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Heth

HETH, the father of the Hittites, was the eldest son of Canaan, and dwelt southward of the Promised Land, at Hebron and thereabouts. Ephron, an inhabitant of Hebron, was of the race of Heth, and this whole city in Abraham’s time was peopled by the children of Heth. There are some, who maintain, that there was a city called Heth; but we find no footsteps of it in the Scripture.

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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Heth,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/h/heth/.

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