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This is what the Egyptians relate about the Jews, with much more,
which I omit for the sake of brevity. But still Manetho goes on, that "after
this, Amenophis returned back from Ethiopia with a great army, as did his
son Ahampses with another army also, and that both of them joined battle
with the shepherds and the polluted people, and beat them, and slew a great
many of them, and pursued them to the bounds of Syria." These and
the like accounts are written by Manetho. But I will demonstrate that he
trifles, and tells arrant lies, after I have made a distinction which will
relate to what I am going to say about him; for this Manetho had granted
and confessed that this nation was not originally Egyptian, but that they
had come from another country, and subdued Egypt, and then went away again
out of it. But that. those Egyptians who were thus diseased in their bodies
were not mingled with us afterward, and that Moses who brought the people
out was not one of that company, but lived many generations earlier, I
shall endeavor to demonstrate from Manetho's own accounts themselves.
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