58

The book of Genesis concludes in time, that is, in the 110th year of Joseph's life, it has calculated 361 years; therefore, according to Eusebius, from Adam until the death of Joseph are 3545 years. But he is in error by 127 years compared to 3672. Up to this 3672nd year from the first-formed Adam, Moses the God-seer narrates in the first divinely-inspired book of Genesis. But it would be well, having set out in summary the same 3672 worldly years from Adam until the death of Joseph from the same holy book according to the edition of the 70 wise men, thus to proceed to the accurate chronology of the succeeding events as far as possible. For the same 3672nd year from Adam coincides with the 110th year of the life of the chaste Joseph, in which he also died, after 80 years of rule in Egypt. For he began to rule it at the age of thirty, having lived 70 years after the descent of his father with his whole household to him in Egypt and their sojourn there with the whole family, which happened after 10 years of his rule according to the same divinely-inspired scripture, the 7 years of plenty having passed, and Israel having come down into Egypt in the third year of the famine, at which time Jacob himself was 130 years old, as he said to Pharaoh when asked by him, and Joseph was 40 years old, if indeed he was entrusted with the rule of Egypt at the age of thirty, and in the tenth year after it he received his father and his brothers, so that from this another necessary question is demonstrated to us; that Joseph was born to him by Rachel in the 91st year of Jacob, the first after one daughter, Dinah, and 10 male children. For these, according to reverse calculation, were born in at least eleven years before Joseph, with one year allotted to each according to the emphasis of the oracles, Levi in the 82nd. There are therefore in all in Mesopotamia 10 sons and one daugh 129 ter, Dinah, and after all of them, last in order, for he was the 12th from Reuben, was Joseph, but the first from Rachel, born in the 91st year of Jacob, as has been previously demonstrated. But if the enumeration is by reversing the times of each one's birth, beginning from Joseph and ending at Reuben, it is something like this. Joseph, the twelfth and last of Jacob's children in Mesopotamia, was born in his 91st year, the first by Rachel; Dinah, Leah's seventh child, was born one year before Joseph in the 90th year of Jacob, the eleventh. Zebulun, the sixth son of Leah, was born two years before Joseph, the 10th from Reuben; Issachar, the fifth son of Leah, was born 3 years before Joseph; being fourth before him was Asher, the 2nd by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and 5th from Joseph in reverse, and eighth from Reuben. Gad, the first by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, 6th from Joseph in reverse and 7th from Reuben; Naphtali, the 2nd son of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, 8th from Joseph in reverse and 5th from Reuben; Judah, the 4th son of Leah, 9th from Joseph in reverse and 4th from Reuben; Levi, the 3rd son of Leah, 10th for one counting backwards from Joseph and 3rd from Reuben, was born to the patriarch