Gen. x. 13.LUDIM, the Son of Mizraïm. Josephus affirmed, that the Descendants of Ludim had been a long Time extinct, and that they were destroyed in the Ethiopian Wars. The Jerusalem1 Paraphrast translates Ludim, the Inhabitants of the Mareotis, Part of Egypt: But Bochart maintains, that we should read, the Land of Meroe, or Meroitis. The Paraphrast Jonathan translates it, those of the Canton of Neut, or Neout, in Egypt; the Arabick, the Inhabitants of Tenezus, near Pelusium. Ezekiel places the Ludim with Cush and Phut, and elsewhere with Phut and Pharas, or perhaps Pathros. These People were in Egypt: But it is not easy to shew exactly where the Ludim dwelt.
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Translators’ note. The several Targums or Chaldee Paraphrases, as they are enumerated by Doctor Prideaux*, are* these following; that of Onkelos on the Pentateuch, that of Jonathan Ben-Uzziel on the Prophets, and another on the Law ascribed to the same Author: The Jerusalem Targum on the Law: The Tar- gum on the five lesser Books called the Megilloth*. The second Targum on* Esther*: The Targum of* Joseph the blind, and that on the first and second Book of Chronicles*. More particular Accounts of* each may be seen in the same Author. See his Connect. &c. Part ii. B. viii. ↩