OLD TESTAMENT

Tobit 3:7

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The same day it happened to Sarah the daughter of Raguel in Ecbatana of Media, that she also was reproached by her father’s maidservants;

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Verse 7. Rages. In the Greek it is Ecbatana which was also called Rages. For there were two cities in Media of name of Rages: Raguel dwelt in one of them and Gabelus in the other. Challoner. Menochius.—Profane authors mention a Rages in the vicinity of Ecbatana. Diod. Bib. 19.—It may here denote the province. Worthington.

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