According to Genesis 11:12, Arpachshad’s son is Shelah. However, the Septuagint (Genesis 10:24), Luke 3:36 and Jubilees 8:1 all state that Arpachshad had a son called Cainam, who in turn had a son called Shelah.According to http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/580, one interpretation is that ‘both are correct’, in that the sentence ‘became the father of’ in Genesis 11:12 could be interpreted as ‘ancestor of...
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According to Genesis 11:12, Arpachshad’s son is Shelah. However, the Septuagint (Genesis 10:24), Luke 3:36 and Jubilees 8:1 all state that Arpachshad had a son called Cainam, who in turn had a son called Shelah.
According to http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/580, one interpretation is that ‘both are correct’, in that the sentence ‘became the father of’ in Genesis 11:12 could be interpreted as ‘ancestor of’ or in this case, grandfather.
As Jubilees does go into a fair amount of detail on Cainam (giving less credence to the ‘copyist error’ reasoning), for now I am inserting him in the family tree. Personally, I suspect he was left out of Genesis because of political reasons.
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