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AnswerThe word gentile simply means 'foreigner' in Hebrew. As far as the Jews were concerned, there were only Jews and foreigners - even if the ancestors of the gentiles had arrived in Palestine before their own ancestors did. The gentiles who lived in much of Palestine in the first century CE were mainly the descendants of Canaanites, Philistines, Nabatean Arabs and some Greek and Roman immigrants.
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