Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageAnd the families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GAnd the families of sofrim who lived at Yabetz: the Tirati, the Shim'ati, and the Sukhati. These are the Keini who came from Chamat, father of the house of Rechav.
KJV
King James VersionAnd the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
BSB
Berean Standard Bibleand the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Footnotes
This closing verse is one of the chapter's most remarkable. Three guilds of *sofrim* (scribes — custodians and copiers of sacred texts, the technologists of the written word) are embedded within Yehudah's genealogy, dwelling at Yabetz — a place-name that reappears famously in 1 Chronicles 4:9–10. That scribal guilds belong within the covenant family reflects the Chronicler's own world, in which textual preservation was a sacred calling equal to priestly service. More striking still: these scribes are identified as *Keini* (*Kenites*), descendants of Moses' father-in-law Jethro's clan (Judges 1:16; 4:11), attached to Israel since the wilderness. The house of *Rechav* (*Rechab*) — the Rechabites — appears in Jeremiah 35 as a model of multigenerational covenant faithfulness. The chapter ends not with a king or a warrior, but with faithful people of the written word — Kenite outsiders who became Judah's scribes, guardians of the covenant text itself. FOG preserves *sofrim* and *Rechav*; FOG Message uses 'scribes' and 'Rechab' for accessibility.
