ZARAH, Son of Judah and Tamar. When his Mother was just upon the Point of being delivered, Zarah presented his Hand, and the Midwife tied a red Ribbon about it, saying, This will be the First-born. But the Child with-drawing his Hand again, his Brother was born first, and was called Pharez.1 Zarah had five 1 Chron. ii. 6.Sons, Ethan, Zimri, Heman, Calcol, and Dara.
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Gen. xxxviii. 28, 29. About the Year of the World 2277, before Christ 1723, before the Vulgar Æra 1727. ↩