Both names of God, El and Jehovah, occur in these tablets; both names being in use

therefore before the time of Moses.

Thothmes III mentions a town called Bet Jah, "The House of Jehovah." In other

inscriptions he speaks of places named Jacob-el and Joseph-el!

The link between Assyria and Egypt established by these letters explains the words of

Isa. 52: 4: "My people went down to Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed

them without cause."

To set out the details of the tablets further would be tedious and unnecessary. We are

grateful for their testimony which shows to the world at large the chronological and

geographical faithfulness of the O. T. records.

The Tell-el-Amarna Tablets noticed in our last paper linked the Assyrian and

Babylonian language with Egypt, and so render the transition to the Egyptian rooms the

Wall Case 175, which is on the left immediately we enter the room, contains a number

of typical sun-dried bricks. It has been said that the art of brick-making was introduced

into Egypt from the Southern Babylonia, where the clay is eminently suitable for the

purpose. The Nile mud was not so suitable, and it was found necessary to mix chopped

straw, reed, hair, etc., with the mud in order to bind it together. The pieces of straw can

be clearly seen in many of these specimens--straw chopped at the period when Israel was

in Egypt, if not actually the work of their hands, and still retaining after these

millenniums a yellow tinge.

No. 14 is of interest inasmuch as it is stamped with the name of Rameses 2:, the

Pharaoh of the oppression. We shall have better opportunity of considering the various

Pharaohs when we are reviewing the exhibits in the Egyptian Galleries. In Wall Cases

182-187 we find a large collection of toilet objects; razors, mirrors, combs, tweezers,

hair pins, tubes for eye paint, and handles of fans, making a vivid impression on the mind

of the close parallel that must have existed in the home life of these ancient folk and that

of our own times. A reference to "shaving" it will be remembered comes in Gen. 41: 14;

this is perfectly in accord with the times. Joseph as a Hebrew would have a beard,

especially as he was in prison. No Egyptian was allowed to have a beard except the

Pharaoh, or his Queen. There were always false beards, fastened to the chin by a band

running up over the head. This is plainly seen on many of the heads of the statues in the