3d. The coast of Abyssinia is dotted red and yellow, because some
KTJSAtïe«, besides the Joktanide, «TTBaL, may have crossed the Red
gea. The latter lent his name | to the Avalites Sinus, &c., on the
African continent.
Section D . — T h e X t h C h a p t e r o e G e n e s i s m o d e r n i z e d , in i t s
N o m e n c l a t u r e , t o d i s p l a y , p o p u l a r l y a n d i n m o d e r n E n g l i s h ,
THE MEANING OE ITS ANCIENT WRITER.
Verse
1 Now these (are) the TioLDTt-BNI-NuBA, (generations of the sons of C e s sa
t io n ) ; SAeM y e llow ra c e s, KAaM sw a r th y r a c e s , and IaPeTi w h ite
2 ra c e s: unto them (were) sons after the deluge.* (The) affiliations of IaPeTi
w h ite r a c e s ; — Cr im eâ = GoMeR, and C au ca su s|jj| MaGUG, and Media
= MeDI, and Io n ia == IUN, and P o n tu s = TiuBaL, and M o sch ia =
3 MeSAeK, and T h ra c e = TilRaS. And (the) affiliations of Crimea ==:,
GoMeR;— E u x in e = ASKiNaZ, and P a p h la g o n ia ®RIPAaTtf, and A rm en ia -
4 = TfoGaRMaH. And (the) affiliations of Io n ia = IUN; — Morea = ALISaH,
and T a r sou s === TaRSIS, C yp r io t s = KiTHM, and R h od ian s = RoDaNIM.
5 By these were dispersed the settlements of Ha-GOIM th e (w h ite ba rb a r ian )
hordes in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their
6 nations. And (the) affiliations of KAaM sw a r th y r a c e s ; Dark A r a b ia f =
KUSA, and E g y p tia n s == MiTsRIM, and B a rb a r y = PAUTA, and Canaan =
7 KNâAN. And (the) affiliations of Dark A rab ia = KUSA;—- A sa b ia = SeBA,
and B e n i-K h à led = KAaUILaH, and S a p h th a -m e t r o p o lis == SaBTiaH, and
Rumss = RâAMaH, and S a b a tic a -r e g io = SaBTtfaKA: and (the) affiliations
8 of Rumss == RâAMaH; Marsuaba = SAeBA, and D ad en a = DeDaN. And
Dark A r a b ia == KUSA engendered (th e A s sy r ia n H e r cu le s? ) = NeM-RuD,
9 he first began to be mighty upon earth. He was a great landed-proprietor'
before (the face of) IeHOuaH; whence the saying, like NeM-RuD, (a) great
10 landed-proprietor before (the face of) IeHOuaH.J And (the) commencement of his
realm, B a b y lo n = BaBeL, and E r e ch = AReK, and A c c a d = AKaD, and
11 Chal ne = KaLNeH in the land of M e s o p o tam ia =#;;SAiNdAR. Out of that
land he (Nimrod) went forth [to] A s sy r ia ==ASAUR, and bnilded N in e v e h =
12 NINUeH, and Rehoboth-L'ton = ReKAoBoTi-dIR, and Oalah = KaT.aKA, —
and Res en = ReSeN between N in e v eh = NINUeH and between Calah = KaLaKA
13 (he), she (Nineveh?) the great city). And (the) E g y p tia n s = MiTsRIM engendered
the A it-O lo ti == LUDIM, and the Ammonians = ANaMIM, and the L ib y an s
II = LeHaBIM, and the N e fo u s e h s = NiPAaiTtuKAIM,— and the P h a r u s ii =
PAaTiuRiSIM, ‘ and the S h illo u h s = KSAiLouKAIM ont of whom issued
N o translation is intended by the terms yellow, swarthy, and white races. We use them merely t o
evolve the ethnological tripartite classification pf the writer.
Thark Arabia serves for the dark C u s h it e (red -Himydr) Arahs.
t The mention of IeHOuaH makes this copy of the Ethnic Chart Jehovistic, and consequently recent, by every
rule of exegesis. ( P a r k e r ' s Be WdU, II., pp. 77-145.)
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