dingly, both the Testament of Benjamin, sect. 2, p. 401, and Philo
de Nominum Mutatione, p. 1059, write the name Benjamin, but explain it
not the son of the right hand, but the son of days.

BOOK 2 FOOTNOTES

[1] We may here observe, that in correspondence to Joseph's second
dream, which implied that his mother, who was then alive, as well as his
father, should come and bow down to him, Josephus represents her here
as still alive after she was dead, for the decorum of the dream that
foretold it, as the interpretation of the dream does also in all our
copies, Genesis 37:10.

[2] The Septuagint have twenty pieces of gold; the Testament of Gad
thirty; the Hebrew and Samaritan twenty of silver; and the vulgar Latin
thirty. What was the true number and true sum cannot therefore now be
known.

[3] That is, bought it for Pharaoh at a very low price.

[4] This Potiphar, or, as Josephus, Petephres, who was now a priest of
On, or Heliopolis, is the same name in Josephus, and perhaps in Moses
also, with him who is before called head cook or captain of the guard,
and to whom Joseph was sold. See Genesis 37:36; 39:1, with 41:50. They
are also affirmed to be one and the same person in the Testament of
Joseph, sect. 18, for he is there said to have married the daughter
of his master and mistress. Nor is this a notion peculiar to that
Testament, but, as Dr. Bernard confesses, note on Antiq. B. II. ch.
4. sect. 1, common to Josephus, to the Septuagint interpreters, and to
other learned Jews of old time.

[5] This entire ignorance of the Egyptians of these years of famine
before they came, told us before, as well as here, ch. 5. sect. 7, by
Josephus, seems to me almost incredible. It is in no other copy that I
know of.

[6] The reason why Symeon might be selected out of the rest for Joseph's
prisoner, is plain in the Testament of Symeon, viz. that he was one
of the bitterest of all Joseph's brethren against him, sect. 2; which
appears also in part by the Testament of Zabulon, sect. 3.

[7] The coherence seems to me to show that the negative particle is
here wanting, which I have supplied in brackets, and I wonder none have
hitherto suspected that it ought to be supplied.

[8] Of the precious balsam of Judea, and the turpentine, see the note on
Antiq. B. VIII. ch. 6. sect. 6.

[9] This oration seems to me too large, and too unusual a digression, to
have been composed by Judas on this occasion. It seems to me a speech o