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Zephon (son of Gad)

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Numbers 26:15 names him among the sons of Gad; the family of the Zephonites came from him.

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NUM 26:15–18, engwebp
¹⁵The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
¹⁷of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
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Unresolved interpretation: The two lists of the sons of Gad

Genesis 46:16 names the sons of Gad Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi and Areli.
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- GEN 46:8–27, engwebp
  ⁸These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
  ⁹The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
  ¹⁰The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
  ¹¹The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
  ¹²The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
  ¹³The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
  ¹⁴The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
  ¹⁵These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
  ¹⁶The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
  ¹⁷The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
  ¹⁸These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
  ¹⁹The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
  ²⁰To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
  ²¹The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
  ²²These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
  ²³The son of Dan: Hushim.
  ²⁴The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
  ²⁵These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
  ²⁶All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
  ²⁷The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
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Numbers 26:15–17 lists the families of Gad from Zephon, Haggi, Shuni, Ozni, Eri, Arod and Areli, in both editions.
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- NUM 26:15–18, engwebp
  ¹⁵The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
  ¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
  ¹⁷of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
  ¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were counted of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
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Haggi, Shuni, Eri and Areli are the same; Ziphion and Zephon, Ezbon and Ozni, and Arodi and Arod differ. This collection does not merge the differently written names; it records them apart and does not decide whether they are the same men.

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Gad (son of Jacob) — Father of — Zephon (son of Gad)

Evidence: Numbers 26:15–18

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The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;

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Current wording: Numbers 26:15 names him among the sons of Gad; the family of the Zephonites came from him.
Cited evidence: NUM 26:15–18, engwebp
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