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The sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.
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How to Read Genealogies
Commentators note that while the text says "sons" of Appaim and Ishi, only one individual is named. This isn't an error. Scholars explain that the term "sons" in genealogies can be a convention that includes all future posterity, or it can refer to a whole clan that descended from one person.
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19th Century
Anglican
The Hezronites, who were sons of Pharez (1 Chronicles 2:5), and their three lines of descent: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan , &c.] Though they had each of them but one son, yet the…
Presbyterian
We have now come to the register of the children of Israel, that distinguished people, who were to dwell alone, and not be reckoned among the natio…
