OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 1:32

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The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

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Verse 32. Concubine. She was his lawful wife, but of an inferior degree, and such were called concubines. Challoner.—She has the title of wife, Genesis 25:1.—And the sons of Dadan, and so forth seems to be copied from Genesis, as the addition is not found in many Lat. MSS. no more than in the Hebrew or Septuagint Calmet.

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