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Kemuel (23)

23.KEMUEL, the third Son of Nahor.

Moses says, that he was the Father of the Gen. xxii. 21.Syrians, or rather of Aram. He had a Son of this Name, or he had a Son who was surnamed the Syrian or Aramite; for the Nation of the Syrians was derived from Aram, one of the Sons of Shem. Kemuel may have given his Name to the Kamilites, a People of Syria lying Westward of the Euphrates.

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