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Genesis 23:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Genesis 23:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 Then he left the side of his deceased wife and addressed the Hittites:[a]
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- 23:3 The Hittites: in the Bible the term is applied to several different groups—inhabitants of the second-millennium Hittite empire in Asia Minor and northern Syria, residents of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms in northern Syria in the first part of the first millennium, and (following Assyrian terminology) the inhabitants of Syria and Palestine. The third group is meant here.
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