QVEST. XX. How long Abraham stayed in Egypt.

COncerning the time of Abrahams being in Egypt. 1: Neither is it true, as Eusebius citeth out of one Atrabanus, that he aboad there twenty yeares: seeing Abraham had dwelt but ten yeares in Canaan,* when Hagar was given him, and Ismael borne, Gen. 16. 2. Neither was Abraham so long conversant in Egypt, and that by the leave of Pharao, as that he did teach them the liberall sciences, as Astrologie, Page  124 and such like, as Iosephus thinketh, lib. 1. antiquit. But it is most like they learned it afterward by Iacob, that lived there seventeene yeares: or of Ioseph, that was their governour 80. yeares. 3. Wherefore at this time it is probable that Abraham stayed not long in Egypt, no not a yeare: for presently after that Pharao was plagued of God, he delivered Sarai, and sent away Abraham, giving him guides to see him safely conveyed.