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forty, and it is in ruins, its 13 traces being preserved only between Asshur and Babylon. And it was 533.

But Peleg, having become 130 years old, begat Reu, and after this he lived 209 years, and he died, having lived in all 339 years. Therefore, from Adam until the flood there are 2262 years, and from the flood until the confusion of the tower-building and the death of Peleg, which is division, 536 years. And thus occurs the division or diaspora of the sons of Noah and of those born from them; wherefore they were also called 'meropes' both from the divided speech and from the division of the earth. Now Shem begat Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud, and Ham begat Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan, and Japheth begat Gomer and Magog and Thiras and Javan and Jectan and Tubal and Meshech and Madai, from whom the Medes came, and having prevailed over the Babylonians, the country was called Media, properly and eponymously.

So after the confusion and the destruction of the tower, the three sons of Noah summoned all those who were descended from them, and they gave to them a written distribution of the places, 14 which they had received from their father Noah, and they assign by lot to each, and to the tribes and families of each, a place and regions and countries and islands and rivers according to the underlying account, and they allot to the firstborn son of Noah, Shem, from Persia and Bactria as far as India and Rhinocorura the parts towards the east, and to Ham, from Rhinocorura as far as Gadeira the parts towards the south, and to Japheth, from Media as far as Gadeira the parts towards the north. The lands allotted to Shem are these: Persia, Bactriana, Hyrcania, Babylonia, Cordyaea, Assyria, Mesopotamia, ancient Arabia, Elymais, India, Arabia Felix, Coele-Syria, Commagene and all Phoenicia and the river Euphrates; and to Ham: Egypt, Ethiopia which looks toward the Indians, another Ethiopia, whence proceeds the river of the Ethiopians, facing the Red Sea towards the east, Thebais, Libya which extends as far as Cyrene, Marmaris, Syrtis, another Libya, Numidia, Massyris, Mauritania which is opposite Gadeira; and in the north along the sea he has Cilicia, 15 Pamphylia, Pisidia, Mysia, Lycaonia, Phrygia, Camalia, Lycia, Caria, Lydia, another Mysia, the Troad, Aeolis, Bithynia, ancient Phrygia, and likewise the islands Sardinia, Crete, Cyprus, and the river Geon, which is also called the Nile; and to Japheth: Media, Albania, Armenia both lesser and greater, Cappadocia, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Colchis, Bosporus, Maeotis, Derbe, Sarmatis, Taurianis, Bastarnis, Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Dalmatia, Molosse, Thessaly, Locris, Boeotia, Aetolia, Attica, Achaia, Pellene, which is called the Peloponnese, Arcadia, Epeirotis, Illyris, Lychnitis, Adriace, from which is the Adriatic sea; and he also has the islands Britannia, Sicily, Euboea, Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, Cythera, Zacynthus, Cephallenia, Ithaca, Corcyra, and some part of Asia, that called Ionia, and the river Tigris, which forms the boundary between Media and Babylonia.

16 Now, of these allotted inheritances, Canaan the son of Ham, seeing the land by Lebanon, that it was both good and fertile and greatly different from his own land, tyrannically seized it, and drove out the heirs of Shem, and thus all the land of promise has been called the land of Canaan. And from there, therefore, the just judge afterwards gave it back to the sons of Shem, Israel, through Jesus the son of Nun, just as also to the

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τεσσαράκοντα, καὶ ἔστι κεχαλασμένος τὰ 13 ἴχνη αὐτοῦ φυλασσόμενα μόνον ἀνὰ μέσον Ἀσοὺρ καὶ Βαβυλῶνος. ἦν δὲ ευλγʹ.

Φάλεκ δὲ γενόμενος ἐτῶν ρλʹ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ῥαγαῦ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἔζησεν ἔτη σθʹ, καὶ ἀπέθανε ζήσας τὰ πάντα ἔτη τλθʹ. Γίνονται οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἔτη βσξβʹ, καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ ἕως τῆς συγχύσεως τῆς πυργοποιίας καὶ τῆς τελευτῆς Φάλεκ, ὅ ἐστι μερισμός, ἔτη φλςʹ. Καὶ οὕτω γίνεται διαμερισμὸς ἤτοι διασπορὰ τῶν υἱῶν Νῶε καὶ τῶν ἐξ αὐτῶν γεννηθέντων· διόπερ καὶ μέροπες ἐκλήθησαν ἀπό τε τῆς μεμερισμένης φωνῆς ἀπό τε τοῦ μερισμοῦ τῆς γῆς. ὁ μέντοι Σὴμ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἐλὰμ καὶ Ἀσοὺρ καὶ τὸν Ἀρφαξὰδκαὶ τὸν Λούδ, ὁ δὲ Χὰμ τὸν Χοὺς καὶ τὸν Μεσραῒμ καὶ τὸν Φοὺδ καὶ τὸν Χανάν, ὁ δὲ Ἰάφεθ τὸν Γάμερ καὶ τὸν Μαγὼγ καὶ τὸν Θηρὰν καὶ τὸν Ἰωΰαν καὶ τὸν Ἰεκτὰν καὶ τὸν Θόβελ καὶ τὸν Μοσὸχ καὶ τὸν Μαδαΐ, ἀφ' οὗ Μῆδοι γενόμενοι καὶ τῶν Βαβυλωνίων κρατήσαντες, ἡ χώρα Μηδία προσηγορεύθη κυρίως καὶ φερωνύμως.

