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and that Nitocris is the famous queen mentioned by Hero- 

 dotus. It may be objected, that Eratosthenes gives us the 

 succession of Theban kings, whereas the Pharaohs of the 

 Mosaic history reigned in Lower Egypt ; but it is remark- 

 able, that the three sovereigns mentioned above are found 

 in Manetho's dynasties among those who reigned at Mem- 

 phis; and it is singular, that these are the only sovereigns 

 (except Menes and his immediate successor) in which the 

 dynasties of Manetho and the catalogue of Eratosthenes 

 agree. All the other names are different. Of course, the 

 predecessors of Apappus, at Thebes and at Memphis, were 

 different; and, thus, we can easily understand how there 

 arose up at Memphis " a new king who knew not Joseph." 

 It would appear, in fact, that Apappus was of a Theban 

 family, and that he succeeded, for some reason or another, 

 to the throne of Lower Egypt. He was only six years old 

 (as we learn from Manetho) when he came to the throne ; 

 and it is natural to suppose, that his chief advisers, as he 

 grew up, were the courtiers who accompanied the young- 

 king from his own country to Memphis, and who knew no- 

 thing of Joseph, and cared nothing for his people. Accord- 

 ingly, when Apappus arrived at manhood, he issued an or- 

 der, that every male child of the Hebrews should be de- 

 stroyed, lest they should grow too numerous for the Egyp- 

 tians ; and, under these circumstances, Moses was born in 

 the twenty-first year of his reign, and was saved by the king's 

 young daughter, a girl about ten years' old. About the 

 sixtieth year of Apappus, Moses was obliged to fly to the 

 land of Midian, for having killed an Egyptian ; and when, 

 at length, the king of Egypt died — "after many days," as it 

 is in the original — Moses returned in the beginning of the 

 reign of Ocaras, before whom were performed those signs 

 and wonders which prepared the way for the departure 

 of the Israelites. On the night of the Passover, the king 

 lost his first-born, perhaps his only son ; and this may be 



