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says it occurred in the seventh year of Cam-
                                         byses, on the night of the seventeenth and
                                         eighteenth of the Egyptian month Phamenoth.
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                                         PingrA and Oppolzer fix the date July 16th,
                                         533 B.C. Thus are the relations of the chronolo-
                                         gies of Jews and Egyptians established by
                                         these explorations.
                                            FOOTNOTES:
                                            [1] These ancient dates are uncertain.
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