His eight sons divided among themselves the whole territory of the Kiev and Volhynia province.
[Footnote 1: A townlet in the government of Kiev.] [Footnote 2: See Vol.

I, p.

382.] [Footnote 3: The term is used in the Bible to denote a sum of money which "redeems" or "ransoms" a man from death, as in the case of a person guilty of manslaughter (Ex.22.

30) or that of the first-born son (Ex.13.

13; 34.