Bible Strands
Numbers 26:21
And these were the descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron and the Hamulite clan from Hamul.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The text records a tribal census taken by Moses in the plains of Moab, detailing the registered families of Judah before the Israelites cross the Jordan.
The words — מִשְׁפַּחַת (mishpaḥat) = clan and פֶּרֶץ (Perez) = Perez.
The thread — This lineage reappears in Ruth 4:18-22 as the ancestral line of David and is listed in Matthew 1:3 as an ancestor of Jesus.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to track how specific family names function as structural markers in Israel’s census records and later genealogies.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.