| Caath | Phares. | | | |
| | | k Jacob sent his ten sons into Aegypt to buy corn. Where they were threatened as suspected spies, and one was kept in prison, till they should bring their brother Benjamin. Gen. 42. | As the people increased so idolatry was multiplied, and innumerable gods feigned and served with superstitious rites in all heathen nations. Amongst which first the Assirians, and at last the Romans held the principality, others in respect of them were of less power, or of shorter time, and as it were dependents of them: as S. Augustin observeth. li. 18. c. 2. de civit. | |
| l 2269. | | | l They returning into Aegypt with Benjamin in their company, Joseph first terrified them, afterwards manifested himself unto them. And sending for his father and whole kindred, they all went into Aegypt. Gen. 43. 44. 45. & 46. | | Job either of the progeny of Nachor, or as seemeth more probable of Esau, lived the same time; in which the children of Israel were pressed with servitude in Aegypt. Himself writ the history of his affliction in the Arabian tongue which Moyses translated into Hebrew. |
| m 2286. | Amram. | Esron. | m Jacob blessed & adopted the two sons of Joseph, preferring Ephraim the younger before Manasses. Gen. 48. prophesied of all his twelve sons, and in Judas of Christ. Gen. 49. v. 10. And then died. | | |
| | | n Joseph buried his father in Chanaan, and nourished his brethren with their families, as their patron & superior. Gen. 50. v. 18. | | |
| o 2340. | | | o He died at the age of 110. years Gen. 50. | | |
| | | After his death the Superiority of the children of Israel descended not to his sons, but to his brethren, & rested in Levi the third brother living longest of all the twelve, to the age of 137. years. Exo. 6. v. 16. whose genealogy is there declared to shew the descent of Aaron & Moyses. | About this time was Atlas the great astronomer brother of Prometheus, grandfather to Mercurius the elder, whose nephew Mercurius, otherwise called Trismegistus, the master of moral philosophy, must needs be a good while after Moyses. S. Aug. l. 18. c. 39. de civit. Also Cecrops the first King & builder of Athens, was in Moyses time, after him Cadmus built Thebes, & the first that brought letters into Greece, more ancient than many Paynim gods. S. Aug. l. 18. c. 8. &c. | The book of Exodus containeth the affliction and delivery of the children of Israel, & precepts of God’s law. |
| p 2401. | Aaron. born. | | | | |
| q 2404. | Moyses born. | Aram. | | | |
| | | r Moyses an infant of three months was put in a basket on the water, & taken thence by Pharao’s daughter, nursed by his own mother, and brought up in Pharao’s court. Exo. 2. | | |
| s 2244. | | | s At the age of forty years he went to his brethren to comfort them. Where killing an Aegyptian that oppressed an Israelite, he was forced to fly into Madian. Exod. 2. | | |
| t 2484. | | Aminadab. | t After other forty years God appeared to Moyses in a bush burning & not wasting. Sent him into Aegypt with power to work miracles, and to bring the children of Israel out of that bondage. | | |
| | | u Pharao and the Aegyptians resisting were plagued with ten sundry afflictions. At last the Israelites were delivered, and Pharao with all his army drowned. Exo. 3. to. 15. | | |