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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia |
 | | (5) According to Gen., xi, 28 and 31, Abraham was a Babylonian from the city of Ur. |
 | | Several centuries later, when Palestine was no longer part of the Babylonian Empire, Abd-Hiba, the King of Jerusalem, in his intercourse with his over-lord of Egypt, wrote neither his own language nor that of Pharao, but Babylonian, the universal language of the day. |
 | | It is natural moreover that the tone of some Babylonian psalms should strongly remind us of some songs of Israel, where every psalmist boasted that he had as forefather a Babylonian: Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees. |
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