Jacob in Mesopotamia in his 82nd year, as is manifest. Having counted him from Benjamin who was still in Rachel's womb, being the 10th among the males, he dedicated him to God and appointed him high priest, as Josephus says, according to the reverse calculation, tithing along with him all his possessions and dedicating them to God, just as he had prayed when going to Mesopotamia, that "and of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you." Simeon, the 2nd son of Leah, was born in the 81st year of Jacob; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn son and Leah's, was born in the 80th year of Jacob. Therefore it is clearly shown to us from these things that Jacob came to Laban 7 years before, in the 73rd year of his life. The times concerning the birth of each of the patriarchs having been thus previously discussed for accurate consideration, let the years from Adam until the death of Joseph also be set forth. From Adam again: Adam, being 230 years old, begot Seth, and lived on 700 years and died. 130 Seth, being 205 years old, begot Enos, and lived on 707 years and died. In his 700th year, that is in the 930th year of the world, Adam died. Enos, being 190 years old, begot

58

καταλήγει χρόνῳ τῆς Γενέσεως ἡ βίβλος, ἤγουν τῷ ριʹ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς Ἰωσήφ, ἔτη τξαʹ ἐπελογίσατο· γίνονται οὖν κατὰ Εὐσέβιον ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς τελευτῆς Ἰωσὴφ ἔτη γφμεʹ. διαμαρτάνει δὲ οὗτος ἔτεσιν ρκζʹ ὡς πρὸς γχοβʹ. Ἕως τοῦδε τοῦ γχοβʹ ἔτους ἀπὸ τοῦ πρωτοπλάστου Ἀδὰμ ἱστορεῖ Μωυσῆς ὁ θεόπτης ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ θεοπνεύστῳ τῆς Γενέσεως βίβλῳ. Εὖ δ' ἂν εἴη κεφαλαιωδῶς ἐκθεμένου τὰ αὐτὰ γχοβʹ κοσμικὰ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἔτη ἕως τῆς Ἰωσὴφ τελευτῆς ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ἱερᾶς βίβλου κατὰ τὴν τῶν οʹ σοφῶν ἔκδοσιν οὕτω χωρῆσαι πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἐφεξῆς ἀκριβῆ κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν χρονολογίαν. συντρέχει γὰρ τῷ ριʹ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ σώφρονος Ἰωσὴφ τὸ αὐτὸ γχοβʹ ἔτος ἐξ Ἀδάμ, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ἐτελεύτησε, μετὰ πʹ ἔτη τῆς ἡγεμονίας Αἰγύπτου. τριακοντούτης γὰρ αὐτῆς ἦρξε, ζήσας ἔτη οʹ με τὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πανοικικὴν κάθοδον καὶ αὐτόθι παγγενῆ παροικίαν, ἥτις γέγονε μετὰ ιʹ ἔτη τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν θεόπνευστον γραφήν, τῶν ζʹ διελθόντων τῆς εὐθηνίας ἐτῶν, τῷ δὲ τρίτῳ τῆς λιμοῦ κατελθόντος Ἰσραὴλ εἰς Αἴγυπτον, ἡνίκα καὶ ἦν αὐτὸς μὲν Ἰακὼβ ἐτῶν ρλʹ, ὡς ἔφη πρὸς Φαραῶ πρὸς αὐτοῦ ἐρωτηθείς, Ἰωσὴφ δὲ ἦν ἐτῶν μʹ, εἴπερ τριακοντούτης τῆς Αἰγύπτου τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐγκεχείρισται, δεκάτῳ δὲ τότε ἔτει μετ' αὐτὴν ἀπέλαβε τὸν πατέρα καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφούς, ὡς ἐντεῦθεν ἡμῖν καὶ ἄλλο τι τῶν ἀναγκαίων συναποδείκνυ σθαι ζήτημα· τὸν μὲν Ἰωσὴφ κατὰ τὸ ζαʹ ἔτος Ἰακὼβ τεχθῆναι αὐτῷ ἐκ τῆς Ῥαχήλ, πρῶτον ἐπὶ θυγατρὶ μιᾷ ∆είνᾳ καὶ παισὶν ἄρρεσι ιʹ. τούτοις κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀναστροφῆς λόγον ἐν