Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 10:30

30. And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar , a Mount of the East.

These places were either 1. In India, where there are places called by Ptolomy and Pli[illegible: 1+ letters]y Maesae, and Saparum and Sabara. Or rather 2. In Arabia, where there was a noted Port called Musa and near it and Eastward from it a People called Sapharitae, and a Royal City called Saphar, from whence this famous and long Mountain doth here receive its Name. If it be said, Arabia is not East but South from Iudaea, it may be answered, 1. That Arabia, as it is East in respect of Aegypt, where the Jews long dwelt, and part of it is so to Iudaea also, so it is not seldome in Scripture reckoned as a part of the East Country, as appears from Gen. 25. 6, 18. Iudg. 6. 3. 1 King. 4. 30. Iob 1. 3. Isa. 11. 14. Ier. 49. 28. And Tacitus describing Iudaea, saith, it is bounded on the East by Arabia. 2. That this Mountain is said to be Easterly, not simply, but in respect of the City Mesa, on the East whereof Ptolomy placeth this Mountain, though he call it by another Name Climax; adde to this that Moses speaks of these places as known to the Jews, and therefore not so far distant from them as India, a place wholly unknown to them, and wherewith as yet they had no Communication. If it be further objected. That if these People had been so near and well known to the Jews, we should have had more mention of them in Stripture, I answer, there is mention of some of them, and for others, it is no wonder if by the following Wars among Nations, and mixtures and consusions of People, some of them were extirpated, and others lost their Names, though not their Beings, as oft hapned.