Genesis 22:24

Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

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KJV

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

ASV

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

YLT

and his concubine, whose name is Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.

DBT

And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.

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And his concubine, whose name was Reumah,.... Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the procreation of children; which was not thought either unlawful or dishonourable in those times such as was Hagar in Abraham's family: she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah, of whom we have no account elsewhere; only it may be observed, that here Maachah is the name of a man, which sometimes is given to a woman, 1Ki 15:13.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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His concubine - We borrow this word from the Latin compound concubina, from con, together, and cubo, to lie, and apply it solely to a woman cohabiting with a man without being legally married. The Hebrew word is פילגש pilegesh, which is also a compound term, contracted, according to Parkhurst, from פלג palag, to divide or share, and נגש nagash, to approach; because the husband, in the delicate phrase of the Hebrew tongue, approaches the concubine, and shares the bed, etc., of the real wife with her.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

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Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Genesis 16:3
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
Proverbs 15:25
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
Genesis 25:6
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Judges 8:31
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
Judges 19:1
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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The Testing of Abraham's Faith — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Proverbs 15:25
The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.
leads to
- Psalms 146:9
  The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Psalms 68:5–6
  A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Proverbs 12:7
  The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the house of the righteous will stand.
- Deuteronomy 10:17–18
  For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God, showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
- Proverbs 23:10
  Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Through
Genesis 25:6
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
leads to
- Genesis 21:14
  Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of…
- Judges 6:3
  Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
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Genesis 16:3
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
leads to
- Genesis 12:4–5
  So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

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