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These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.
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Mules or Hot Springs?
Scholars are divided on what Anah “found.” The traditional Jewish interpretation, followed by commentators like John Calvin, is that he discovered how to breed “mules.” However, most modern scholars, noting the rarity of horses at the time, follow a translation suggesting Anah found valuable “hot springs” in the desert, a significant discovery in a dry wilderness.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
אהלבמה 'ohŏlı̂ybâmâh — Oholibamah, “tent of the high place.” ענה ‛ǎnâh, ‘Anah, “answering.” צבעון …
19th Century
Anglican
Anah that found the mules. —Mules is the traditional rendering of the Jews; but as horses were at this date unknown in Palestine, …
16th Century
Protestant
This was that Anah that found the mules. Mules are the adulterous offspring of the horse and the ass. Moses says that Anah was the origina…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And these are the children of Zibeon The third son of Self, and who had two sons;
both Ajah and A…
The records in this chapter show the faithfulness of God to his promise to Abraham. Esau is here called Edom, that name which kept up the remembran…