In Caleb-ephratah] The LXX suggests that the true reading is 'Caleb went in unto Ephrath, the wife of his father Hezron' (see 1 Chronicles 2:19), 'who bare him Ashur,' etc. The union here implied was not in early times held to be incestuous, for an heir inherited his father's wives like the rest of his property: cp. 2 Samuel 16:21.

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