| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - From the tablets it is clear also that dates were used quite frequently in payment of rent and of all kinds of debts (see Babylonian Expedition of University of Pennsylvania, ix.).The tree was very plentiful in Palestine in ancient times, but now is found only at the Lake of Gennesaret, near Jericho, and around the Dead Sea (Nowack, Lehrbuch der Hebr??ischen Arch??ologie, i. 62).
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