But the same chapter also assigns to Sheba a different origin.

It couples him with Dedan, and sees in him a descendant of Ham, a kinsman of Egypt and Canaan.

Both genealogies are right.

They are geographical, not ethnic, and denote, in accordance with Semitic idiom, the geographical relationships of the races and nations of the ancient world.

Sheba belonged not only to south Arabia but to northern Arabia as well.