John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 46:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the sons of Dan, Hushim.] He had but one son, wherefore the plural is put for the singular, (see <014607>Genesis 46:7,15); Aben Ezra thinks he had two sons, and that one of them was dead, and therefore not mentioned; but the other way best accounts for the expression; though, as Schmidt observes, the plural may be indefinitely put, and the sense be this, as for the sons of Dan, there was only one, whose name was Hushim. Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, as the following was another.

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