40. these are the ten tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmananser the king of the Assyrians led away captive, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land.
41. But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind lived,
42. that they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
43. And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates.
44. For the Most High then wrought signs for them, and stayed the springs of the River, till they were passed over.
45. For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arzareth.
46. Then lived they there until the latter time; and now when they begin to come again,