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Manasseh (V)

V. MANASSEH, Son of Asom, was one of those who, after the Return from Babylon, separated themselves from the strange Wives that they had taken contrary to the Law, 1 Esdras ix. 33. Ezra mentions two Manassehs in the same Circumstances, one the Son of Pahath-moab, the other the Son of Hashum, see Ezra x. 30, 33.

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