15 P h ilis t in e s =PAeLiSTflM, and the C a p h to r s .= KaPATioRIM. And Canaan
= KNAAN engendered S id on = TsIDoN his. first born, and K h e th = KAeTl
16 and the J e b n s ia n = IBUSI, and the Am o r ian = AMoRI, and the Girgasian
17 —GiRGaSI, And the Kh u ian = K/VUI, and the A c c r ia n = ARKI, and the
18 Sinian S IN I, — and the Arad ian = ARUaDI, and the S im y r ia n = TsiMRl
19 and the H am a th ian — KAaMaTG: (Afterwards the families of the Kanaanian
—-KNAANI (were) spread abroad.) And the boundary of the Kanaanian =
KNAANI (had been) from S id on == TsIDoN, towards- Gerar, even to A&za
(round) by Sodom, and Aâmora, and Admah, and Tseboim, as far as SasM.
20 These (the) affiliations of KAaM sw a r th y ra c e s, after their families, aftet
21 their tongues, in their countries, in their nations. And to SAeM y e llow races
also (there was) issue ! he (is) the father of all (the) affiliations of Jthe)
22 Y o n d e r e r=Ê B eR , brother of IaPAeTi the elder. Affiliations of (3AeM yellow
r a c e s. E lym a is = ÆIBaM, and A s sy r ia = ASAIJR, and C h aldæan Orfa =
23 ARPAa-KaSD, and L yd ia = LUD, and A ram æa"=pARaM ; — and (the) affiliations
of Aramsea = ARaM ; A u s it is = dUTs, and H û leh ,— KABX, and
24 Gatara §= GeTiuR, and M a so n ite s = MaS. And Chaldæan Orfa = ARPAa-
KaSD engendered S a la ch a ? = SAeLaKA; and S a la ch a = SAeLaKA engendered
25 (the) Y on d e r e r = ÊBeR. And unto (the) Y on d e r e r = ÊBeR were born two
affiliations; the name of one (was) (a) S p lit = PeLeG (because in his days th^J
earth was sp lit), and (the) name of his brother (was) J o k tà n = IoKTaN.
26 And J o k tà n = IoKTaN engendered (the) Allumaæ o tæ =ALMUDàD, and (the)
S a la p e n i = SAeLePA, and H ad ram àut = KAaTsaRaMUTi, and (th e ) ' Jera-
27 chæ i — IeRaKA, — and (Cape) Hadoramum = HaDURaM, and Sanaa =
28 AUZAL, and (the) Dhu’-1-Kalâah = DiKLeH, And (the) A b a litæ = âBBal,
29 and M a la i (el-Khyfef) = ABIMAL, and Sàb a (Màreb) = SaBA, — and Ofor
AUPAiR, and (the) Beni-Kholàn=KATJILeH, and (the) Beni-Jobàh = ITJBaB.
30 All these (are) affiliations of [Qahlàn\ J ok tân = IoKTaN;— and their dwelling
(was) from Zames M o n s := MeSAA, towards Mount Z a f f à r = SèPAaRaH,
3) mountain of the East (or m ountain opposite?}.* These (are) (the) affiliations
of SAeM y e llow r a c e s , after their families, after their tongues, in their lands,
32 after their nations. Such (are the) families of (the) sons of Ce s s a t i o n s NuKA,
after their generations, in their nations ; and from these were dispersed Ha-GOIM
= the h o rd e s (the peoples) on the earth after the deluge.
(Here ends the document.)
The authors cannot but hope, after the evidences herein accumulated, that the impartial
reader now agrees with them and with Rosellini, that “ la serie dei nomi de’ discendenti di
Nob è una vera ricenzione geografica delle varie parti della terra ;’’ so far as the world’s
surface was known to the writer of Xth Genesis.
Yiewed by itself, as a document from all others distinct, incorporated by the Eldraic
schooFinto the canonical Hebrew writings, Xth Genesis is simply an ethnic chorograph;
wherein three “ Types of Mankind,” generically classified as the red, yellow, and white,
are mapped out—- “ after their families, after thei#1 tongues, in their countries, in their
* Thé word here is the same KDJI upon which the analysis of De Longpérier was, referred to under, ASUR
\ubi supra, p. 534],
nations.” In every instance where monumental or written history has enabled us to check
the writer’s system, his accuracy has been vindicated. In not a few cases exactitudes, so
minute as to be relatively marvellous, have been exhibited.
