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Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
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learned among the Egyptians; from which conversation his virtue
and his reputation became more conspicuous than they had been
before.

2. For whereas the Egyptians were formerly addicted to different
customs, and despised one another's sacred and accustomed rites,
and were very angry one with another on that account, Abram
conferred with each of them, and, confuting the reasonings they
made use of, every one for their own practices, demonstrated that
such reasonings were vain and void of truth: whereupon he was
admired by them in those conferences as a very wise man, and one
of great sagacity, when he discoursed on any subject he
undertook; and this not only in understanding it, but in
persuading other men also to assent to him. He communicated to
them arithmetic, and delivered to them the science of astronomy;
for before Abram came into Egypt they were unacquainted with
those parts of learning; for that science came from the Chaldeans
into Egypt, and from thence to the Greeks also.

3. As soon as Abram was come back into Canaan, he parted the land
between him and Lot, upon account of the tumultuous behavior of
their shepherds, concerning the pastures wherein they should feed
their flocks. However, he gave Lot his option, or leave, to
choose which lands he would take; and he took himself what the
other left, which were the lower grounds at the foot of the
mountains; and he himself dwelt in Hebron, which is a city seven
years more ancient than Tunis of Egypt. But Lot possessed the
land of the plain, and the river Jordan, not far from the city of
Sodom, which was then a fine city, but is now destroyed, by the
will and wrath of God, the cause of which I shall show in its
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