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Gen_4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.
Ver. 20. Adah bare Jabal.] Jabal, a good husband. Jubal, a merry Greek; whence the word iubilo in Latin, and our English jovial. Jabal, that dwelt in tents, and tended the herds, had Jubal to his brother, the father of hand and wind music. Jabal and Jubal, frugality and mirth, good husbandry and sweet content, dwell together. Virgil makes mention of a happy husbandman in his time, who
"Regum aequabat opes animis, seraque reversus
Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat inemptis."
- Georg.