1-Chronicles - 7:30



30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

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The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
The children of Aser were Jemna, and Jesua, and Jessui, and Baria, and Sara their sister.
The sons of Asher: Jimnah, and Jishvah, and Jishvi, and Beriah; Serah their sister.
The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishua, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
Son of Asher: Imnah, and Ishve, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.

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The son of Asher,.... Which, and his two grandsons born before Jacob went down to Egypt, are here reckoned as in Genesis 46:17 only it is here added Malchiel his second grandson:
who is the father of Birzavith; which Jarchi interprets, prince of a city of this name, which signifies pure oil; which it might have from the abundance of olives about it, Asher being a tribe which abounded with them, see Deuteronomy 33:24 though some of the Rabbins take it to be the name of a man, whose daughters, they say, as Jarchi observes, were very beautiful, having much oil to anoint with, and were married to kings and priests anointed with oil.

The sons and several families of Asher. - 1-Chronicles 7:30. The names of the four sons of Asher and that of their sister coincide with the statement of Genesis 46:17; but in Numbers 26:44-47, on the contrary, the name Ishuai does not occur among the families of Asher.

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