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La cité de dieu

CHAPITRE VII.

SOUS QUELS ROIS MOURUT JOSEPH EN ÉGYPTE.

Sous le règne de Mamitus, douzième roi des Assyriens, et de Plemnaeus, le onzième des Sicyoniens, temps où Argus était encore roi des Argiens, Joseph mourut en Egypte, âgé de cent dix ans. Après sa mort, le peuple de Dieu, qui s’accroissait d’une façon prodigieuse, demeura en Egypte l’espace de cent quarante-cinq ans , assez tranquillement d’abord, tant que vécurent ceux qui avaient vu Joseph; mais depuis, le grand nombre des Hébreux étant devenu suspect aux Egyptiens, ils persécutèrent cruellement cette race et lui firent souffrir mille maux; ce qui n’en diminua pas la fécondité. Pendant ce temps, nul changement de règne en Assyrie ni en Grèce.

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The City of God

Chapter 7.--Who Were Kings When Joseph Died in Egypt.

In the reign of Mamitus, the twelfth king of Assyria, and Plemnaeus, the eleventh of Sicyon, while Argus still reigned over the Argives, Joseph died in Egypt a hundred and ten years old. After his death, the people of God, increasing wonderfully, remained in Egypt a hundred and forty-five years, in tranquillity at first, until those who knew Joseph were dead. Afterward, through envy of their increase, and the suspicion that they would at length gain their freedom, they were oppressed with persecutions and the labors of intolerable servitude, amid which, however, they still grew, being multiplied with God-given fertility. During this period the same kingdoms continued in Assyria and Greece.