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Who was the father of Uz, Hul, and Gether?
Chronicles puts Uz, Hul, and Gether under Shem's sons, while Genesis places them one generation lower as Aram's children.
- 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 lists differ by one generation under immediate-parent readings, but the compact sons heading may cover descendants.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Uz Hul and Gether appear among Shem's sons
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
1 Chronicles 1:17
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Uz Hul and Gether are children of Aram
And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Genesis 10:23
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Genesis 10