς σκηνῆς θεωρεῖ καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτὴν πάντα. μοσχοποιεῖ δὲ ὁ λαός, καὶ συντρίβει Μωϋσῆς τὰς θεουρ γηθείσας πλάκας. εἶτα πάλιν κελεύεται λαξεῦσαι πλάκας καὶ ἀνελθεῖν ἐν τῷ ὄρει. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἡ δεκάλογος παρὰ θεοῦ τρίτον παραδέδοται, πρῶτον ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους Σινᾶ, ἡνίκα αἱ σάλπιγγες καὶ ὁ γνόφος, δεύτερον ἡνίκα τὸ παράδοξον τῆς σκηνῆς καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν σκηνήν, τρίτον μετὰ τὴν μοσχοποιίαν. καὶ τότε γὰρ τεσσα ράκοντα ἡμέρας διέτριψεν ἐν τῷ ὄρει, ἄρτον μὴ φαγὼν μηδὲ ὕδωρ πιών· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ δόξα τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ τότε ἐξέλαμ ψεν εἰς τὸν λαόν. Καὶ ἐν τῷ ἑνδεκάτῳ ἔτει τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ κε λευσθεὶς Μωϋσῆς ἐξαριθμῆσαι τὸν λαὸν ἀπὸ εἰκοσαετοῦς καὶ ἐπάνω τοὺς ἐξελθόντας ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, χωρὶς γυναικῶν παιδίων καὶ 1.89 τῆς Λευιτικῆς φυλῆς, εὗρε μυριάδας ἑξήκοντα καὶ τρισχιλίους πεντακοσίους πεντήκοντα, ἀπὸ τῶν εἰσελθόντων εἰς Αἴγυπτον οεʹ ψυχῶν, εἰς ἔτη σιεʹ. πάντες δὲ οὗτοι ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ διεφθάρησαν ποικίλως, οἱ μὲν διὰ βλασφημίαν, οἱ δὲ δι' εἰδωλολατρείαν, οἱ δὲ δι' ἀπιστίαν, ἐκτὸς Ἰησοῦ καὶ Χάλεβ. ἔζησε δὲ Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ ἔτη ἑκατὸν δέκα, ὁ δὲ τοῦ Ἰεφονῆ Χάλεβ ἔτη ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα. Ὅτι ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ ἐξαριθμήσει, ἡνίκα Μωϋσῆς καὶ Ἐλεά ζαρ ἠρίθμησαν τὸν λαόν, οὐχ εὑρέθη ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῆς πρώτης ἀριθμήσεως, ἡνίκα Μωϋσῆς καὶ Ἀαρὼν ἠρίθμησαν τὸν λαόν. γέγονε δὲ ἡ πρώτη ἀρίθμησις περὶ τὸ Σίναιον, ἡ δὲ δευτέρα παρὰ τὸν Ἰορδάνην. Ὅτι δεήσεις μεγάλας ποιησάμενος πρὸς