ocr: Nebaioth of the Bible and the Nebayat of Assyrian records in the seventh century B.C.; these names apply to one of many Arabian tribes. It was probably during the course of the next two centuries that the Nabataeans began to move northward and westward out of 1 the desert and to settle in the southern part of Jordan, where the formerly strong Edomite state had already collapsed and where, under the lax rule of the Persians, sedentary occupation had practically ceased. But of these early migrations we know nothing; it is not until 312 B.C., - - 10 years after the death of Alexander, that the Na ...
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