Our genealogical table displays the order in which this compiler supposed the different
colonies, or affiliations, issued from each of the three parental stems. Our retranslation of
Xth Genesis, by substituting, as far as possible, modern names for the same nations and
countries, has enabled us to comprehend his literal meaning more clearly than when reading
Hebraical appellatives now mostly obsolete, no less than veiled by an ancient and foreign
mode of, spelling them. And lastly, our transfer and redistribution of these seventy-nine
cognomina, in a map, fix, within a few degrees of latitude and longitude, the boundary
of this writer’s geographical circumference; and thus indicate the horizon, so to say, of
all the knowledge his “ gazetteer ” contains.
Learned and orthodox works have frequently defined this geography before; and with
limitations of area quite as restricted as ours, as regards the sum total of terrestrial superficies.
Because, if we have cut off, as not alluded to in Xth Genesis, the whole of Nubia
above Egypt, and all Africa lying south of the northern limit of the Sahara deserts, our
map, on the other hand, prolongs the writer’s knowledge through Barbary, from Egypt to
the Pillars of Hercules. Thus, upon the whole, our restoration is more expensive than
that of Volney.
No savant whose opinion is worthy of respectful attention, but excludes all knowledge,
on the part of the writer of Xth Genesis, of any portion of Europe, except the coasts of
the Peloponnesus and of Thracia. All reasonable commentators, by cutting off “ Scythia ”
at a line, drawn from the north-eastern apex of the Black Sea to the Caspian, deny that
Xth Genesis includes Russian A d a ; while none extend the geography of that document
beyond a line drawn from the Caspian Sea to the mouth of the Indus, as an extreme; a
frontier, to our view, quite unjustifiable, and by far too distant from a Chaldcean centre-
point.
In consequence, we all agree that Hindostan and its mixed populations; China with her
immense Mongol and Tartar hordes; and the Islands of the Indian Ocean; are entirely
excluded from Xth Genesis. The lands of Malayana, Oceanica, Australasia, and the Pacific,
having been discovered within the last threS centuries, were of course unknown to the
school of Esdras twenty-three hundred years ago. So was also the “ New World —the
vast American; continent and its Islands, prior to the voyages of Columbus, and his successors.
The most rigid orthodoxy, therefore, concedes that, upon Finnish, Samo'ide, Ton-
gousian, Tartar, Mongol, Malay, Polynesian, Esquimaux, American, and many other races,
the writer of Xth Genesis is absolutely silent; that, every one of these peoples lay very
far beyond the utmost area demonstrable through his chorography.
Nothing “ heretical,” then, accrues from our simple demonstration of the truth of that
which the educated of all Christendom now-a-days insist upon.
But, the orthodox will even allow a little more. Beginning at the Cape of Good Hope,
they will admit, that -the compiler of Xth Genesis does not embrace that region, nor its
inhabitants, the Bosjesmans, Hottentots, Kaffres, and Foolahs, in this ethnic geography.
They will voluntarily renounce also, in the name of this genesiacal writer, acquaintance with
any part of Africa more austral than a line drawn athwart its continent from Senegal on the
Western to Cape Gardafui on the eastern or Abyssinian coast. Thus much, we opine, no
one “ nisi imperitus can hesitate to grant.
Upon reflection, ifi*view of the impassabilities of the immense Sahara desert (first, geologically,
when it was an inland sea; and'secondly, zoologically, until the camel was in tr o duced
and propagated in Barbary, after the first century, b . c.), all scholars, we presume, will
coincide with our limitation; and, by way of compensation for the additional knowledge
which our analyses have Secured for the author of Xth Genesis, along Berberia, Barbary,
they.will not insist upon his acquaintance with anything south of the northern edge of the
Sahara: — the oases of S6ewah, El-Kh&rgheh, &c., remaining,, between orthodox readings
and ours, “ sub judice.”