Mesopotamia

First named: Genesis 24:10

Region Mesopotamia Primeval History

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The land "between the rivers" Tigris and Euphrates, home to the earliest post-flood civilizations of Genesis 10-11 and, in a broader sense, the wider region Abraham's family originally came from before settling in Haran (Acts 7:2).

References: Genesis 24:10; Acts 2:9; Acts 7:2

People connected to Mesopotamia

Enoch (M) — in the line of Seth, who walked with God and was taken without dying
Genesis 5:22-24
Ham (M) — a son of Noah who came through the flood
Genesis 7:13
Lamech (M) — in the line of Cain, who boasted of sevenfold vengeance
Genesis 4:23-24
Methuselah (M) — grandfather of Noah and the longest-lived man in Scripture
Genesis 5:27

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