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Chesib

Gen. xxxviii. 5.CHESIB. In Genesis, instead of these words, Judah’s Wife ceased to have Children, after the birth of Shelah: The Hebrew reads, She was at Chesib when she bare him. Chezib is the name of a place in Joshua, and Josh. xv. 44. Micah i. 14.in Micah. Chesib was a desart place near Adullam, in Eusebius’s time.

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