OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 38:5

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She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

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Verse 5. Sela. Juda gave the name of Her to his first-born, as the Hebrew shews. His wife gave names to the two latter.—Ceased; Hebrew casbi: “she died in bearing him,” as Aquila has it. Most commentators take the word for the name of a place mentioned, Joshua 15:44. “He (Juda) was at Casbi when she bare him.”

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