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Who was Dedan's father?
Dedan and Sheba appear together under two different fathers, creating a genealogical discrepancy if the lists refer to the same pair.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The repeated Sheba-Dedan pair has different fathers, but the excerpts never establish that these are the same people across the two genealogical branches.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Raamah is named as Dedan's father
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
1 Chronicles 1:9
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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