Genesis 22:24

Old Testament Law (Torah) ASV (1901)

What does Genesis 22:24 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 22:24 — American Standard Version

Context — Genesis 22

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, etc.] Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the procreation of children; which was not thought either unlawful or dishonourable in those times such as was Hagar in Abraham’s family: she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah, of whom we have no account elsewhere; only it may be observed, that here Maachah is the name of a man, which sometimes is given to a woman, (<111513>1 Kings 15:13).”
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