in Egypt, Arabia Petrcea grV. 54,5 



Jofephtis gives us a further Teftimonv, that the Land of ^'^'^ Hebrews 



1 1 I • <-.• • 1 • Λ η η Jirjl Settled at 



Goftjen had this Situation, by placing the nrit Settlement of Hehopoiis. 

 the Hehrews at Heliopol'is' or On', as the Scriptures call it. 

 The Ruins of this City are known at prefent by the Name of 

 [^'>"] Matta-reah, from a Fountain, we have there, of excel- 

 lent Water ', lying about three Miles to the Eaftward of the 

 Nile, and five to the N. E. of Kairo. But, in Proportion as 

 the Hehrews increafed, it may be prefumed, that they fpread 

 themfelves further towards BifljbeJJj (the antient Bubaflis) 

 and Kairo, along the Arabian Banks of the Nile. For we are 

 inftructed, {Ex.i.ii.) that the IJraelites built Tithom, (the 

 Tatumns probably, which Herodotus'' placeth in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Bubaflis) and, in Confequence thereof, they may 

 be fuppofed to have inhabited, at leaft to have lived in the 

 Neighbourhood of It. As their Departure likewife was from La- 

 topoHs{ov Babylon ' as it was afterwards called)it may be prefumed, 

 thatThis was aPortion of theLand, which they were permitted to 

 inhabit, Gofjen then was that Part of the HeliopoUtan Nomos or Thcw Detnr- 

 Land oiRamefes, which lay in theNeighbourhood oiKairo,Mat-'^^i^o! ^''°"' 

 ta-reah and Btpjbefj ; as the former of theie Cities might be Ra- 

 mefes, the Capital of the Diftriol of that Name, where the 

 Ifraelites had their Rendezvous^ before they departed out of 

 Egypt. 



Now^, Ιεβ peradventure when the Hebrews Jaw war, theyT^^" T^oaJsto 

 Pjould repent and return to Egypt , God did not lead them 

 through the way of the Land of the Philiftines, {viz. by Bifi- 

 befj, Tineh, and, fo along the Sea Coaft, towards Gaza and 

 ^fcalon) although that was the nearefl : but He led them 

 about through the way of the Wilder nejs of the Red Sea. Ex. 13. 17^ 

 There are accordingly two Roads whereby the Ifraelites might 

 have been conduced, through the Way ofThisWildernefs, from 

 Kairo (or Ramefes as it is fuppofed to have been,) to Tihahhi- 

 roth, upon the Banks of the Red Sea. The one is continued 



I <^Α(Λω ** ιηΜί•)^(>ιιπγ αΰτψ (laxaS) ζΐΖ fj^ rff ratiar h ΗΛΙΟΤΠΟΛΕΙ. Jof. Antiq. 1. 2. cap. 4. 

 2 On [The Prii-fl of). Gen. 41. 46. and yo, is rendred by the LXXII Ιίκιχτίκ'ωί. j The 

 Nub'hin Gcograplicr Iccms to call the City, from the Fountain, Ain (Seines) Shims, The Fvuii 

 tdin of the Sun, placing it to the Northward oi Fofiat : ad plagam Foltat feptentr'wnalem'Vrbs 

 Ain Semes rfzcif.i. p. 98. Quod ctiam Co«/?»t>!ti««i L'Empereur ad Tarff/en/t-wi p. 224,. con- 

 firmat,quia pcregrinator ille locum, qucm Ifraelita habitandum acceperint, vocet DOii^''N ?♦>' 

 fotttem Soils. Cellar. Gcogr. Antiq. 1. 4. p. 3^. What the Prophet yercwiab (.^.^. 13.) calls 

 ('UDOri^2) Bethfjemcfl), i. e. The Hotife of the Sun, the LXXII interpret Ηλίίιπλκ. 4 Ηκτ* 

 Ο x^7vmf3t ολίγον BaSaj;®' -jq^ih i^^ πί'Κμον τ Af«Si>tr τοΜν. Herod. Eut. 5- iy8. f Vid. Nor. 

 6. p. 340. - 



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