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to fight and be hindered by 110.10 the nations found along their way. So there are, from the seventy-fifth year of the great Abraham, from which this prophecy was given to him by God, until Moses and the arrival of the sons of Israel into Palestine, 430 years, and from the descent into Egypt until their arrival into Palestine, 215 years. 111.1 For the Jews who worked for so many years without wages, was it not just, both in the sight of God and men, that their wages be given to them even at the end? God is therefore not unjust in casting out His own people from there with spoils. 111.2 But if anyone should doubt that the years are not reckoned so, let him hear Moses saying, “Now the sojourning 111.3 of the children of Israel, who dwelt in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt, was 430 years.” Since the Lord therefore takes care of the most just wage, what vain contradiction yet remains for those wishing to bring blame against the holy God? But one could never blame the true God, but those who blame, blame themselves. 111.4 And another vain contradiction is reported by them, similar to the first, that the God of the law is good who took advantage of the Canaanites, in order to give their place to the Israelites, “houses which they did not build and olive groves and fig trees and vineyards which they did not 111.5 plant.” To whom I will say: O vain ones, if God were as a man, the things said or done today would pass away and nothing would be in his remembrance; but since God “is God and not man,” avenging for many generations the things referred to him, he does not forget. For if they are ignorant of this matter, let them learn. 112.1 All know that the just Noah became the remnant of the world after the flood. As therefore he was left behind, both he and his three sons, being a just man and trying to make his own children pious, so that they might not fall into the same evils as those in the flood, he not only handed down piety to them through words, but also by an oath from each one of them he demanded goodwill toward his 112.2 brother. And as one appointed by God heir of the world, he divides the whole world to his three sons, dividing it by lots and assigning each portion to each one by lot; 112.3 and to Shem the firstborn the lot fell from Persia and Bactria as far as India in length, and in breadth from India as far as the country of Rhinocolura; and this Rhinocolura lies between Egypt and Palestine, opposite the Red Sea. 112.4 And to Ham the second, from the same Rhinocolura as far as Gades, the parts to the south. And to Japheth the third, from Media as far as Gades and Rhinocolura, the parts to the north. 113.1 To Shem therefore were born 25 children and children's children until the time the tongues were divided; and they are scattered in tongues and 113.2 tribes and kingdoms. And their names are these: Elymaeans Paeonians Lazones Cossaeans Gaspheni Palestinians Indians Syrians Arabs, who are also Taeni, Arians Mardi Hyrcanians Magusaei Troglodytes Assyrians Germani Lydians Mesopotamians Hebrews Coeleni Bactrians Adiabeni Camilii Saracens Scythians † Chiones Gymnosophists Chaldeans Parthians Eëtae Cordyleni Massyni Phoenicians Madianaei Commageni Dardanians Elamaseni Cedrusii Elamites Armenians Cilicians Egyptians Cappadocians Phoenicians Pontici Marmaridae † Biones Carians Chalybes Psyllitae Lazi Mossynoeci Iberians

