The Lubims, the Sukkiims— The Lubims were a people of Lybia, which adjoined to Egypt, and are sometimes in Scripture called Phut, and sometimes Lubims, from the Arabic word Lub, which signifies dry or thirsty, as was the land which they inhabited. The Sukkiims were the people called Troglodites, because they dwelt in Troglais, caves and dens in the earth, on the coast of the Red Sea. The people called Cush, which we translate Ethiopians, were either inhabitants of a country on the south of Egypt, or the Scenitae of Arabia; for the name was common to both.

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