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Numbers 26:38

Numbers 26:38

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The sons of Benjamin. These formed seven families, five named after sons, two after grandsons. The list in contains three names here omitted, and the rest are much changed in form. Them is still more divergence between these and the longer genealogies found in 1 Chronicles 7:6-12; 1 Chronicles 8:1-5 sq.

It is possible that the family of Becher (Genesis), who had nine sons (1 Chronicles), went under another name, because there was a family of Becherites in Ephraim (1 Chronicles 8:35); and similarly the family of the Ephraimite Beriah (1 Chronicles) may have ceded its name in favour of the Asherite family of Beriites (verse 44).

But it must be acknowledged that the various genealogies of Benjamin cannot be reconciled as they stand.

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