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Who was Korah's father?
Korah is listed as Esau's son and elsewhere among Eliphaz's dukes, creating a generational discrepancy if the name identifies the same person.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Minor
- A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.
The matching Duke Korah name shifts from Esau's son to Eliphaz's line, but separate people sharing the name remain unexcluded.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Korah is Esau's son by Aholibamah
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:5
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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