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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 46:10
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the sons of Simeon, etc.] Who was the second son of Jacob: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar; the first of these is called Nemuel, (<042612>Numbers 26:12 <130424>1 Chronicles 4:24); the third, Ohad, is omitted in the places referred to, he dying without children, as may be supposed, and so was not the head of any family; and the fourth, Jachin, is called Jarib, (<130424>1 Chronicles 4:24); and the fifth is called Zerah, in the above place, by a transposition of letters: and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; whom Simeon married, very probably after the death of his first wife, by whom he had the above five sons, or she was his concubine: many Jewish writers f1815 say, this was Dinah, married to a Canaanite, but this is impossible: according to the Targum of Jonathan, this Shaul was Zimri, who did the work of the Canaanites at Shittim, (<042514>Numbers 25:14), which is not at all likely, the distance of time will not admit of it.
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