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An anonymous couple safely supports a swaddled infant beneath reed shade.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

1 Chronicles 2:34-35

Sheshan’s daughter and Jarha

Judah’s Families and the Line to David · 1 Chronicles 2

Story guide: Sheshan had daughters and an Egyptian servant named Jarha, whom he gave his daughter as wife; she bore Attai. This anonymous family portrait provides context for that recorded relationship. Faces, garments and domestic setting are artistic interpretations, not a staged wedding or invented episode.

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34Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name was Jarha.

35Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as a wife, and she bore Attai to him.

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