‏ Genesis 38:1-3

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it came As there cannot be above 23 years from the selling of Joseph, unto Israel's going down into Egypt; and as it is impossible that Judah should take a wife, and by her have three sons successively, and Shelah, the youngest, marriageable when Judah begat Pharez of Tamar, and Pharez be grown up, married, and have two sons, all within so short a period; Mr. Ainsworth conceives that the time here spoken of is soon after Jacob's coming to Shechem (Gen 33:1). We have accordingly adapted the chronology to correspond with that time.

turned Gen 19:2-3; Judg 4:18; 2Kgs 4:8; Prov 9:6, Prov 13:20

Adullamite An inhabitant of Adullam, a city of Canaan, afterwards given to Judah, situated in the southern part of that tribe, west of Hebron. Josh 12:15, Josh 15:35; 1Sam 22:1; 2Sam 23:13; Mic 1:15

saw Gen 3:6, Gen 6:2, Gen 24:3, Gen 34:2; Judg 14:2, Judg 16:1; 2Sam 11:2; 2Cor 6:14

Shuah Gen 46:12; 1Chr 2:3, Shua

took Gen 6:4, Gen 24:3

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Er Gen 46:12; Num 26:19

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