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- ↑ Genesis 25:15
- ↑ 1 Chronicles 1:30
- ↑ Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1979), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2nd, revised ed.), Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, ISBN 9780802837813
- ↑ Rosenmüller, Ernst Friedrich Carl; Morren, Nathaniel (1841), The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Arabia, (Thomas Clark, 1841)
- ↑ Pliny, Hist. Nat. 6:32
- ↑ Job 6:19
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