offer our honor and thanksgiving." For which doctrines,
when the Chaldeans, and other people of Mesopotamia, raised a tumult
against him, he thought fit to leave that country; and at the command
and by the assistance of God, he came and lived in the land of Canaan.
And when he was there settled, he built an altar, and performed a
sacrifice to God.

2. Berosus mentions our father Abram without naming him, when he says
thus: "In the tenth generation after the Flood, there was among the
Chaldeans a man righteous and great, and skillful in the celestial
science." But Hecatseus does more than barely mention him; for he
composed, and left behind him, a book concerning him. And Nicolaus of
Damascus, in the fourth book of his History, says thus: "Abram reigned
at Damascus, being a foreigner, who came with an army out of the land
above Babylon, called the land of the Chaldeans: but, after a long time,
he got him up, and removed from that country also, with his people, and
went into the land then called the land of Canaan, but now the land of
Judea, and this when his posterity were become a multitude; as to which
posterity of his, we relate their history in another work. Now the name
of Abram is even still famous in the country of Damascus; and there is
shown a village named from him, The Habitation of Abram."

CHAPTER 8. That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence
Into Egypt; And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back
Again.

1. Now, after this, when a famine had invaded the land of Canaan, and
Abram had discovered that the Egyptians were in a flourishing condition,
he was disposed to go down to them, both to partake of the plenty they
enjoyed, and to become an auditor of their priests, and to know what
they said concerning the gods; designing either to follow them, if they
had better notions than he, or to convert them into a better way, if
his own notions proved the truest. Now, seeing he was to take Sarai
with him, and was afraid of the madness of the Egyptians with regard
to women, lest the king should kill him on occasion of his wife's great
beauty, he contrived this device:--he pretended to be her brother, and
directed her in a dissembling way to pretend the same, for he said
it would be for their benefit. Now, as soon as he came into Egypt, it
happened to Abram as he supposed it would; for the fame of his wife's
beauty was greatly talked of; for which reason Pharaoh, the king of
Eg