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ADOM, or Adam, a Town upon the Banks of the River Jordan. Some1 place it upon the Dead Sea, below the place where the Israelites passed the Jordan. Others place it much above, towards Scythopolis and Zarthan; and this is its true situation.
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Celler. Geogr. antiq. l. 3. c. 13. ↩
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