And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into
Egypt,
&c.] To the city of Heliopolis; for there it was that Abram
had his abode, as Eupolemus F18 says, when upon the famine
he went into Egypt, and where he conversed with the Egyptian
priests, and taught them astrology, and other things belonging to
it; and of this descent of Abram into Egypt, and teaching
astrology, Artapanus F19, another Heathen writer, speaks;
Abram, he says, having learned the science of astrology, went
first into Phoenicia and taught it the Phoenicians, and
afterwards went into Egypt, and taught it there.
[The] Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very
fair;
Abram knew that Sarai was a fair woman; but in the eyes of the
Egyptians she was very fair, exceeding fair, they not being used
to see very beautiful women.