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Rh The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna and Amalek.

The sons of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah—the sons of Esau by the daughter of Ishmael.—(Gen. xxxvi. Chron. i.)

These were the generations of Shem, after their families and tongues, in their countries and nation; they are called blacks by a Grecian historian—being a people with long, straight hair.

meaning or signification of the following words is found in Dr. Brown's Dictionary of the Bible: "Ethiopia"—blackness; "Ethiopians"—black; "Cush"—Ethiopians—black; "Cushen," "Cushi," "Cuth," "Cuthah "—Ethiopia, blackness.

That portion of the earth which was first peopled, after Adam and Eve had left Paradise, was the land of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopians, on the river Gihon, that went out of the Garden of Eden, "which compasseth the whole land (or country) of Ethiopia," 4003 years before Christ.—(Gen. ii. 13.) The children of Ethiopia were from Adam to Noah, through the lineage of Seth.—(Gen. v.)

The generations of Ham, the son of Noah, an Ethiopian, were Cush, Miriam, Phut and Canaan.—(Gen. x. 1: chap, i.; 2218 years before Christ.) They possessed the land from Syria and Amanus, and the mountains of Libanus, and all its seacoast, and as far as the ocean —holding it as their own.

The Cushites were the descendants of Cush. Calrilet believes that a colony of Cushites settled in the northern part of Assyria, on the Araxes—the present Aras or Araxis—a river which rises near the Euphrates, and falls into the Caspian Sea. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible renders Cush the province of Cuthah. Brown thinks that the Cuthahites, who emigrated into Samaria, were descendants of Cush.—(2 Kings xvii. 24.)

Misraim (Mesraites) founded Egypt; the country was called Mestre, and the inhabitants Mestreans.

Phut possessed himself of Lybia, and gave the name