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Jacob was the son of Matthan [13] and the father of Saint Joseph in the Genealogy of Jesus according to Sai Matthew.According to Sextus Julius Africanus, Heli and Jacob were step-brothers, and Heli died without having children, and his widow married his brother Jacob and bore him a child according to the law of Levirate Marriage his brother was legally the father of Saint Joseph as well. [14]
Geographic identifications for the Sons of Noah (Flavius Josephus, c. 100 AD); Ham's sons are in blue.Ham [a] (in Hebrew: חָם), according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was the second son of Noah [1] and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Abiezer or Abieezer is the name of three Biblical characters. The name means "My father is help". The characters are: The second of the three sons of Hammoleketh, the sister of Gilead, also called Jeezer (Numbers 26:30). He was the grandson of Manasseh (1 Chronicles 7:18). From his family Gideon sprang (Joshua 17:2; Judges 6:34 and 8:2).
Joseph (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ z ə f,-s ə f /; Hebrew: יוֹסֵף, romanized: Yōsēp̄, lit. 'He shall add') [2] [a] is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis.He was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's twelfth named child and eleventh son).
Jephthah's daughter, sometimes later referred to as Seila or as Iphis, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is recounted in Judges 11. The judge Jephthah had just won a battle over the Ammonites, and vowed he would give the first thing that came out of his house as a burnt offering to God. However, his only child, an unnamed daughter ...
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Genesis chapter 38 Judah and his wife have three children, Er, Onan, and Shelah. Er marries Tamar, but God kills him because he was wicked in His sight (Gen. 38:7). Tamar becomes Onan's wife in accordance with custom, but he too is killed after he refuses to father children for his older brother's childless widow, and spills his seed instead. [5]