Μετὰ γοῦν τὴν σύγχυσιν καὶ τὴν τοῦ πύργου διάλυσιν μεταστέλλονται οἱ τρεῖς υἱοὶ τοῦ Νῶε πάντας τοὺς ἐξ αὐτῶν γενομένους, καὶ διδόασιν αὐτοῖς ἔγγραφον τῶν τόπων τὴν κατανέμησιν, 14 ἥνπερ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς Νῶε παρειλήφασι, καὶ λαγχάνουσιν ἑκάστῳ καὶ ταῖς ἑκάστου φυλαῖς καὶ πατριαῖς τόπον καὶ κλίματα καὶ χώρας καὶ νήσους καὶ ποταμοὺς κατὰ τὴν ὑποκειμένην ἔκθεσιν, καὶ κατακληροῦνται τῷ μὲν πρωτοτόκῳ υἱῷ Νῶε Σὴμ ἀπὸ Περσίδος καὶ Βάκτρων ἕως Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Ῥινοκουρούρων τὰ πρὸςἀνατολήν, τῷ δὲ Χὰμ ἀπὸ Ῥινοκουρούρων ἕως Γαδείρων τὰ πρὸς νότον, τῷ δὲ Ἰάφεθ ἀπὸ Μηδίας ἕως Γαδείρων τὰ πρὸς βοῤῥᾶν. Αἱ δὲ λαχοῦσαι χῶραι τῷ μὲν Σὴμ εἰσὶν αὗται, Περσίς, Βακτριανή, Ὑρκανία, Βαβυλωνία, Κορδυαία, Ἀσσυρία, Μεσοποταμία, Ἀραβία ἡ ἀρχαία, Ἐλυμαΐς, Ἰνδική, Ἀραβία ηεὐδαίμων, κοίλη Συρία, Κομμαγηνὴ καὶ Φοινίκη πᾶσα καὶ ποταμὸς Εὐφράτης· τῷ δὲ Χὰμ Αἴγυπτος, Αἰθιοπία ἡ βλέπουσα κατ' Ἰνδούς, ἑτέρα Αἰθιοπία, ὅθεν ἐκπορεύεται ὁ ποταμὸς τῶν Αἰθιόπων, ἐρυθρὰ βλέπουσα κατ' ἀνατολάς, Θηβαΐς, Λιβύη ἡ παρεκτείνουσα μέχρι Κυρήνης, Μαρμαρίς, Σύρτις, Λιβύη ἄλλη, Νουμιδία, Μασσυρίς, Μαυριτανία ἡ κατέναντι Γαδείρων· ἐν δὲ τοῖς κατὰ βοῤῥᾶν τὰ παρὰ θάλασσαν ἔχει Κιλικίαν, 15 Παμφυλίαν, Πισιδίαν, Μυσίαν, Λυκαονίαν, Φρυγίαν, Καμαλίαν, Λυκίαν, Καρίαν, Λυδίαν, Μυσίαν ἄλλην, Τρωάδα, Αἰολίδα, Βιθυνίαν, τὴν ἀρχαίαν Φρυγίαν, καὶ νήσους ὁμοίως Σαρδανίαν, Κρήτην, Κύπρον, καὶ ποταμὸν Γειὼν τὸν καὶ Νεῖλον καλούμενον· τῷ δὲ Ἰάφεθ Μηδία, Ἀλβανία, Ἀρμενία μικρά τε καὶ μεγάλη, Καππαδοκία, Παμφλαγονία, Γαλατία, Κολχίς, Βόσπορος, Μαιῶτις, ∆έρβη, Σαρματίς, Ταυριανίς, Βασταρνίς, Σκυθία, Θρᾴκη, Μακεδονία, ∆αλματία, Μολοσσή, Θεσσαλία, Λοκρίς, Βοιωτία, Αἰτωλία, Ἀττική, Ἀχαΐα, Πελλήνη, ἡ καλουμένη Πελοπόννησος, Ἀρκαδία, Ἠπειρῶτις,Ἰλλυρίς, Λυχνῖτις, Ἀδριακή, ἐξ ἧς τὸ Ἀδριακὸν πέλαγος· ἔχειδὲ καὶ νήσους Βρεττανίαν, Σικελίαν, Εὔβοιαν, Ῥόδον, Χίον, Λέσβον, Κύθηραν, Ζάκυνθον, Κεφαλληνίαν, Ἰθάκην, Κέρκυραν, καὶ μέρος τι τῆς Ἀσίας, τὴν καλουμένην Ἰωνίαν, καὶ ποταμὸν Τίγριν τὸν διορίζοντα μεταξὺ Μηδίας καὶ Βαβυλωνίας.

16 Τούτων οὖν τῶν κληροδοτηθέντων ὁ τοῦ Χὰμ υἱὸς Χαναὰν ἰδὼν τὴν πρὸς τῷ Λιβάνῳ γῆν ὡς ἀγαθή τε καὶ εὔφορος καὶ κατὰ πολὺ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ διαλλάττουσα γῆς, τυραννικῶς καθήρπασεν αὐτήν, καὶ τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ Σὴμ κλήρους ἐξήλασε, καὶ οὕτω πᾶσα ἡ γῆ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας τοῦ Χαναὰν προσηγόρευται. κἀντεῦθεν τοίνυν ὁ δίκαιος κριτὴς μετὰ ταῦτα τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ Σὴμ υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ ἀπέδωκεν αὐτὴν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναυῆ, καθὼς καὶ τῷ