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Joseph also died when he had lived a hundred and ten years; having
been a man of admirable virtue, and conducting all his affairs by the rules
of reason; and used his authority with moderation, which was the cause
of his so great felicity among the Egyptians, even when he came from another
country, and that in such ill circumstances also, as we have already described.
At length his brethren died, after they had lived happily in Egypt. Now
the posterity and sons of these men, after some time, carried their bodies,
and buried them at Hebron: but as to the bones of Joseph, they carried
them into the land of Canaan afterward, when the Hebrews went out of Egypt,
for so had Joseph made them promise him upon oath. But what became of every
one of these men, and by what toils they got the possession of the land
of Canaan, shall be shown hereafter, when I have first explained upon what
account it was that they left Egypt.
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1 CONCERNING THE AFFLICTIONS THAT BEFELL THE HEBREWS IN EGYPT, DURING FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. 1
2 As to the affliction of Abraham's posterity for 400 years, see Antiq. B. I. ch. 10. sect. 3; and as to what cities they built in Egypt, under Pharaoh Sesostris. and of Pharaoh Sesostris's drowning in the Red Sea, see Essay on the Old Testament, Append. p. 132-162.
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