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Genesis 10:13

The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 10:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And Mizraim begat Ludim. An African tribe, a colony of the Egyptians, like the next seven, which are "nomina non singulorum hominum sed populorum" (Aben Ezra, Michaelis, Rosenmüller, Kalisch, Murphy); probably referred to in connection with Tarshish and Put (), with Kush and Put (), and in connection with Put (; ).

Lud () was Shemitic. And Anamim. Not elsewhere mentioned; the inhabitants of the Delta (Knobel). And Lehabim. Lubim (; ; ); Libyans (); probably the Libyaus west of Egypt (Michaelis, Kalisch, Murphy).

And Naphtuhim. Nephthys, near Pelusium; on the Lake Sirbenis (Bochart); the Libyan town Napata (Kalisch); the people of Middle Egypt (Knobel).

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