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Numbers 26:19

Er and Onan were sons of Judah who died early on in Canaan. The sons of Judah by clans: Shelah and the Shelanite clan, Perez and the Perezite clan, Zerah and the Zerahite clan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and the Hezronite clan, Hamul and the Hamulite clan. These were the clans of Judah. They numbered 76,500.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Er;   Onan;   Thompson Chain Reference - Judah;   Onan;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Judah, the Tribe of;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Er;   Genealogy;   Onan;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Er;   Onan ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Er;   O'nan;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Judah, Territory of;   Moabite Stone;   Numbers, Book of;   Onan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Er;   Judah, Tribe of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yehudah: `Er and Onan; and `Er and Onan died in the land of Kana`an.
King James Version
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Lexham English Bible
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
English Standard Version
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
New Century Version
Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, died in Canaan.
New English Translation
The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan [were judged by God and] died in the land of Canaan.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Iudah, Er and Onan: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Contemporary English Version
There were 76,500 men from the tribe of Judah; they were from the clans of Shelah, Perez, Zerah, Hezron, and Hamul. Judah's sons Er and Onan had died in Canaan.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Y'hudah: First ‘Er and Onan, but ‘Er and Onan died in the land of Kena‘an.
Darby Translation
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Easy-to-Read Version
These are the family groups from the tribe of Judah: Shelah—the Shelanite family group; Perez—the Perezite family group; Zerah—the Zerahite family group. (Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, died in Canaan.)
George Lamsa Translation
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Good News Translation
The tribe of Judah: the clans of Shelah, Perez, Zerah, Hezron, and Hamul. (Two of Judah's sons, Er and Onan, had died in the land of Canaan.)
Christian Standard Bible®
Judah’s sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
Literal Translation
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Iuda, Er & Onan, which both dyed in the lade of Canaan.
American Standard Version
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Iuda, Er and Onan, and Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
King James Version (1611)
The sonnes of Iudah, were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Issachar according to their families: to Thola, the family of the Tholaites; to Phua, the family of the Phuaites.
English Revised Version
The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Berean Standard Bible
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Juda weren Her and Onan, whiche bothe weren deed in the lond of Canaan.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Judah [are] Er and Onan; and Er dieth -- Onan also -- in the land of Canaan.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Judah [were] Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
World English Bible
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
New King James Version
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
New Living Translation
Judah had two sons, Er and Onan, who had died in the land of Canaan.
New Life Bible
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan. But Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Judah, Er and Onan, - but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Juda, Her and Onan, who both died in the land of Chanaan.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Contextual Overview

5 The total number of the People of Israel: 601,730. God spoke to Moses: "Divide up the inheritance of the land based on population. A larger group gets a larger inheritance; a smaller group gets a smaller inheritance—each gets its inheritance based on the population count. "Make sure that the land is assigned by lot. "Each group's inheritance is based on population, the number of names listed in its ancestral tribe, divided among the many and the few by lot." These are the numberings of the Levites by clan: Gershon and the Gershonite clan, Kohath and the Kohathite clan, Merari and the Merarite clan. The Levite clans also included: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, the Korahite clan. Kohath was the father of Amram. Amram's wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born into the Levite family during the Egyptian years. Jochebed bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam to Amram. Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; however, Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized sacrifice in the presence of God . 6 The numbering of Levite males one month and older came to 23,000. They hadn't been counted in with the rest of the People of Israel because they didn't inherit any land. These are the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, the People of Israel counted in the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho. Not one of them had been among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest in the census of the People of Israel taken in the Wilderness of Sinai. For God had said of them, "They'll die, die in the wilderness—not one of them will be left except for Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun." 7Census on the Plains of Moab After the plague God said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, "Number the entire community of Israel by families—count every person who is twenty years and older who is able to serve in the army of Israel." Obeying God 's command, Moses and Eleazar the priest addressed them on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho: "Count off from age twenty and older." The People of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt: Reuben, Israel's firstborn. The sons of Reuben were: Hanoch and the Hanochite clan, Pallu and the Palluite clan, Hezron and the Hezronite clan, Carmi and the Carmite clan. These made up the Reubenite clans. They numbered 43,730. 8 The son of Pallu: Eliab. 9The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (These were the same Dathan and Abiram, community leaders from Korah's gang, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the Korah Rebellion against God . The Earth opened its jaws and swallowed them along with Korah's gang who died when the fire ate them up, all 250 of them. After all these years, they're still a warning sign. But the line of Korah did not die out.) 12The sons of Simeon by clans: Nemuel and the Nemuelite clan, Jamin and the Jaminite clan, Jakin and the Jakinite clan, Zerah and the Zerahite clan, Shaul and the Shaulite clan. These were the clans of Simeon. They numbered 22,200 men. 15The sons of Gad by clans: Zephon and the Zephonite clan, Haggi and the Haggite clan, Shuni and the Shunite clan, Ozni and the Oznite clan, Eri and the Erite clan, Arodi and the Arodite clan, Areli and the Arelite clan. These were the clans of Gad. They numbered 40,500 men. 19Er and Onan were sons of Judah who died early on in Canaan. The sons of Judah by clans: Shelah and the Shelanite clan, Perez and the Perezite clan, Zerah and the Zerahite clan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and the Hezronite clan, Hamul and the Hamulite clan. These were the clans of Judah. They numbered 76,500. 23The sons of Issachar by clans: Tola and the Tolaite clan, Puah and the Puite clan, Jashub and the Jashubite clan, Shimron and the Shimronite clan. These were the clans of Issachar. They numbered 64,300. 26The sons of Zebulun by clans: Sered and the Seredite clan, Elon and the Elonite clan, Jahleel and the Jahleelite clan. These were the clans of Zebulun. They numbered 60,500.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Er and Onan: Genesis 38:1-10, Genesis 46:12, 1 Chronicles 2:3-8

Reciprocal: Genesis 38:3 - Er Genesis 38:4 - Onan Genesis 38:7 - Er Genesis 38:10 - him also Numbers 1:26 - General Numbers 2:3 - Nahshon Numbers 10:14 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 26:10
Abimelech said, "But think of what you might have done to us! Given a little more time, one of the men might have slept with your wife; you would have been responsible for bringing guilt down on us."
Genesis 26:11
Then Abimelech gave orders to his people: "Anyone who so much as lays a hand on this man or his wife dies."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 19-22. And the sons of Judah were Er and Onan,.... And besides these he had Shelah, Pharez, and Zerah, from whom families sprang, but none from the two first: for

Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; where they were born; and that because of their sins, as the Targum of Jonathan adds, see Ge 38:7-10 so that there were but three families sprang from Judah, the Shelanites, Pharzites, and Zarhites; only the family of the Pharzites was divided into two families, the Hesronites and the Hamulites, so called from two sons of Pharez; the number of these families amounted to 76,500, so that there was an increase of 1900 since the last muster, which answers to Jacob's blessing, that he should be a praise among his brethren, Genesis 49:8.


 
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