I5 o CHRONOLOGY.

Chapter gods and heroes. Whence their gods Ammon and Rhea, orsecond. {j ranus an d xitaea ; 0 liris and liis; Orus and Bubalte ; and theirfecretary Thoth: and generals, Hercules and Pan; and admiraljapetus, Neptune, or Typhon ; were all of themThebans, andflourifhed at ter the expullion of the fhepherds. Homer places* Diodcr. Thebes in Ethiopia; and the Ethiopians reported, that a the Egyp-p. joi. tians were a colony drawn out of them by Oliris, and that thenceit came to pafs that moft of the laws of Egypt were the famewith thole of Ethiopia; and that the Egyptians learnt from theEthiopians the cuftom of deifying their kings.

VII. Wlien Jofeph entertained his brethren in Egypt, they

did eat at a table by themfelves, and he did eat at another tableby himfelf; and the Egyptians who did eat with him were atanother table, " becaufe the Egyptians might not eat bread with“ the Hebrews ; for that was an abomination to the Egyptians,”Gen. xliii. 32. Thefe Egyptians, who did eat with Jofeph, wereof the court of Pharaoh; and therefore Pharaoh and his courtwere at this time not fhepherds but genuine Egyptians; and thefeEgyptians abominated eating bread with the Hebrews at one andthe fame table : and of thefe Egyptians and their fellow-fubje£ts,it is faid a little after, that " every fhepherd is an abomination to" the Egyptians Egypt at this time was therefore under the

government of the genuine Egyptians, and not under that of thefhepherds.

VIII. After the defcent of Jacob and his fons into Egypt, Jo-feph lived 70 (') years, and lo long continued in favour with thekings of Egypt: and 64 years ( z ) after his death Mofes was born:and between the death of Jofeph and the. birth of Mofes, " there

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§ VII.

(') Gen. xlvi. 34.

§ VIII.

(‘) ]oseph w:s thirty years of age, when he ifoodbefore Pharaoh, and interpreted his dream,Gen. xli. 46. Then followed feven fruitful years; and Jacob lettled in Egypt in the third yearof the faminc, which enfned, Gen. xlv. 6. Jqleph therefore was 40 years of age when his fa-ther came into Egypt; and Ire lived to be no, Gen. 1 . 26. Therefore he furvived his father’sCorning into Egypt 70 years.

0 ) Or 66; accordingto the reckoning vvhich ourauthor follows, whichis founded upon Exo-dus xii. 40, 41. as it itands in the Samaritan copy, and the Greek of the Septuagint. “ For the“ foumrtring of the ehildren of Ifrael, whieh they fojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of“ Canaan , cy and their fathers, ivas 430 years. At:d after the 450 years, the <whole haji of the Lord“ tvent out of tle land of Egypt in the nightf Thefe 430 years Newton counts from thepromife

given