Genesis 46:10

(10) Simeon has six sons, namely

Num_26:12-13. 1Ch_4:24.

Jemuel,Nemuel,Nemuel,Jamin,Jamin,Jamin,Ohad,(omitted)(omitted)Jachin,Jachin,Jarib,Zohar,Zerah,Zerah,Shaul.Shaul.Shaul.

Jewish tradition represents Shaul as being really the son of Dinah by a Canaanite father, Shechem, but as adopted by Simeon to save his sister’s honour, yet with a note that he was of half Canaanitish blood.

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10. The same as Exo_6:15. In Num_26:12 ff., and in i Chron., Ohad is omitted, possibly through similarity to Zohar.

Jamin] In 1Ch_2:27 Jamin is a descendant of Hezron, the son of Judah. “Jamin” = “right hand” (cf. Gen_35:18), and the name indicates a Simeonite clan in the south of Judah.

Zohar] In Num_26:13, 1Ch_4:24, Zerah. See Gen_23:8, the father of Ephron, and Gen_36:17.

the son of a Canaanitish woman] A note recording the tradition of a well-known case, in which the tribe of Simeon had assimilated a Canaanite clan. See Gen_36:37.

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And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. From these sprung the priests and Levites, see Num 3:1.

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Genesis 46:12

gen 46:12

gen 46:12

gen 46:12And the sons of Judah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez,

and Zarah,.... Five of them:

but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and so did not go with Jacob into Egypt; and which is observed that they might not be reckoned among them, though it was proper to take notice of them in the genealogy:

and the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul; some think that these could not be born in Canaan, but in Egypt; and that they are mentioned among those that went down to Egypt, because they went there in the loins of their father, and to supply the places of Er and Onan, who died before, and have the honour to be here named, because they might be the first of Jacob's great grandchildren born there; though others suppose that Pharez was at this time fourteen years of age, and instances are given of some, who before that age have been fathers of children; the difficulty is not easily solved: the Targum of Jonathan expressly says,"Shelah and Zarah did not beget children in Canaan, but there were two sons of Pharez who went down into Egypt, Hezron and Hamul.''

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Jamuel. Numbers xxvi. 12, he is called Namuel. --- Jachin is Jarid, 1 Paralipomenon iv. 24. (Calmet)

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Ohad is not mentioned in those parallel places, because he was then dead, and that without issue.

The son of a Canaanitish woman; which is here mentioned as a brand upon him, and as an intimation that the rest of them, except Judah, married to persons of a better race.

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And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, of El" (Gesenius, Murphy); in 1Ch_4:24, Nemuel and Jamin, Hand" (Gesenius, Murphy) and Ohad, together" (Gesenius, Murphy)and Jachin, God strengthens" (Gesenius), "He shall establish" (Murphy), or Jarib (1Ch_4:24) and Zohar, (Gesenius, Murphy); named Zerah (1Ch_4:24) and Shaul, for" (Gesenius)the son of a Canaanitish woman. The wives of the other sons, except Judah, were probably from Mesopotamia.

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בן הכנענית THE SON OF THE CANAANITISH WOMAN — means the son of Dinah, who had been associated with a Canaanite (Shechem). When they (her brothers) had killed Shechem, Dinah refused to leave the city until Simeon swore to her that he would marry her and regard the child she was about to bear as his own (cf. Genesis Rabbah 80:11).

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ושאול בם הכנענית, it appears that all of Yaakov’s sons abided by his aversion to intermarry with Canaanites. Even Shimon also honoured this tradition. However, after he had married a woman who was not a Canaanite and had had children by her, he married an additional wife who was a Canaanite. Shaul was a son of that second wife of his. Seeing that this had been a breach of the tradition, the Torah alludes to it in considering this son as the “son of the Canaanite woman.” Our sages on 34,26 took the view that Shimon had taken pity on his sister Dinah who had been raped by a Canaanite, and married her and the son from the rape was the one named Shaul. (based on Bereshit Rabbah 80,11)

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