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MATTHEW OF WESTMINSTER
The flowers of history, especially such as relate to the affairs of Britain. Vol. I. B.C. 4004 to A.D. 1066.
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BOOK III.
THE THIRD AGE OF THE WORLD.
B.C. 1921—1055.
THE CALL OP ABRAHAM—THE BIRTH OP ISAAO AND ISHMAEL —TH E FOUNDATION OP ARGOS BY MACHUS—THE STORY OP ESAU AND JACOB—APIS ARRIVES IN EGYPT—THE HISTORY OP JOSEPH—THE EXODUS—MOSES A CONTEMPORARY OP CECROPS—JOSHUA A CONTEMPORARY OP BACCHUS—BU8IRIS, CADMUS, EUROPA—APOLLO IS BORN—THE JEWISH JUDGES —PARIS CARRIES OPP HELEN—TRIPTOLEMUS—THE MINOTAUR—AMPHION—JEDIPUS—DANAE—PALL OP TROY AND
ARRIVAL OP JEN E AS IN ITALY—BRUTUS, SON OP SYLVIUS, IS BANISHED INTO GREECE—AN ORACLE WARNS HIM TO GO TO ALBION—DESCRIPTION OP ALBION—BRUTUS POUNDS LONDON IN THE TIME OP SAUL—DESCENDANTS OP BRUTUS —DAVID IS KING.
CH. I.—The Travels of Abraham—The chief events of his Life —The Birth and Marriage offsaac—The Birth of Esau and Jacob.
THARE, as has been already said, begat Abraham, Aran, and Nachor. Aran begat Milcah, Lot, and Sarah. When Lot had departed from Sodom, after the destruction of the five cities, he begat these two sons, Moab and Ammon, on his two daughters, having been made drunk by them.
Nachor begat Huz, £uz, and Bathuel, and their mother was Milcah, the daugther of Aran. Bathuel begat Laban and Rebecca.
Abraham had a wife by name Sarah, the daughter1 of Aran his brother. He had also two handmaids, Hagar, an Egyptian, and Cethura. By Sarah he became the father of Isaac ; by Hagar of Ismael ; by Cethura of Madan and Madian. Ismael begat
The Bible speaks of Sarah as the daughter of Terah. Abraham says to Abimelech (Gen. xx. 12), " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife,"
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