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Gen 38:5 — And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
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Entire Verse.   A. M. 2268. B.C. 1736
Shelah   Gen 38:11,26; Gen 46:12; Num 26:20; 1Ch 4:21
Chezib   Chezib is said, by Eusebius and Jerome, to have been situated near Adullam, and to be then uninhabited.
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Shelah
Gen 38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren [did]. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
Gen 38:26 And Judah acknowledged [them], and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Gen 46:12 And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.
Num 26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
1Ch 4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah [were], Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 38:5," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Gen/38/5.html>.

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