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Genesis 46:10

in Genesis 46

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

KJV

And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

This verse in Genesis 46

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In the speech of Stephen (Ac 7:14) the number is stated to be seventy-five; but as that estimate includes five sons of Ephraim and Manasseh (1Ch 7:14-20), born in Egypt, the two accounts coincide.

This site's exposition

these are the names of the sons of Israel

on Genesis 46:8-11

The roll opens with Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, who loses the birthright in chapter 49 for what he did with his father's bed. Simeon and Levi stand next, the two who took Shechem by the sword, and Shaul is marked the son of a Canaanite woman. Few mothers are named in the roll.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the sons of Simeon,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

This proves that Jacob’s sons married Aramean, Egyptian, Edomite and Midianite women.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Genesis 46:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבְנֵ֣יand [the] sons of

    uveneiH11214930 times

  • שִׁמְע֗וֹןSimeon

    shimonH809544 times

  • יְמוּאֵ֧לJemuel

    yemuelH3223

  • וְיָמִ֛יןand Jamin

    veyaminH3226

  • וְאֹ֖הַדand Ohad

    veohadH161

  • וְיָכִ֣יןand Jakin

    veyakhinH3199

  • וְצֹ֑חַרand Zohar

    vetzocharH67145 times

  • וְשָׁא֖וּלand Shaul

    veshaulH7586402 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son

    ben-H11214930 times

  • הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽית׃the Canaanite [woman]

    hakenaanitH366973 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 2:1

    These were the sons of Israel:

    it leads to

    • Genesis 32:28

      Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

    • Revelation 7:5–8

      From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

    • Genesis 35:22–26

      While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:

    • Exodus 1:2–4

      Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

    • Genesis 35:18

      And with her last breath—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him Benjamin.

  • Through

    Exodus 6:15

    The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

    it leads to

  • Through

    Genesis 29:33

    Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 34:25

      Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

    • Genesis 49:5–6

      Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

About Genesis

Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jacob Goes to Egypt — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).