c. AD 97

J. Ap. 2.21

Against Apion 2.21

Author
Flavius Josephus
Translator
William Whiston

Against Apion

2.21

Flavius Josephus

translated by William Whiston

21for he says, that “when the Jews had travelled a six days’ journey, they had buboes in their groins: and that on this account it was that they rested on the seventh day, as having got safely to that country which is now called Judea; that then they preserved the language of the Egyptians, and called that day the Sabbath, for that malady of buboes in their groin was named Sabbatosis by the Egyptians.”