Apophis, concerning whom all the authorities agree that he was the patron 
of Joseph, and I believe there is abundant proof of that. Here is the 
countenance of a Shepherd king, who was of the race of Shem, with the 
thick lips of a negro, as clearly developed as in the bust of Thothmes III., 
who was of the race of Ham. I have here also a representation of Queen 
Hatasu, whose nose is strictly aquiline, so that the argument which has been 
offered to us on the cast of features seems to fall to the ground. There 
is only one more point to be noticed. The Chairman considers that, 
as “ in Ephraim we have eighteen generations between Ephraim and Joshua,” 
it is fatal to my contention that the duration of the sojourn in Egypt was 
confined to 215 years. I have carefully studied the passage in 1 Chron. vii., 
where Ephraim’s genealogy is given, and am constrained to the opinion that 
the true reading of that passage must confine the number of descents to eight 
in place of eighteen. Osburn, in his “ Monumental History of Egypt,” has 
adopted the larger number, and speaks of “ this invaluable genealogy as 
settling the question of the duration of the sojourn.” But how does he 
manage this ? Simply by interpreting Ephraim, in v. 20, to mean an 
individual, and the same name, in v. 22, to mean the whole tribe ! Moreover, 
in place of Ephraim being the father of Beriali, as is plainly declared in v. 23, 
he interprets the text of Ezer, i.c. one of his own grandchildren. To my mind , 
such a mode of interpretation must be fatal to all reasonable understanding of 
Scripture. I would therefore reply, with all respect to the Chairman, that 
the argument I have used in my paper in support of the shorter duration of 
the sojourn in Egypt, viz., that if it were otherwise, “ Moses’s mother must 
have given birth to her son 262 years after her father’s death,” seems to be 
conclusive that the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt was only a moiety of 
the 430 years, and must again refer to Dr. Kennicott’s able dissertation 
on this subject. 
The Meeting was then adjourned, 
