134 HORSES IN GENESIS 



lower Egypt. Manetho is prejudiced ; bi 

 just as in modern Western America where tl 

 sheep herder is rated among cattle men < 

 something rather lower than a dog, it is amusir 

 to see how the poet in Genesis admits th; 

 shepherds were an abomination in the eyes ( 

 the Egyptians. If one dates Abraham's vis 

 to Egypt in the twenty-first instead of tl 

 nineteenth century b.c. old Manetho and tl 

 Hebrew poet are perfectly agreed as to tl 

 Hyksos-Israelite invasion. 



The Genesis narrative shows the insidioi 

 way in which the children of Israel drifte 

 down into Egypt, then how they made then 

 selves agreeable as office holders, and by intrc 

 ducing frogs, flies, lice, cattle sickness and oth( 

 improvements until at last the Egyptiai 

 waxed desperate and ran them out of tl 

 country. Manetho says that these Hyksc 

 people occupied lower Egypt east of the Ni 

 from Memphis to the sea, and later on estal 

 lished a dynasty with six Kings in the succe 

 sion. After five centuries the Egyptians con 

 bined under the Thebaid Kings of upp( 

 Egypt, and drove the Hyksos across the Dese: 

 of Sin into Palestine. It is quite possible thi 

 in Genesis, and Manetho 's History we have tl 

 two sides of one story, and that it was tl 



