Nahor's concubine Reumah also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. The sons of the concubine are listed after the sons of the wife — a structural parallel to the way the text has treated Hagar and Ishmael alongside Sarah and Isaac. The completeness of the genealogical record reflects the thoroughness of the covenant community's self-understanding: everyone is counted, the lines of concubines alongside the lines of wives. The application: the completeness of the biblical genealogies is a statement about the dignity of every person within the story — no branch is too minor to be named.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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