{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jub/jub69.htm","path":"bib/jub/jub69.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jub/jub69.htm","text":"20. And after Joseph perished, the sons of Jacob took unto themselves wives. The name of Reuben's wife is \u2019Ad\u00e2 1 and the name of Simeon's wife is \u2019Ad\u00eeb\u00e2\u2019a, a Canaanite; 1 and the name of Levi's wife is M\u00ealk\u00e2, 2 of the daughters of Aram, of the seed of the sons of Terah; and the name of Judah's wife, B\u00eatas\u00fb\u2019\u00eal, 3 a Canaanite; and the name of Issachar's wife, H\u00eazaq\u00e2; and the name of Zebulon's wife, \u2020N\u00ee\u2019\u00eem\u00e2n\u2020; 4 and the name of Dan's wife, \u2019\u00cagl\u00e2; and the name of Naphtali's wife, Ras\u00fb\u2019\u00fb, of Mesopotamia; and the name of Gad's wife, M\u00e2ka; and the name of Asher's wife, \u2019\u00cej\u00f4n\u00e2; and the name of Joseph's wife, Asenath, 5 the Egyptian; and the name of Benjamin's wife, \u2019\u00cejasaka. 21. And Simeon repented, and took a second wife from Mesopotamia as his brothers.\n172:1 Cf. Gen. xlvi. 10. According to xxx. 7 ff. such a marriage (with a Canaanitish woman) was punishable with death.\n172:2 Cf. Test. Levi xi. i.\n172:3 Cf. xli. 7. The name goes back to \"Bath-shua\" (i. e. \"daughter of Shua\"); cf. Test. Judah viii. 2, etc.; cf. Gen. xxxviii. 2.\n172:4 The name is doubtful. Some Ethiopic MSS. omit it.\n172:5 Cf. Gen. xli. 45.","title":"Book of Jubilees: The Book of Jubilees: The Wives of Jacob's Sons (xxxiv. 20-21)","type":"page"}