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Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah didn’t have many sons; therefore they became a fathers’ house in one reckoning.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Children. All together were not more than the children of each of the preceding, so that they only formed one class. Tirinus.—It would have been too burdensome for them to have performed the same service with those who were far more numerous: ( Bible.) therefore the sons of Semei were joined with the family of Leedan: ( Calmet.) or rather Jaus and Baria went together, as one family.—Counted. Hebrew “in one class, according to their father’s house.” Bible.
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