The following is a list of the races mentioned in the Bible, so far as they are Identified. They are classified according to modern ethnological principles. In Ge 10, cities are frequently classed as tribes or patriarchal personages.
I. Aryans (sons of Japheth, Ge 10).
If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."
Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
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