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A boundary marker for the original Canaanite homeland in the Table of Nations of Genesis 10
TransjordanLasha appears once in Scripture as the eastern boundary marker for the original Canaanite homeland in the Table of Nations: "And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha" (Genesis 10:19). The name fixes the southeastern frontier of pre-Israelite Canaan, beyond the doomed cities of the Plain. Traditional Jewish identification (preserved by Jerome and the Targums) places Lasha at Callirrhoe, a hot-springs resort east of the Dead Sea visited by Herod the Great in his last illness, though the exact site remains uncertain.
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