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Mesopotamia, as well as thereafter at least to the godly Job and his friends in Arabia. Genesis 10:9 & 11:5-9 cf. Job 1:6-21 & 2:1-7 & 12:9 & 38:1 & 40:1-6 & 42:1-12.
The name of God Jehovah was known also to the Pre-Israelites Abraham and Lot and Eliezer of Damascus and Abraham’s wife Sarah and Hagar the Egyptian, as well as even to the ungodly King of Sodom and to Hagar’s son Ishmael (whom Muslims claim to be an Arabian ancestor of Muhammad). Genesis 12:1-17; 13:4-18; 14:22; 15:1-18; 16:2-13; 17:1-26; 18:1-19 and 19:13-27.
