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Gen_25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that [is] before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: [and] he died in the presence of all his brethren.
Ver. 18. And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur.] A large tract and territory; but nothing so large as his posterity the Saracens’, called more rightly Hagarenes, {Psa_83:6} proved to be; whose name and empire notwithstanding is now swallowed up in the greatness of the Turkish empire; which laboureth with nothing more, than with the weightiness of itself. {a}
And he died.] Or, dwelt, as some read it. Compare Gen_16:12.
{a} Turk. Hist.