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CHAPTER VIII.
the bondage.
After the death of Joseph, sixty-five years elapsed before
the birth of Moses, according to the chronology of Dr. Hales.
The author of the Pentateuch distinctly informs us that
during this interval all the sons of Jacob, and the men of their
generation, had died; and toward the latter part of the
interval above named, the fact meets us that " there arose tip
a new king- over Egypt, which knew not Joseph." This is a
particular of Egyptian history, in the explanation of which
confusion has arisen, from the fabrication of the pretended
Manetho about the leprous Israelites under Moses, and their
recall of the shepherd kings, to which we have already
adverted. Some have thought that the monarch of this neW
dynasty was the first sovereign furnished on the re-intrusion
of the pastoral invaders. In opposition to this opinion, we
are met by the fact that these shepherds are represented by
Manetho (the only authority for the return of the shepherds
at all,) as coming back on the invitation of the Israelites;
the shepherds, therefore, were not likely to become their
oppressors. But further, according to Manetho, the Israelites
were not oppressed during this supposed second period of
pastoral sway, but, in conjunction with the shepherds, were
themselves the oppressors. The document of Manetho on
this subject, therefore, can only be made intelligible by inter"
the bondage.
After the death of Joseph, sixty-five years elapsed before
the birth of Moses, according to the chronology of Dr. Hales.
The author of the Pentateuch distinctly informs us that
during this interval all the sons of Jacob, and the men of their
generation, had died; and toward the latter part of the
interval above named, the fact meets us that " there arose tip
a new king- over Egypt, which knew not Joseph." This is a
particular of Egyptian history, in the explanation of which
confusion has arisen, from the fabrication of the pretended
Manetho about the leprous Israelites under Moses, and their
recall of the shepherd kings, to which we have already
adverted. Some have thought that the monarch of this neW
dynasty was the first sovereign furnished on the re-intrusion
of the pastoral invaders. In opposition to this opinion, we
are met by the fact that these shepherds are represented by
Manetho (the only authority for the return of the shepherds
at all,) as coming back on the invitation of the Israelites;
the shepherds, therefore, were not likely to become their
oppressors. But further, according to Manetho, the Israelites
were not oppressed during this supposed second period of
pastoral sway, but, in conjunction with the shepherds, were
themselves the oppressors. The document of Manetho on
this subject, therefore, can only be made intelligible by inter"