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Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
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Verse 23. Haserim, the same as Haseroth. Numbers 33:17.—Gaza belonged to the Philistines. The intermediate country, or the south part of Chanaan, occupied by the Hevites, was seized by invaders from the isle of Cyprus, (Hebrew Caphtorum. Calmet. Genesis 10:14,) or from Egypt, which the Nile intersects, forming many islands, in the Delta. Jeremiah 47:4. The Cappadocians, who dwelt in Asia Minor, on the Euxine sea, were a different nation, and sprung from Japhet. Tirinus.
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