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Work: Biblical Antiquities of Pseudo-Philo
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Biblical Antiquities — M. R. James 1917, retained OCR
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BIRTH OF MOSES. IX-X 103 pine-tree and set the ark on the edge of the river. 13. Now the boy was born in the covenant of God and in the covenant of his flesh. 14. And it came to pass, when they cast him out, all the elders gathered together and chode with Amram saying : Are not these the words which we spake saying : " It is better for us to die childless than that our fruit should be cast into the water?" And when they said so, Amram hearkened not to them. 15. But the daughter of Pharao came down to wash in the river according as she had seen in a dream, and her maids saw the ark, and she sen…
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- Biblical Antiquities — M. R. James 1917, retained OCR
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- Source language
- eng
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- Complete identified historical English edition body from title and contents through introduction, translation, appendices and final index p.280. Source translation starts at printed p.75 / physical object 78, including the complete narrative through the historical ending; final publisher adverts and library stamps/covers omitted. Includes historical conjectures and uncertainty as explicitly printed by James; no modern correction. Reader uses verified physical scan-page navigation; source OCR errors are visible and disclosed.
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Recorded provenance: Exact OCR LINE/WORD text from retained DjVu XML, joined with LF, retained in identified page order. Exact scan-data included leaf order verifies physical object IDs. No invented historical chapter labels, conjectural OCR correction or translation. Complete identified historical English edition body from title and contents through introduction, translation, appendices and final index p.280. Source translation starts at printed p.75 / physical object 78, including the complete narrative through the historical ending; final publisher adverts and library stamps/covers omitted. Includes historical conjectures and uncertainty as explicitly printed by James; no modern correction. Reader uses verified physical scan-page navigation; source OCR errors are visible and disclosed.
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