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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 10:11/אבן עזרא על בראשית י׳:י״א

אוטעם מן הארץ ההיא יצא אשור. הוא בן יפת, וזה היה אחר הפלגה, והמלך אשר מלך על בבל בתחלה היה נמרוד, ובעל סדר עולם פירש, כי בימיו נפלגה הארץ שהוא היה מלך על השבעים:

1[OUT OF THAT LAND WENT FORTH ASSHUR.] Asshur was the son of Japheth.⁷ The events related in this verse took place after the dispersion following the building of the Tower of Babel. Nimrod was the first king over Babel.⁸ According to Seder Olam, Nimrod was king over the seventy who built the tower, and it was in his time that the dispersion took place.⁹. Krinsky points out that there are many citations quoted in the early sources from this work that are missing in our edition of the Seder Olam. From the fact that Nimrod was king during the time of the dispersion we see that what Asshur did happened later.