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1 Chronicles 7:30

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What does 1 Chronicles 7:30 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
1 Chronicles 7:30 — American Standard Version

Context — 1 Chronicles 7

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
27Nun his son, Joshua his son.
28And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Azzah and the towns thereof;
29and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
30The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
31And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
32And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
33And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
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What do historical commentaries say?

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“Imnah: This variation only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Jimnah, or Yimnah. Gen 46:17; Num 26:44-46, Jimnah Ishuai: This variation is also attributable to the translator; the Hebrew being in both places Isui, or rather, Yishwi. Gen 46:17, Isui 1 Chronicles 7:32”
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Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch · Commentary on the Old Testament · 19th-century historical commentary
“The sons and several families of Asher. - Ch1 7:30. The names of the four sons of Asher and that of their sister coincide with the statement of Gen 46:17; but in Num 26:44-47, on the contrary, the name Ishuai does not occur among the families of Asher. Ch1 7:31-34 The sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel, are also to be found in Gen 46:17 and Num 26:45 as the heads of two families; but the further statement, "he (i.e., Malchiel) the father of Birzavith," is found only here. How ברזות, the Kethibh, is to be pronounced, cannot be with certainty determined. Gesen. in Thes. p. 239 makes it בּרזות, and considers the word to be the name of a woman; Bertheau, on the contrary conjectures that it is a…”
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