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JOSEPHUS·ANTIQUITIES·BOOK 2

Antiquities of the Jews, Book 2

16 CHAPTERS · 75 SECTIONS

  1. 2.1How Esau And Jacob, Isaac's Sons Divided Their Habitation; And Esau Possessed Idumea And Jacob Canaan.
  2. 2.2How Joseph, The Youngest Of Jacob's Sons, Was Envied By His Brethren, When Certain Dreams Had Foreshown His Future Happiness.
  3. 2.3How Joseph Was Thus Sold By His Brethren Into Egypt, By Reason Of Their Hatred To Him; And How He There Grew Famous And Illustrious And Had His Brethren Under His Power.
  4. 2.4Concerning The Signal Chastity Of Joseph.
  5. 2.5What Things Befell Joseph In Prison.
  6. 2.6How Joseph When He Was Become Famous In Egypt, Had His Brethren In Subjection.
  7. 2.7The Removal Of Joseph's Father With All His Family, To Him, On Account Of The Famine.
  8. 2.8Of The Death Of Jacob And Joseph.
  9. 2.9Concerning The Afflictions That Befell The Hebrews In Egypt, During Four Hundred Years. 16
  10. 2.10How Moses Made War With The Ethiopians.
  11. 2.11How Moses Fled Out Of Egypt Into Midian.
  12. 2.12Concerning The Burning Bush And The Rod Of Moses.
  13. 2.13How Moses And Aaron Returned Into Egypt To Pharaoh.
  14. 2.14Concerning The Ten Plagues Which Came Upon The Egyptians.
  15. 2.15How The Hebrews Under The Conduct Of Moses Left Egypt.
  16. 2.16How The Sea Was Divided Asunder For The Hebrews, When They Were Pursued By The Egyptians, And So Gave Them An Opportunity Of Escaping From Them.

The Works of Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston (1737). Public domain. Text prepared from the Project Gutenberg transcriptions, ebooks 2848, 2850, 2849 and 2846.