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μάχεσθαι καὶ ἐμποδίζεσθαι παρὰ 110.10 τῶν καθ' ὁδὸν αὐτῶν εὑρισκομένων ἐθνῶν. γίνονται οὖν ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ἑβδομηκοστοῦ πέμπτου ἔτους τοῦ μεγάλου Ἀβραάμ, ἀφ' οὗ ἡ πρόρρησις αὕτη ἐδόθη αὐτῷ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ, μέχρι Μωυσέως καὶ τῆς εἰς τὴν Παλαιστίνην ἀφίξεως τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἔτη ˉυˉλ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς καθόδου τῆς εἰς Αἴγυπτον καὶ μέχρι τῆς εἰς Παλαιστίνην αὐτῶν ἀφίξεως ἔτη ˉσˉιˉε. 111.1 Τοσούτοις οὖν ἔτεσιν ἐργασαμένοις τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἀμισθὶ οὐκ ἦν δίκαιον καὶ παρὰ θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώποις δοθῆναι αὐτοῖς τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν κἂν ἐπὶ τέλει; οὐκ ἄδικος τοίνυν ὁ θεὸς μετὰ σκύλων 111.2 ἐκεῖθεν ἐκβαλὼν τοὺς οἰκείους. εἰ δέ τις ἀμφιβάλλοι μὴ οὕτως ἐξαριθμεῖσθαι τὰ ἔτη, ἀκουέτω Μωυσέως λέγοντος «ἡ δὲ κατοίκησις 111.3 τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἐν γῇ Χαναὰν καὶ ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἔτη ˉυˉλ». τοῦ οὖν δικαιοτάτου μισθοῦ τοῦ κυρίου ἐπιμελομένου, ποία τις ἔτι ὑπολείπεται μάταιος ἀντιλογία τοῖς βουλομένοις κατὰ τοῦ ἁγίου θεοῦ καταφέρειν ψόγον; θεὸν δὲ ἀληθινὸν οὐκ ἄν ποτέ τις ψέξειεν, ἀλλ' οἱ ψέγοντες ἑαυτοὺς ψέγουσιν. 111.4 Ἑτέρα δέ τις παρ' αὐτῶν μάταιος καταγγέλλεται ἀντιλογία ὁμοία τῇ πρώτῃ, ὅτι καλὸς ὁ θεὸς τοῦ νόμου ὃς ἐπλεονέκτησε τοὺς Χαναναίους, ἵνα δῷ τοῖς Ἰσραηλίταις τὸν αὐτῶν τόπον, «οἰκίας ἃς οὐκ ᾠκοδόμησαν καὶ ἐλαιῶνας καὶ συκῶνας καὶ ἀμπελῶνας οὓς οὐκ 111.5 ἐφύτευσαν». πρὸς οὓς ἐρῶ· ὦ μάταιοι, εἰ μὲν ἦν θεὸς ὡς ἄνθρωπος, τὰ σήμερον λεγόμενα ἢ πραττόμενα παρήρχετο καὶ οὐδὲν ἦν αὐτῷ ἐν ἐνθυμήσει· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὁ θεὸς «θεός ἐστι καὶ οὐκ ἄνθρωπος», τὰ εἰς αὐτὸν ἀναφερόμενα εἰς πολλὰς γενεὰς ἐκδικῶν οὐκ ἐπιλανθάνεται. εἰ γὰρ ἀγνοοῦσι τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο, μαθέτωσαν. 112.1 Ἴσασι πάντες τὸν δίκαιον Νῶε λείψανον τοῦ κόσμου γεγονότα μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν. ὡς οὖν παρελείφθη αὐτός τε καὶ οἱ τρεῖς αὐτοῦ υἱοί, οἷα δίκαιος ὢν καὶ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ παῖδας εὐλαβεῖς καθιστᾶν πειρώμενος, ἵνα μὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ὑποπέσωσι κακοῖς ὡς καὶ οἱ ἐν τῷ κατακλυσμῷ, οὐ μόνον διὰ λόγων τούτοις τὴν εὐλάβειαν παρεδίδου, ἀλλὰ καὶ δι' ὅρκου ἀφ' ἑνὸς ἑκάστου αὐτῶν τὴν πρὸς τὸν 112.2 ἀδελφὸν εὔνοιαν ἀπῄτησε. καὶ διαμερίζει μὲν ὡς κληρονόμος τοῦ κόσμου καταστὰς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῖς τρισὶν υἱοῖς αὐτοῦ τὸν πάντα κόσμον, ὑπὸ κλήρους διελὼν καὶ ἑκάστην μερίδα κατὰ κλῆρον ἑκάστῳ 112.3 ἀπονέμων· καὶ τῷ μὲν Σὴμ τῷ πρωτοτόκῳ ὑπέπεσεν ὁ κλῆρος ἀπὸ Περσίδος καὶ Βάκτρων ἕως Ἰνδικῆς τὸ μῆκος, πλάτος δὲ ἀπὸ Ἰνδικῆσἕως τῆς χώρας Ῥινοκουρούρων· κεῖται δὲ αὕτη ἡ Ῥινοκουρούρων ἀνὰ μέσον Αἰγύπτου καὶ Παλαιστίνης, ἀντικρὺ τῆς ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. 112.4 Χὰμ δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἀπὸ τῆς αὐτῆς Ῥινοκουρούρων ἕως Γαδείρων τὰ πρὸς νότον. Ἰάφεθ δὲ τῷ τρίτῳ ἀπὸ Μηδίας ἕως Γαδείρων καὶ Ῥινοκουρούρων τὰ πρὸς βορρᾶν. 113.1 Τῷ οὖν Σὴμ γίνονται παῖδες καὶ παίδων παῖδες ˉκˉε ἕως ὅτε διεμερίσθησαν αἱ γλῶσσαι· καὶ εἰσὶ διεσπαρμένοι ἐν γλώσσαις καὶ 113.2 φυλαῖς καὶ βασιλείαις. τὰ δὲ ὀνόματα αὐτῶν ἐστι τάδε· Ἐλυμαῖοι Παίονες Λαζόνες Κοσσαῖοι Γασφηνοὶ Παλαιστινοὶ Ἰνδοὶ Σύροι Ἄραβες οἱ καὶ Ταϊανοὶ Ἀριανοὶ Μάρδοι Ὑρκανοὶ Μαγουσαῖοι Τρωγλοδύται Ἀσσύριοι Γερμανοὶ Λυδοὶ Μεσοποταμῖται Ἑβραῖοι Κοιληνοὶ Βακτριανοὶ Ἀδιαβηνοὶ Καμήλιοι Σαρακηνοὶ Σκύθαι † Χίονες Γυμνοσοφισταὶ Χαλδαῖοι Πάρθοι Ἐῆται Κορδυληνοὶ Μασσυνοὶ Φοίνικες Μαδιηναῖοι Κομμαγηνοὶ ∆αρδάνιοι Ἐλαμασηνοὶ Κεδρούσιοι ἘλαμῖταιἈρμένιοι Κίλικες Αἰγύπτιοι Καππάδοκες Φοίνικες Ποντικοὶ Μαρμαρίδαι † Βίονες Κᾶρες Χάλυβες Ψυλλῖται Λαζοὶ Μοσσύνοικοι Ἴβηρες