The statements in the Antiquities are these: ‘A/the scripture laid up in the Temple (ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἀνακειμένη γραφή) declares that God foretold to Moses that water would thus spring forth from the rock’ (Ant. 3.1.7, or 3.38, referring to Exod. 17:6). ‘Such, then, is the constitution that Moses left; he also handed over the laws written forty years before.… Then he recited to them a poem in hexameter verse, which he has also left behind him in a/the book kept in the Temple (ἐν βίβλῳ ἐν