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Meshech
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thumb|The World as known to the Hebrews. This 1854 map locates Meshech together with Gog and Magog, roughly in the southern Caucasus.

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Japheth
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Magog
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Genesis 10
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thumb|The World as known to the Hebrews. This 1854 map locates Meshech together with Gog and Magog, roughly in the southern Caucasus.

In the Bible, Meshech or Mosoch ( Mešeḵ "price" or "precious") is named as a son of Japheth in Genesis 10:2 and 1 Chronicles 1:5.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meshech” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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