101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

Myths of the Beginning 33
He made breath for their noses to live.
They are his images, who came from his body,
He shines in the sky for their sake;
He made for them plants and cattle, fowl and fish to feed them.
This advice was given by a Ninth Dynasty king (c. 2200 B.C.) to his son. Such
philosophical sentiments would date prior to the Exodus and overlap Israel’s presence
in Egypt, suggesting that such a view may have had a strong literary impact on the
Hebrews. Indeed, the last sentence practically reads like a verse from the particular
section of Genesis we are discussing.