between the exodus and Solomon's temple, only 480 years 
intervened, or, as the Septuagint says, 440 years. This 
statement is plainly an error of writing, because it is contra- 
dicted by the manuscripts of the Jews in the east, by 
Josephus, the Fathers of the Church, by the genealogies and 
the book of Judges itself, according to which we have to read 
there 880 years, as Prichard's "Egyptian Mythology," 
has first demonstrated. Further, Moses was born, whilst 
a new dynasty had begim to reign, as Josephus, Manetho, 
and the Fathers of the Church testify. The latter of whom 
relate that the Israelites left Egypt under Amos, the first 
king of the XYIIIth dynasty ; and in Exod. i., 8, we read : 
" There arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not 
Joseph," i.e., not the son of the preceding king, but the first 
king of a new dynasty, i.e., the XYIIIth. Now, as the last 
kings of this dynasty and their minister were born in 1730, 
1722, and 1693 B.C., and as the XYIIIth dynasty was during 
300 years upon the throne, it is evident that, from the exodus to 
Solomon, really 880 years must have elapsed. The year of the 
exodus, 1866 B.C., thus determined, is confirmed by many other 
planetary configurations, by a transit of Mercury,* and the 
beginning of a new phoenix period of 651 years in 1903 B.C., 
April 7th, under Amos I., the second king of the XYIIIth 
dynasty, particularly by a remarkable conjunction of Saturn 
and Jupiter, in Pisces, in 1951 B.C., three years previous to 
the birth of Moses. 
Moreover, as the Abrahamidae and Israelites ruled them- 
selves, during 430 years, in the land of Goshen, and as 
Manetho and Josephus call them Hyksos, shepherd -kings, 
who came into Egypt in 2081 B.C., it is obvious also, that 
Manetho's shepherd-kings in the XYIth and XYIIth 
dynasties must have been the Abrahamidae and Israelites, 
that Manetho has mentioned not only as successive, but also 
contemporaneous dynasties. 
