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Lybia

LYBIA, a Province of Egypt, which in our Opinion was peopled by the Descendants of Lehabim, the Son of Mizraim, Gen. x. 13. This Province reached from Alexandria as far as Cyrene, and perhaps farther still; for we do not know the ancient Limits of the Countrey of the Lehabim, or Lubim. Nahum, iii 9.

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