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dab, Nahshon, are six : and since Elisheba, the wife of Aaron 
Tvi, he T^ daUglltei ; Amminada b, and her sons Nadab and 
Aoinu, Eleazar and Ithamar, were made priests at the ordina- 
tion of the priesthood (Exod. xxviii. 1 ), three months after the 
Bxode, and therefore the youngest of the four was at least 
thirty years old we have seven,— Judah, Pharez, Hezron, Earn, 
Ammmadab, Elisheba, Nadab. And yet once more ; Judah, 
harez, Hezron, CheJ lub, Hur, Un, Bezaleel,— seven : for this 
last was, at the Exode, a man of sufficient standing to be put 
m charge of the whole artistic work of the tabernacle, 
ansnon, too, though two generations lower than Moses, must 
ave been, not a mere youth, but a man of weight and stand- 
ing ; for he was the prince or chiefman of the tribe of Judah, 
(NumL x 0 H? e at Exode 
u4 ‘ And Shelah was a grown man some years before Pharez 
was born (Gen. xxxviii. 14); so that his descendants, though 
notmng is recorded of this line, may well have been a gene- 
ration m advance of the latter; and so Judah may have been 
lepresented, through Shelah, by his eighth descent. The 
ap!^? ° f th .® tnb ® s a ; re not i m general, traceable in the 
genealogies, either by their own names, or by their fathers'; 
direction hOU W pr ° babIy have addi *i°nal evidence in this 
55. The lineage of Joshua, the sun of Nun, as given in 
_Chron. vn. 22—27, is the loftiest mountain in the way of 
Vr. Golenso s progress. He feels it, and labours hard to 
war° V6 n\ “ TV * se 9.-)- This he essays by three engines of 
I? 77 .-ih's.is an exception to the rule, which prevails 
universally [the italics are his] in the Pentateuch.'' Sup- 
th 1 * VV T e ', lfc 1S of e T ual authority. But it is not true, 
shown £ 6 w eS J 0t P universally I have above amply 
shown (2.) He throws overboard the Chronicles, as of no 
authority (3.) He asserts that “ the Book of Chronicles 
itself exhibits the rule of the Pentateuch in other cases '' 
Beva ppI 6 fp dUCeS \, But ' ° f these cases i two are Nahshon and 
Bezaleel, the one the sixth, the other the seventh, as shown 
r b j °J,% mstead of th ® fourtl b which he arbitrarily calls “ the 
oO. He then proceeds to undermine the statement in his 
Eisode. (Se^Geru xxxviit) Hezron > a liabe in arms at the 
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