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Ibn Ezra on the Torah

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Chapter 9

Genesis 9

My bow: Behold, I have put my bow in the cloud now. And it's interpretation is not, as the Ga'on said, that it was there from the beginning.

Kush and Mitzrayim and Put are descendents of their father. And there are those who claim that Kushim are slaves because Noah cursed Ham; yet, they have forgotten that the first king after the deluge was from Kush and thus one should say that the head of the kingdom of Babylonia was from Kush.

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