OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 10:5

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Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

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Verse 5. The islands. So the Hebrews called all the remote countries, to which they went by ships to Judea, as Greece, Italy, Spain, and so forth ( Challoner.) whether they were surrounded with water or not. Jeremiah 25:22. Menochius.

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