ἕνδεκα τοὐλάχιστον ἔτεσι πρὸ Ἰωσὴφ τεχθεῖσιν, ἑνὸς ἔτους ἑκάστῳ νεμομένου κατὰ τὴν τῶν λογίων ἔμφασιν, τὸν Λευὶ τῷ πβʹ. εἰσὶν οὖν οἱ πάντες ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ παῖδες ιʹ καὶ θυ 129 γάτηρ μία ∆είνα, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἔσχατος μὲν τῇ τάξει, ιβʹ γὰρ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν, ὁ Ἰωσήφ, πρῶτος δὲ ἐκ τῆς Ῥαχὴλ κατὰ τὸ ζαʹ ἔτος Ἰακὼβ γεννηθείς,ὡς προαποδέδεικται. εἰ δὲ κατὰ ἀντιστροφὴν τῶν χρόνων τῆς ἑκάστου γενέσεως ἀπαρίθμησις ἀρχομένοις ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ λήγουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν Ῥουβήν, οὕτω πως ἔχει. Ἰωσὴφ δὲ δωδέκατος καὶ ἔσχατος τῶν ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ παίδων τοῦ Ἰακὼβ ἐγεννήθη τῷ ζαʹ ἔτει αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς Ῥαχὴλ πρῶτος· ∆είνα ἑπτάπαις Λείας πρὸ ἑνὸς ἔτους Ἰωσὴφ ἐγεννήθη τῷ ζʹ ἔτει Ἰακὼβ ἑνδεκάτη. Ζαβουλὼν ἕκτος υἱὸς Λείας πρὸς δύο ἐτῶν τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἐγεννήθη ιʹ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν· Ἰσσάχαρ πέμπτος υἱὸς Λείας πρὸ ἐτῶν γʹ τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἐγεννήθη· τέταρτος ὢν πρὸ αὐτοῦ Ἀσὴρ ἐκ Ζελφᾶς παιδίσκης Λείας βʹ, ἀπὸ δὲ Ἰωσὴφ εʹ κατὰ ἀναστροφὴν καὶ ὄγδοος ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν. Γὰδ πρῶτος ἐκ Ζελφᾶς παιδίσκης Λείας, ςʹ ἀπὸ Ἰωσὴφ κατὰ ἀναστροφὴν καὶ ζʹ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν· Νεφθαλεὶμ βʹ υἱὸς Βαλλᾶς παιδίσκης Ῥαχήλ, ηʹ ἀπὸ Ἰωσὴφκατὰ ἀναστροφὴν καὶ εʹ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν· Ἰούδας δʹ υἱὸς Λείας, θʹ ἀπὸ Ἰωσὴφκατὰ ἀναστροφὴν καὶ δʹ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν· Λευὶ γʹ υἱὸς Λείας, ιʹ ἀπὸ Ἰωσὴφ ἀναστρέφοντι καὶ γʹ ἀπὸ Ῥουβήν, ἐγεννήθη τῷ πατριάρχῃ Ἰακὼβ ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῷ πβʹ ἔτει αὐτοῦ, ὡς πρόδηλόν ἐστι. τοῦτον ἀριθμήσας ἀπὸ τοῦ Βενιαμὶν ἔτι ὄντος ἐν τῇ γαστρὶ Ῥαχὴλ ιʹ ὄντα ἐν ἄρρεσιν, ἀφιέρωσε τῷ θεῷ καὶ ἀρχιερέα ἀνέδειξεν, ὡς Ἰώσηππος, κατὰ τὸν τῆς ἀναστροφῆς λόγον, συναποδεκατώσας αὐτῷ πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα καὶ ἀναθέμενος τῷ θεῷ, καθὰ προσηύξατο πορευόμενος εἰς Μεσοποταμίαν ὅτι «καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἄν μοι δῷς ἀποδεκατώσω αὐτά.» Συμεὼν βʹ υἱὸς Λείας τῷ παʹ ἔτει Ἰακὼβ ἐγεννήθη· Ῥουβὴν πρωτότοκος Ἰακὼβ υἱὸς καὶ Λείας τῷ πʹἔτει Ἰακὼβ ἐγεννήθη. σαφῶς ἄρα παρίσταται ἡμῖν ἐκ τούτων ὅτι πρὸ ζʹ ἐτῶν ἦλθεν Ἰακὼβ πρὸς Λάβαν τῷ ογʹ ἔτει τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ. Οὕτως προδιειλημμένων τῶν περὶ τῆς ἑκάστου τῶν πατριαρχῶν γε νέσεως χρόνων ἀκριβοῦς θεωρίας ἐγκείσθω καὶ τὰ ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τε λευτῆς Ἰωσὴφ ἔτη. Ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ πάλιν Ἀδὰμ γενόμενος ἐτῶν σλʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Σήθ, καὶ ἐπέζησεν ἔτη ψʹ καὶ ἀπέθανε. 130 Σὴθ γενόμενος ἐτῶν σεʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἐνώς, καὶ ἐπέζησεν ἔτη ψζʹ καὶ ἀπέθανε. τούτου τῷ ψʹ ἔτει, ἤτοι τῷ Ϡλʹ ἔτει τοῦ κόσμου, Ἀδὰμ ἀπέθα νεν. Ἐνὼς γενόμενος ἐτῶν ρ ζʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν