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Akecheres, 12 years, 5 months. and after him Akecheres, 12 years, 3 months. and Armais, 4 years, 1 month. and after him Ramesses, one year, 4 months. and after him Armesses Miammou, 60 years and 2 months. and after him Amenophis, 19 years, months. and Sethos and Ramesses, 60 years, who they say had a great force of cavalry and a naval armament in their own times. The Hebrews, at that time sojourning in the land of Egypt and enslaved by the king who has been mentioned before, Tethmosis, built for him fortified cities, both Pithom and Ramesses and On, which is the city of the Sun; so that the Hebrews are shown to be more ancient than the famous cities of the Egyptians at that time, who are also our forefathers, from whom we have the sacred books, which are more ancient than all writers, as we have said before. The country Egypt was named after king Sethos; for Sethos, they say, is called Aigyptos. And Sethos had a brother whose name was Armais; he is called Danaus, who came to Argos from Egypt, whom the other writers mention as being very ancient. But Manetho, who wrote much nonsense about the Egyptians, and moreover spoke blasphemies against both Moses and the Hebrews with him, as if they were expelled from Egypt because of leprosy, did not manage to state the chronology accurately. For in calling them shepherds and enemies of the Egyptians, he said "shepherds" unwillingly, being convicted by the truth; for our forefathers who sojourned in Egypt were indeed shepherds, but not lepers. For having come to the land called Judaea, where they also dwelt in the meantime, it is made clear in what manner their priests, by the command of God, attending to the temple, then healed every disease so that they even cured lepers and every blemish. Solomon the king of Judaea built a temple. That Manetho was mistaken about the times is clear from his own statements; but also concerning the king who expelled them, Pharaoh by name. For he did not reign over them any longer; for having pursued the Hebrews with his army, he was drowned in the Red Sea. Moreover, he lies also about those whom he said were shepherds who had made war on the Egyptians; for 313 years before they departed from Egypt and inhabited from that time the land, which is still now called Judaea, before Danaus also arrived at Argos. And that most of the Greeks consider him more ancient than the others is clear. So Manetho, unwillingly, has indicated two aspects of the truth to us through his writings: first, by acknowledging them to be shepherds, and second, by saying that they had come out of the land of Egypt; so that from these records it is also shown that Moses and those with him are nine hundred or even a thousand years before the Trojan War.

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Ἀκεγχήρης ἔτη ιβ, μῆνας ε. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Ἀκεγχήρης ἔτη ιβ, μῆνας γ. τοῦ δὲ Ἄρμαϊς ἔτη δ, μῆνα α. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ῥαμέσσης ἐνιαυτόν, μῆνας δ. μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον Ἀρμέσσης Μιαμμοῦ ἔτη ξ καὶ μῆνας β. καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ἀμένωφις ἔτη ιθ, μῆνας . τοῦ δὲ Σέθως καὶ Ῥαμέσσης ἔτη ξ, οὕς φασιν ἐσχηκέναι πολλὴν δύνα- μιν ἱππικῆς καὶ παράταξιν ναυτικῆς κατὰ τοὺς ἰδίους χρόνους. Oἱ μὲν Ἑβραῖοι, κατ' ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ παροικήσαντες ἐν γῇ Aἰγύπτῳ καὶ καταδουλωθέντες ὑπὸ βασιλέως ὃς προείρηται Τέθμω- σις, ᾠκοδόμησαν αὐτῷ πόλεις ὀχυράς, τήν τε Πειθὼ καὶ Ῥαμεσσῆ καὶ Ὤν, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἡλίου πόλις· ὥστε καὶ τῶν πόλεων τῶν τότε ὀνομαστῶν κατ' Aἰγυπτίους δείκνυνται προγενέστεροι οἱ Ἑβραῖοι ὄντες, οἳ καὶ προπάτορες ἡμῶν, ἀφ' ὧν καὶ τὰς ἱερὰς βίβλους ἔχομεν ἀρχαιοτέρας οὔσας ἁπάντων συγγραφέων, καθὼς προειρή- καμεν. Aἴγυπτος δὲ ἡ χώρα ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως Σέθως· ὁ γὰρ Σέθως, φασίν, Aἴγυπτος καλεῖται. τῷ δὲ Σέθως ἦν ἀδελφὸς ᾧ ὄνομα Ἄρμαϊς· οὗτος ∆αναὸς κέκληται ὁ εἰς Ἄργος ἀπὸ Aἰγύπτου παραγενόμενος, οὗ μέμνηται οἱ λοιποὶ συγγραφεῖς ὡς πάνυ ἀρχαίου τυγχάνοντος. Μαναιθὼς δὲ ὁ κατ' Aἰγυπτίους πολλὰ φλυαρήσας, ἔτι μὴν καὶ βλάσφημα εἰπὼν εἴς τε Μωσέα καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ Ἑβραίους, ὡς δῆθεν διὰ λέπραν ἐκβληθέντας ἐκ τῆς Aἰγύπτου, οὐχ εὗρεν τὸ ἀκριβὲς τῶν χρόνων εἰπεῖν. ποιμένας μὲν γὰρ αὐτοὺς εἰπὼν καὶ πολεμίους Aἰγυπτίων, τὸ μὲν ποιμένας ἄκων εἶπεν, ἐλεγχόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς ἀληθείας· ἦσαν γὰρ ὄντως ποιμένες οἱ προπάτορες ἡμῶν, οἱ παροικήσαντες ἐν Aἰγύπτῳ, ἀλλ' οὐ λεπροί. παραγενόμενοι γὰρ εἰς τὴν γῆν τὴν καλουμένην Ἰουδαίαν, ἔνθα καὶ μεταξὺ κατῴκησαν, δηλοῦται ᾧ τρόπῳ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῶν διὰ προστάγματος θεοῦ προσ- καρτεροῦντες τῷ ναῷ, τότε ἐθεράπευον πᾶσαν νόσον ὥστε καὶ λεπρῶντας καὶ πάντα μῶμον ἰῶντο. ναὸν ᾠκοδόμησεν Σολομὼν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς Ἰουδαίας. Περὶ δὲ τοῦ πεπλανῆσθαι τὸν Μαναιθὼ περὶ τῶν χρόνων ἐκ τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ εἰρημένων δῆλόν ἐστιν· ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοῦ βασιλέως τοῦ ἐκβαλόντος αὐτούς, Φαραὼ τοὔνομα. οὐκέτι γὰρ αὐτῶν ἐβασίλευσεν· καταδιώξας γὰρ Ἑβραίους μετὰ τοῦ στρατεύματος κατεποντίσθη εἰς τὴν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν. ἔτι μὴν καὶ οὓς ἔφη ποιμένας πεπολεμηκέναι τοὺς Aἰγυπτίους ψεύδεται· πρὸ ἐτῶν γὰρ λ%γ ἐξῆλθον ἐκ τῆς Aἰγύπτου καὶ ᾤκησαν ἔκτοτε τὴν χώραν, τὴν ἔτι καὶ νῦν καλουμένην Ἰουδαίαν, πρὸ τοῦ καὶ ∆αναὸν εἰς Ἄργος ἀφικέσθαι. ὅτι δὲ τοῦτον ἀρχαιότερον ἡγοῦνται τῶν λοιπῶν κατὰ Ἕλληνας οἱ πλείους, σαφές ἐστιν. Ὥστε ὁ Μαναιθὼς δύο τάξεις ἄκων τῆς ἀληθείας μεμήνυκεν ἡμῖν διὰ τῶν αὐτοῦ γραμμάτων, πρῶτον μὲν ποιμένας αὐτοὺς ὁμολογήσας, δεύτερον εἰπὼν καὶ τὸ ἐξεληλυθέναι αὐτοὺς ἐκ γῆς Aἰγύπτου· ὥστε καὶ ἐκ τούτων τῶν ἀναγραφῶν δείκνυσθαι προγενέ- στερον εἶναι τὸν Μωσῆν καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ ἐνακοσίους ἢ καὶ χιλίους ἐνιαυτοὺς πρὸ τοῦ Ἰλιακοῦ πολέμου.