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- «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Bible#cite_note-7«/b»
«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Noah
«u»Phut «/u»«/b», son of Ham. Ancient authorities are fairly universal in identifying Phut with the «u»Libyans «/u» («i»Lebu«/i» and «i»Pitu«/i»), the earliest neighbors of Egypt to the west. (Although more recent theories have tried to connect Phut with «u»Phoenicia «/u», or the currently unidentified «u»Land of Punt «/u».)
«b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phut
Phut«/b» or «b»Put«/b» (Hebrew: «i» pû«/i»; «u»Septuagint «/u» «u»Greek «/u» «i»Phoud«/i») is the third son of «u»Ham «/u» (one of the «u»sons of Noah «/u»), in the biblical «u»Table of Nations «/u» («u»Genesis «/u» 10:6; cf. «u»1 Chronicles «/u» 1:8).
Put (or Phut) is associated with «u»Ancient Libya «/u» by many early writers. «u»Josephus «/u» writes: "Phut also was the founder of «u»Libya «/u», and called the inhabitants Phutites («i»Phoutes«/i»), from himself: there is also a river in the country of Moors which bears that name; whence it is that we may see the greatest part of the Grecian historiographers mention that river and the adjoining country by the appellation of Phut («i»Phoute«/i»): but the name it has now has been by change given it from one of the sons of «u»Mezraim «/u», who was called Lybyos." («u»AotJ «/u» Book 1:6/2). «u»Pliny the Elder «/u» «i»Nat. Hist.«/i» 5.1 and «u»Ptolemy «/u» «i»Geog.«/i» iv.1.3 both place the river «i»Phuth«/i» on the west side of Mauretania (modern Morocco). Ptolemy also mentions a city «i»Putea«/i» in Libya (iv.3.39).
A Libyan connection has likewise been inferred from «u»Nahum «/u» 3:9, where it is said that "Put and Lubim" were the helpers of «u»Egypt «/u». Other biblical verses consistently refer to the descendants of Put as warriors. In Jeremiah 46:9, they are again described as being supporters of Egypt. «u»Ezekiel «/u» mentions them three times - in 27:10, as supporters of Tyre (Phoenicia), in 30:5 again as supporting Egypt, and in 38:5, as supporters of «u»Gog «/u». The «u»Septuagint «/u» Greek (LXX) substitutes «i»Libues«/i» in Ezekiel where the «u»Hebrew Bible «/u» refers to «i»Put«/i». However, the LXX reads «i»Put«/i» in Isaiah 66:19, in place of «i»Pul«/i» in the Hebrew.
The Persian historian «u»Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari «/u» (c. 915) recounts a tradition that the wife of Put was named Bakht, a daughter of Batawil son of «u»Tiras «/u», and that she bore him the "«u»Copts «/u»".
The Libyan tribe of «i»p«/i» shows up in Egyptian records by the «u»22nd dynasty «/u», while a «u»Ptolemaic «/u» text from «u»Edfu «/u» refers to the «i»t3 n n3 p«/i» "the land of the Pitu". The word was later written in «u»Demotic «/u» as «i»P«/i», and as «i»Phaiat«/i» in «u»Coptic «/u», a name for Libya Aegypti, northwestern Egypt.
A fragment of «u»Nebuchadnezzar II «/u»'s annals mentions his campaign in 567 in Egypt, and defeating the soldiers of «i»Putu Yavan«/i», ie. Greek Libya («u»Cyrene «/u»). A multilingual stele from al-Kabr dating to the reign of «u»Darius I «/u» refers to the Put as the province of «i»Putiya«/i» («u»Old Persian «/u») and «i»Pu«/i» («u»Neo-Babylonian «/u»), where the equivalent text written in «u»Egyptian «/u» has «i»t3 «/i» "Libya".
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