Re: Babel in the east or not?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 17, 1998, 0:03 |
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taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> Which is right? Going towards the east or going away from
> the east?
My Bible has a footnote stating that some ancient manuscripts have
"towards the east". In my mind, that's more probable. Babel = Babylon,
which was to the *east* of Israel.
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