Genesis 10:16

10:16 the Jebusites,59 Amorites,60 Girgashites,61

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59	sn The Jebusites were the Canaanite inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem.
60	sn Here Amorites refers to smaller groups of Canaanite inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Palestine, rather than the large waves of Amurru, or western Semites, who migrated to the region.
61	sn The Girgashites are an otherwise unknown Canaanite tribe, though the name is possibly mentioned in Ugaritic texts (see G. J. Wenham, Genesis [WBC], 1:226).