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Genesis 10: Where have you gone Sabteca?
After the flood, the children of Noah begin to spread out and inhabit the known world. Chapter 10 lists the names of the descendants of each son. These lists read like a who’s who from the ancient world. Based on the children’s names, we can deduce that Yafet’s descendants inhabited Europe, Cham’s descendants inhabited Africa and the Levant and Shem’s children inhabited the Middle East. What’s fascinating about this chapter is not the names that we recognize, but those we do not. The Torah includes well-known names like Egypt, Kush, and Ashkenaz, even Phut appears later in Jeremiah (46:9) and…
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