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Excerpt from The World's History and Its Makers, Vol. 7 of 10: Foreign Statesmen We have two sources from which to draw material for the life of Moses. We have, first, the Biblical account of the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and their sojourn in the Wilderness, and, second, the narrative of the same events given by Josephus. The chief authority of Josephus was the Bible itself, and, accordingly, his narrative agrees in the main with that given in the Pentateuch. In his account of the early life of Moses, however, Josephus followed an extra-scriptural tradition, but apparently an old one, since it seems to throw light on an otherwise obscure passage in the Book of Numbers. The story given by Josephus of the youth of Moses, briefly told, is this: Pharaoh had been warned by one of the sacred scribes of Egypt that a child was about to be born to the Hebrews, who, if reared, would bring the Egyptian dominion low, and he therefore issued orders to the midwives to put to death every Hebrew male child, as is related in the first chapter of Exodus. The story of the birth of Moses and his preservation in an ark committed to the waters of the Nile is, in the main, the same as that given in the Bible. Now Moses' understanding, Josephus goes on to say, was above his age, and his height when he was but three years old was wonderful, and as for his beauty, there was no one but did greatly marvel at it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.