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8 : N O A H
Noah affirms
Shem’s
territory as
essentially
Asia.
Cf. 7:11
Yahuah has
a permanent
Holy of Holies
on Earth in
the land of
the Garden
of Eden. It
continues to
this day.
D I V I D E S
Yahuah dwell in the dwelling
of Shem.” 19 And he knew
that the Garden of Eden is the
holy of holies, and the dwelling
of Yahuah, and Mount Sinai
the centre of the desert, and
Mount Zion--the centre of the
navel of the earth: these three
were created as holy places
In the ancient
perspective facing each other. 20 And he
the “centre of
the navel of blessed the El of Elohim, who
the earth” is
not Israel, it had put the word of Yahuah
is the North
Pole. These into his mouth, and Yahuah
directions
indicate a for evermore. 21 And he
worldwide
knowledge knew that a blessed portion
from Enoch’s and a blessing had come to
journeys
flown by Shem and his sons unto the
angels.
for ever--the
These three generations
holy places
fall within whole land of Eden and the
Shem’s lot.
whole land of the Red Sea,
? Cyprus/
Crete and the whole land of the
logically.
The ancient east, and India, and on the
Versions
identify Red Sea and the mountains
Caphtor with thereof, and all the land of
Cappadocia,
Turkey. Bashan, and all the land of
Cf. Am. 9:7
origin of Lebanon and the islands of
Philistines.
Cf. Gn. Kaftûr, and all the mountains
10:13-14
i. e. Senir (Dt. of Sanîr and ’Amânâ, and
3:9; Ez. 27:5)
= Hermon. the mountains of Asshur in
? Mt. Amanus the north, and all the land of
Syria.
i. e. Media; Elam, Asshur, and Bâbêl, and
cf. 10:35.
Taken by Sûsân and Mâ‘dâi and all
Madai, son of
Japheth. the mountains of Ararat, and
Directions all the region beyond the sea,
go East
from Israel which is beyond the mountains
to Assyria
to Persia to of Asshur towards the north, a
Himalayas to
sea beyond blessed and spacious land, and
including the
isles of the all that is in it is very good.
Far East. 22 And for Ham came forth
Arara cf. 9:5.
T H E
E A R T H
receives
the second portion, beyond Ham
a massive
from
the Gihon towards the south territory
Africa all the
around
to the right of the Garden, way
the world in
and it extendeth towards the the Southern
Hemisphere
south and it extendeth to all or hot lands.
the mountains of fire, and it The Gihon
surrounds
extendeth towards the west to all of Africa
thus gives
the sea of ’Atêl and it extendeth no direction
except Ham
towards the west till it reacheth cannot enter
the sea of Mâ’ûk -- that (sea) Shem’s
already
This
into which †everything which allotted.
must be
is not destroyed descendeth†. West.
i.e. Gunung
23 And it goeth forth towards Gunung Api,
the north to the limits of “Mountains
of Fire.”
Gâdîr, and it goeth forth to the Indonesia’s
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coast of the waters of the sea volcanoes.
Atel is a
to the waters of the great sea “satirical
term for
till it draweth near to the river intellectual”
Bengali. It
Gihon, and goeth along the inis the
Indian
river Gihon till it reacheth the Ocean.
i. e. the S.
right of the Garden of Eden. Atlantic.
Also spelled
24 And this is the land which Ma’kaka/
Makaka is
came forth for Ham as the a town in S.
portion which he was to occupy Africa.
? The great
for ever for himself and his ocean
in
sons unto their generations for stream
the extreme
ever. 25 And for Japheth came west.
i. e. Cadiz,
forth the third portion beyond Spain.
the river Tînâ to the north of Japheth’s
portion
the outflow of its waters, and (Europe and
Northern
it extendeth north-easterly to Hemisphere
the whole region of Gog and except Asia).
e. the rivers
to all the country east thereof. i.Don
and
26 And it extendeth northerly Volga.Divides
Europe and
to this
to the north, and it extendeth to Asia
day.
the mountains of Qêlt towards Josephus
identifies
the north, and towards the sea Gog with the
of Mâ’ûk, and it goeth forth to Scythians.
Qêlt =
probably the
the east of Gâdîr as far as
Celts who
originated in
the Alps.
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