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16 of Phutites to its inhabitants. In the country of the Moors, there is a river of this name.

Canaan, the fourth son of Ham, inhabited the land now called Judea; and following the customs of the times, named it from himself, Canaan.

The sons of Cush were Seba, Habilah, Sabtah, Raamah, Sabtechah and Nimrod.—(Gen. x.)

Sheba, or Seba. There were several of this name:—1. The son of Cush, who gave his name to a country in Arabia.—(Gen. x. 7: Ps. Ixxii. 10.) 2. The grandson of Cush.—(Gen. x. 7.) 3. The son of Joktan.—(Gen. x. 29: Gen. xviii.) 4. The grandson of Abraham.—(Gen. xxv. 3.) All these seem to have taken up their residence in Arabia, or Abyssinia in Africa, and perhaps most of them in the south part of Arabia and Ethiopia, near the Red Sea. One or more of these Shebas gave name to the country whose queen came to visit Solomon, bringing him large presents of gold, spices and precious stones. This is also the name of a famous well, sometimes called Sheba, and sometimes Beersheba.—(Gen. xxvi. 33.)

Havilah (Evilas,) was the father of the Evileans, who are called Getuti, and inhabited Arabia, near the Red Sea.

Sabtah (Sabathes,) was the founder of the Sabathens, a nation now called by the Greeks, Astaborans, who settled in Arabia, near the Persian Gulf.

The Sabactens, descendants of Sabtechah, (Sabactas,) settled likewise in Arabia, upon the borders of the Red Sea; and the Ragmeans, the descendants of Raaman, (Ragmus,) settled in Ethiopia.

Nimrod, the son of Cush, an Ethiopian, was a mighty one upon the earth. He built Babel, Erech, and Accad Calneh, and founded the Babylonian Empire, building Babylon, his capital, in the land of Shinar, or Chaldea, also known as the Land of Nimrod.—(Gen. x.: Micah v. 6.)

Raamah had two sons; one of whom, Judasas, settled the Judadeans, a western nation of Ethiopians.

The sons of Misraim, eight in number, possessed the country from Gaza to Egypt, which took its name from Philestim, one of them. A part of that country was called Palestine by the Greeks.